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Journal of transatlantic studies, 2016-04, Vol.14 (2), p.200-211
Ort / Verlag
Cham: Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2016
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SpringerLink
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Drawing from recent work in 'thing theory', this essay examines the significance of 'things' in Italian-American immigrant texts, focusing on narratives and photographs from 1880 to 1924. It explores the special importance of 'things' such as clothing that enable bodily transformation, constituting a vehicle through which new immigrants' marginal racial status - their 'probationary whiteness' - could be negotiated. The essay reads narrative depictions of 'things' as means of racial and national 'assimilation' against counterdepictions of objects brought from 'home' that register how, in Peter Stallybrass' words, 'history, memory and desire [can be] materialized in objects that are touched and worn and loved'.