04317nam 2200757Ia 450 991081531450332120200520144314.01-4529-4720-10-8166-8017-5(CKB)2670000000241827(EBL)1025586(OCoLC)811507036(SSID)ssj0000720897(PQKBManifestationID)11467347(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000720897(PQKBWorkID)10687422(PQKB)10490217(StDuBDS)EDZ0001178052(MiAaPQ)EBC1025586(MdBmJHUP)muse29913(Au-PeEL)EBL1025586(CaPaEBR)ebr10602342(CaONFJC)MIL525856(EXLCZ)99267000000024182720120130d2012 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrImperfect unions staging miscegenation in U.S. drama and fiction /Diana Rebekkah Paulin1st ed.Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press20121 online resource (345 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-7099-4 0-8166-7098-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Machine generated contents note: Contents Introduction. Setting the stage: The Black-white binary in an imperfect union -- Under the covers of forbidden desire: interracial unions as surrogates -- Clear definitions for an anxious world: late nineteenth-century surrogacy -- Staging the unspoken terror -- The remix: Afro-Indian intimacies -- The futurity of miscegenation -- Conclusion: the "sex factor"and twenty-first century stagings of miscegenation." Imperfect Unions examines the vital role that nineteenth- and twentieth-century dramatic and literary enactments played in the constitution and consolidation of race in the United States. Diana Rebekkah Paulin investigates how these representations produced, and were produced by, the black-white binary that informed them in a wide variety of texts written across the period between the Civil War and World War I--by Louisa May Alcott, Thomas Dixon, J. Rosamond Johnson, Charles Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, William Dean Howells, and many others. Paulin's "miscegenated reading practices" reframe the critical cultural roles that drama and fiction played during this significant half century. She demonstrates the challenges of crossing intellectual boundaries, echoing the crossings--of race, gender, nation, class, and hemisphere--that complicated the black-white divide at the turn of the twentieth century and continue to do so today. Imperfect Unions reveals how our ongoing discussions about race are also dialogues about nation formation. As the United States attempted to legitimize its own global ascendancy, the goal of eliminating evidence of inferiority became paramount. At the same time, however, the foundation of the United States was linked to slavery that served as reminders of its "mongrel" origins. "--Provided by publisher.American literature19th centuryHistory and criticismMiscegenation in literatureAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory19th centuryLiterature and societyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryRacially mixed people in literatureRace relations in literatureRace in literatureAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Miscegenation in literature.American literatureHistory and criticism.Literature and societyHistoryLiterature and societyHistoryRacially mixed people in literature.Race relations in literature.Race in literature.810.9/355LIT004020LIT013000SOC031000bisacshPaulin Diana Rebekkah1651320MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815314503321Imperfect unions4001193UNINA