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Reforming Fictions: Native, African, and Jewish American Women's Literature and Journalism in the Progressive Era
Ist Teil von
Legacy, 2002, Vol.18 (2), p.249
Ort / Verlag
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2002
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
For [Carol J. Batker], the progressive era is central to the understanding of these women journalists' and novelists' dialogue with each other, as well as to the bridges formed between ethnic groups. This period's importance lies in the work done by women in reform institutions centrally concerned with domesticity as well as women's self-definition and labeling. Batker sees the specific struggles of congressional control over Native American resources, disenfranchisement and lynching, and immigration limitations and citizenship requirements as connected to the larger political struggles faced by ethnic groups. The strategies used by the activists and political leaders of ethnic communities -- acculturation, racial uplift, assimilation, ethnocentric education, and a general "Americanization" -- are simultaneously adopted and critiqued by the writers Batker examines. Ultimately, the dialogue between journalists, novelists, and communities presented in this text exposes the profound exclusionary practices of the United States government, the nation's inability to live up to its classification as a democracy, and the hegemony of ethnocentric ideology.