Books by Lori Harrison-Kahan
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This award-winning article introduces turn-of-the-twentieth-century Jewish American writer Miriam... more This award-winning article introduces turn-of-the-twentieth-century Jewish American writer Miriam Michelson to MELUS readers. Although Michelson has been overlooked by scholars of American literature, we argue that she is an important voice in multi-ethnic women’s writing of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century West. In the essay, we position Michelson alongside Edith Eaton (Sui Sin Far), another long neglected woman writer. Like Eaton’s, the recovery of Michelson’s fiction and journalism builds on and complicates our current understanding of American literary history by adding the voice of an underrepresented minority writer. We show that Michelson’s work offers a rich archive for scholars and teachers of women’s writing and cross-ethnic studies. We also demonstrate that Michelson’s fiction is an important resource for scholars of Jewish American literature and culture, who, in focusing on the immigrant experience in the New York ghetto, have largely ignored the Jewish experience on the multi-ethnic Western frontier. This article also serves as an introduction to the accompanying text, “In Chy Fong’s Restaurant,” a chapter from Michelson’s 1905 novel A Yellow Journalist. “In Chy Fong’s Restaurant” features the book’s main character, Rhoda Massey, a white journalist, going under cover--or passing--as a Chinese prostitute in order to report on corruption in Chinatown. Her plan is thwarted when a white missionary, not realizing her disguise, kidnaps Rhoda in an effort to save her soul. As we argue in this essay, “In Chy Fong’s Restaurant” offers a fascinating commentary on cross-racial and gendered power dynamics in turn-of-the-twentieth-century San Francisco.
The American Historical Review, 2016
American Jewish History, 2015
MFS Modern Fiction Studies, 2005
MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S., 2012
Jewish Social Studies, 2011
Tulsa Studies in Womens Literature, 2009
... 20 But Jimoh focuses largely on content rather than form. ... Resolving not to sit in her roo... more ... 20 But Jimoh focuses largely on content rather than form. ... Resolving not to sit in her room and hide, Helga Crane intends to catch the train and ride, thus protesting the gender and economic constraints on black women's movement. ...
Melus: Multi-ethnic Literature of The U.s., 2012
Legacy, Jan 1, 2004
... characters that links them in their performances of identity and speaks to the intersections ... more ... characters that links them in their performances of identity and speaks to the intersections of racial and sexual difference in The House of Mirth. ... As Gail Bederman has shown, turn-of-the-century efforts to construct a civilized womanliness by early feminist writers involved a call to ...
Melus, Jan 1, 2005
Imitation of Life, one of the classic narratives of racial passing, originated as a 1933 novel by... more Imitation of Life, one of the classic narratives of racial passing, originated as a 1933 novel by Jewish writer Fannie Hurst, but it is perhaps best known as the 1959 melodrama directed by Douglas Sirk.1 In the sob-inducing finale of the Sirk film, the prodigal black daughter, who ...
MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, Jan 1, 2005
Modern Language Studies, Jan 1, 2002
... However, the culture of the novel's time period in fact testifies to the com... more ... However, the culture of the novel's time period in fact testifies to the com-plexity of identity, which was experienced in terms more complicated than "black and white." Queer readings of Passing, like McDowell's, do not simply co-opt the text for contemporary political and ...
Modern Drama, Jan 1, 2010
In Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern, Jayna Brown moves us well... more In Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern, Jayna Brown moves us well beyond that eroticizing gaze. Promising access to the "self" beneath the "falsely-smiling face," Brown's study divines the stories of the real-life women who were at once ...
Modern Drama, Jan 1, 2007
Publikationsansicht. 23169846. Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1... more Publikationsansicht. 23169846. Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 18501910 (review) (2007). Harrison-Kahan, Lori. Abstract. Modern Drama - Volume 50, Number 2, Summer 2007. Details der Publikation. ...
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