UID:
edocfu_9959227846202883
Format:
1 online resource (160 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9786612072338
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1-282-07233-1
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0-253-11045-9
Series Statement:
Blacks in the diaspora
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
,
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
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-253-21733-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-253-34511-1
Language:
English
