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Rita
Keresztesi
Email Dr. Keresztesi at ritak@ou.edu
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| Rita Keresztesi’s
research and teaching focus primarily on 20th Century American
literature and culture with an emphasis on issues of ethnicity, race,
and class. Her interests also include theory, cultural studies,
contemporary North American culture (particularly visual culture and
the politics of power), theories of modernity and postmodernity, and
the politics and poetics of globalization and neocoloniality. Her
articles and publications include: the English translation of an early
Hungarian-language essay of György Lukács, "Aesthetic
Culture, " with an Introduction by Tyrus Miller, in Yale Journal
of Criticism 11 (1998); “Writing Culture and Performing Race in
Mourning Dove’s Cogewea, The Half-Blood (1927)” in Literature and
Racial Ambiguity, edited by Teresa Hubel and Neil Brooks (Amsterdam:
Rodopi, 2002); and “Romancing the Borderlands: Josephina Niggli’s
Mexican Village ” in Doubled Plots: Romance and History,
edited by Susan Strehle and Mary Paniccia Carden (Jackson: University
Press of Mississippi, 2003). Her book, Strangers at Home: American
Ethnic Modernism between the World Wars, was published by the
University of Nebraska Press in Fall 2005. She is also affiliated with
the Film and Video Studies Program here at the University of Oklahoma.
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