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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777577503321

Autore

Rosenthal Debra J. <1964->

Titolo

Race mixture in nineteenth-century U.S. and Spanish American fictions [[electronic resource] ] : gender, culture, and nation building / / Debra J. Rosenthal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2004

ISBN

979-88-908785-0-2

0-8078-7595-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (195 p.)

Disciplina

813/.3093556

Soggetti

American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Miscegenation in literature

Spanish American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Comparative literature - American and Spanish

Comparative literature - Spanish American and American

Racially mixed people in literature

Race relations in literature

Slavery in literature

Racism in literature

Race in literature

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 (p. [157]-177) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Race mixture and the representation of Indians in the United States and the Andes -- Temperance and miscegenation in Whitman's Franklin Evans -- Cuban slave fiction : race mixture in Sab -- Floral counterdiscourse : miscegenation, ecofeminism, and hybridity in Lydia Maria Child's Romance of the republic -- The white blackbird : miscegenation, genre, and the tragic mulatta in Howells, Harper, and The babes of romance.

Sommario/riassunto

Race mixture has played a formative role in the history of the Americas, from the western expansion of the United States to the political consolidation ofLatin America. This text examines 19th-century authors in the United States and Spanish America who struggled to give



voice to contemporary dilemmas about interracial sexual and cultural mixing.