Barriers between us [[electronic resource] ] : interracial sex in nineteenth-century American literature / / Cassandra Jackson

• Autore: Jackson Cassandra <1972->
• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (160 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.3093552
• Soggetto topico: American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; Racially mixed people in literature; Miscegenation in literature; Race in literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-138) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This 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 mulatto
• Titolo autorizzato: Barriers between us
• ISBN: 9786612072338; 1-282-07233-1; 0-253-11045-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784580103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blacks in the diaspora.