LEADER 04343nam 2200757Ia 450 001 9910815314503321 005 20241010170315.0 010 $a1-4529-4720-1 010 $a0-8166-8017-5 035 $a(CKB)2670000000241827 035 $a(EBL)1025586 035 $a(OCoLC)811507036 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000720897 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11467347 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000720897 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10687422 035 $a(PQKB)10490217 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001178052 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1025586 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29913 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1025586 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10602342 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL525856 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000241827 100 $a20120130d2012 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aImperfect unions $estaging miscegenation in U.S. drama and fiction /$fDiana Rebekkah Paulin 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (345 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8166-7099-4 311 $a0-8166-7098-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMachine 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. 330 $a" Imperfect Unions examines the vital role that nineteenth- and twentieth-century dramatic and literary enactments played in the constitution and consolidation of race in the United States. Diana Rebekkah Paulin investigates how these representations produced, and were produced by, the black-white binary that informed them in a wide variety of texts written across the period between the Civil War and World War I--by Louisa May Alcott, Thomas Dixon, J. Rosamond Johnson, Charles Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, William Dean Howells, and many others. Paulin's "miscegenated reading practices" reframe the critical cultural roles that drama and fiction played during this significant half century. She demonstrates the challenges of crossing intellectual boundaries, echoing the crossings--of race, gender, nation, class, and hemisphere--that complicated the black-white divide at the turn of the twentieth century and continue to do so today. Imperfect Unions reveals how our ongoing discussions about race are also dialogues about nation formation. As the United States attempted to legitimize its own global ascendancy, the goal of eliminating evidence of inferiority became paramount. At the same time, however, the foundation of the United States was linked to slavery that served as reminders of its "mongrel" origins. "--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMiscegenation (Racist theory) in literature 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMultiracial people in literature 606 $aRace relations in literature 606 $aRace in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 10$aMiscegenation (Racist theory) in literature. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 10$aMultiracial people in literature. 615 0$aRace relations in literature. 615 0$aRace in literature. 676 $a810.9/355 686 $aLIT004020$aLIT013000$aSOC031000$2bisacsh 700 $aPaulin$b Diana Rebekkah$01651320 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815314503321 996 $aImperfect unions$94001193 997 $aUNINA