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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784580103321

Autore

Jackson Cassandra <1972->

Titolo

Barriers between us [[electronic resource] ] : interracial sex in nineteenth-century American literature / / Cassandra Jackson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2004

ISBN

9786612072338

1-282-07233-1

0-253-11045-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 p.)

Collana

Blacks in the diaspora

Disciplina

813/.3093552

Soggetti

American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Racially mixed people in literature

Miscegenation 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. [133]-138) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; TOC; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1.The Last of the Mohicans; 2. A Land without Names; 3. Reconstructing America in Lydia Maria Child's...; 4. Doubles in Eden; 5. ""I will gladly share with them my richer heritage""; Epilogue: Formulating a National Self; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This provocative book examines the representation of characters of mixed                African and European descent in the works of African American and European American                writers of the 19th century. The importance of mulatto figures as agents of                ideological exchange in the American literary tradition has yet to receive sustained                critical attention. Going beyond Sterling Brown's melodramatic stereotype of the                mulatto as ""tragic figure,"" Cassandra Jackson's close study of nine works                of fiction shows how the mulatto