Umfang:
Online-Ressource (146 p)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0253217334
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0253345111
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9780253345110
Serie:
Blacks in the diaspora
Inhalt:
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 trop
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-138) and index
,
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
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780253345110
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Barriers between Us : Interracial Sex in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Sprache:
Englisch
