03023nam 2200685Ia 450 991045750690332120200520144314.097866120723381-282-07233-10-253-11045-9(CKB)1000000000362399(EBL)255637(OCoLC)475970500(SSID)ssj0000108894(PQKBManifestationID)11129574(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000108894(PQKBWorkID)10044011(PQKB)10502947(MiAaPQ)EBC255637(OCoLC)66144835(MdBmJHUP)muse16661(Au-PeEL)EBL255637(CaPaEBR)ebr10118515(CaONFJC)MIL207233(EXLCZ)99100000000036239920040407d2004 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBarriers between us[electronic resource] interracial sex in nineteenth-century American literature /Cassandra JacksonBloomington Indiana University Pressc20041 online resource (160 p.)Blacks in the diasporaDescription based upon print version of record.0-253-21733-4 0-253-34511-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-138) and index.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; IndexThis 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 mulattoBlacks in the diaspora.American fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismRacially mixed people in literatureMiscegenation in literatureRace in literatureElectronic books.American fictionHistory and criticism.Racially mixed people in literature.Miscegenation in literature.Race in literature.813/.3093552Jackson Cassandra1972-852363MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457506903321Barriers between us1903418UNINA