Unbecoming Americans [electronic resource] : writing race and nation from the shadows of citizenship, 1945-1960 / Joseph Keith.

Neither citizen nor alien: rewriting the immigrant bildungsroman across the borders of empire in Carlos Bulosan's America is in the heart
The epistemology of un-belonging: Richard Wright's The outsider and the politics of secrecy
Richard Wright's cosmopolitan exile: race, decolonization and the dialogics of modernity
The undesirable alien and the politics of form: telling untold tales in C.L.R. James's mariners, renegades and castaways
Talking back to the state: Claudia Jones's radical forms of alienage
Conclusion: An empire of alienage.