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Autore: | Rosenthal Debra J. <1964-> |
Titolo: | Race mixture in nineteenth-century U.S. and Spanish American fictions : gender, culture, and nation building / / Debra J. Rosenthal |
Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2004 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (195 p.) |
Disciplina: | 813/.3093556 |
Soggetto topico: | American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
Miscegenation (Racist theory) in literature | |
Spanish American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism | |
Comparative literature - American and Spanish | |
Comparative literature - Spanish American and American | |
Racially mixed people in literature | |
Race relations in literature | |
Slavery in literature | |
Racism in literature | |
Race in literature | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-177) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Race mixture and the representation of Indians in the United States and the Andes -- Temperance and miscegenation in Whitman's Franklin Evans -- Cuban slave fiction : race mixture in Sab -- Floral counterdiscourse : miscegenation, ecofeminism, and hybridity in Lydia Maria Child's Romance of the republic -- The white blackbird : miscegenation, genre, and the tragic mulatta in Howells, Harper, and The babes of romance. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Race mixture has played a formative role in the history of the Americas, from the western expansion of the United States to the political consolidation ofLatin America. This text examines 19th-century authors in the United States and Spanish America who struggled to give voice to contemporary dilemmas about interracial sexual and cultural mixing. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Race mixture in nineteenth-century U.S. and Spanish American fictions |
ISBN: | 9798890878502 |
9780807875957 | |
0807875953 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910826875503321 |
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