Barriers between us : interracial sex in nineteenth-century American literature / Cassandra Jackson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Cassandra, 1972-

Series:

Blacks in the diaspora.

Blacks in the diaspora

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Multiracial people in literature.

Miscegenation (Racist theory) in literature.

Race in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-138) and index.

ISBN:

9786612072338

9781282072336

1282072331

9780253110459

0253110459

OCLC:

475970500