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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821226303321

Autore

Raimon Eve Allegra <1957->

Titolo

The "tragic mulatta" revisited : race and nationalism in nineteenth-century antislavery fiction / / Eve Allegra Raimon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, 2004

ISBN

0-8135-5989-8

0-8135-3711-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

x, 202 p

Disciplina

813/.3093522

Soggetti

American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Race in literature

Nationalism and literature - United States - History - 19th century

African American women in literature

Antislavery movements in literature

Multiracial women in literature

Tragic, The, in literature

Nationalism in literature

Slavery in literature

Women in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Reading Miscegenation -- Chapter 1: Of Romances and Republics in Lydia Maria Child's Miscegenation Fiction -- Chapter 2: Revising the "Quadroon Narrative" in William Wells Brown's Clotel -- Chapter 3: Resistant Cassys in Richard Hildreth's The Slave and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Chapter 4: Public Poor Relief and National Belonging in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig -- Coda: The "Tragic Mulatta" Then and Now -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.