1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459917803321

Autore

Salih Sara

Titolo

Representing mixed race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition era to the present / / Sara Salih

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-91321-1

1-136-91322-X

1-283-03777-7

9786613037770

0-203-84349-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; ; v. 30

Disciplina

820.9/352905

Soggetti

English literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Jamaican literature - History and criticism

Race in literature

Racially mixed people in literature

Racially mixed people in motion pictures

Racially mixed people - Legal status, laws, etc

Racially mixed people - Race identity

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; 1 Introduction: The Mulatto in Law and Literature; 2 Pre-Emancipation Stories of Race: Marly and The Woman of Colour; 3 Legitimacy, Illegitimacy and Citizenship in the Nineteenth Century: Dinah Craik's Olive and Richard Hill's Lights and Shadows; 4 Mulattos in the Contact Zone: Mary Seacole and Ozias Midwinter; Coda: Modern Mulattos: Mona Lisa and The Crying Game; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This study considers cultural representations of ""brown"" people in Jamaica and England alongside the determinations of race by statute from the Abolition era onwards. Through close readings of contemporary fictions and ""histories,"" Salih probes the extent to



which colonial ideologies may have been underpinned by what might be called subject-constituting statutes, along with the potential for force and violence which necessarily undergird the law. The author explores the role legal and non-legal discourse plays in disciplining the brown body in pre- and post-Abolition colonial contexts,

2.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN00010216

Autore

Khader, Bichara

Titolo

L'Europe et le monde arabe : cousins, voisins / Bichara Khader

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris, : Publisud ; Ottignies, : Quorum, stampa 1992

ISBN

28-660-0644-5

Descrizione fisica

254 p. ; 22 cm.

Soggetti

Europa e Mondo arabo

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia