Segregated miscegenation : on the treatment of racial hybridity in the U.S. and Latin American literary traditions / / Carlos Hiraldo

• Autore: Hiraldo Carlos <1971-, >
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (139 p.)
• Disciplina: 813.009/355
• Soggetto topico: American fiction - History and criticism; Miscegenation (Racist theory) in literature; Comparative literature - American and Latin American; Comparative literature - Latin American and American; Latin American fiction - History and criticism
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Coloring Latinos, Coloring the United States; The Novel as Popular Culture; Race in Latin America; Latinos as a U.S. Race; The Novel in the Dissemination and Reconfiguration of Notions about Race; Chapter One: Novel Concepts: The Role of the Novel in Developing Ideas of Nation and Race in the Americas; Mikhail Bakhtin, Georg Lukács, and the "New World" of the Novel; Benedict Anderson and the Novel as a Tool of National Imagination; Fredric Jameson and the Many Worlds in the Americas ; Novels and the Fictionalization of Racial AttitudesChapter Two: Enslaved Characters: Nineteenth-Century Abolitionist Novels and the Absence of Bi-racial Consciousness; Differences between Bi-racial and Mulatto Characters; The Myth of Racial Purity versus the Dreams of a Miscegenated Paradise; The Limitations of Nineteenth-Century Racial Representations; Uncle Tom's Cabin and Bi-racial Characters in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Latin American Literatures; Sab as a Nineteenth-Century Cuban Romantic Tale about Race; The Complicit Ignorance of Cecilia Valdes ; A Thin Line between Black and White in Martin Morua Delgado's Sofía and Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead WilsonRace without Romance in Antonio Zambrana's El negro Francisco; Chapter Three: Mulatto Fictions: Representations of Identity-Consciousness in U.S. and Latin American Bi-racial Characters; Mulatto Characters as Racial and Cultural Nexus; Passing the Tragic Mulatta in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature; Gabriela and the Sexualized Mulatta in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature ; Pobre negro, The Violent Land, and the Limits of Mulatto Characters in Twentieth-Century Latin American LiteratureJoe Christmas and the Unmerry Existence of Mulatto Characters in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature; Go Down, Moses and the Mumbled Recognition of Racial Confluence in the United States; The Bluest Eye and the Persistence of Anti-mulatto Fiction in the United States; Chapter Four: Identity Against the Grain: Latino Authors of African European Heritage and Their Encounters with the Racial Ideology of the United States; Latino Authors and the "One Drop" Rule ; Piri Thomas, Julia Alvarez, and the Limitations of Choosing Sides in the U.S. Racial DivideEsmeralda Santiago and Negi's Persistent Puertoricanness in the Face of the "One Drop" Rule; Chapter Five: Choosing Your Own Face: Future Trends of Racial Discourses in the United States; Latino Influence in Other Cultural Products; The Latin American Racial Paradigm behind the "Wigga"; The Rock, Tiger Woods, and a Universal Race; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
• Titolo autorizzato: Segregated miscegenation
• ISBN: 1-135-38351-0; 0-203-95439-4; 1-135-38344-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807190003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory