The Mulatta and the Politics of Race [electronic resource].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zackodnik, Teresa C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Intellectual life.

American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.

American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

Political fiction, American--History and criticism.

Politics and literature--United States.

Race in literature.

Race relations in literature.

Racially mixed people in literature.

Racism in literature.

Women and literature--United States.

Women in literature.

Local Subjects:

African American women--Intellectual life.

American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.

American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

Political fiction, American--History and criticism.

Politics and literature--United States.

Race in literature.

Race relations in literature.

Racially mixed people in literature.

Racism in literature.

Women and literature--United States.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jackson, [Miss.] : University Press of Mississippi, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From abolition through the years just before the civil rights struggle began, African American women recognized that a mixed-race woman made for a powerful and, at times, very useful figure in the battle for racial justice.The Mulatta and the Politics of Race traces many key instances in which black women have wielded the image of a racially mixed woman to assault the color line. In the oratory and fiction of black women from the late 1840's through the 1950's, Teresa C. Zackodnik finds the mulatta to be a metaphor of increasing potency. Before the Civil War white female abolitionists created

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Fixing the Color Line: The Mulatta, American Courts, and the Racial Imaginary; 2. "White Slaves" and Tragic Mulattas: The Antislavery Appeals of Ellen Craft and Sarah Parker Remond; 3. Little Romances and Mulatta Heroines: Passing for a "True Woman" in Frances Harper's Iola Leroy and Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces; 4. Commodified "Blackness" and Performative Possibilities in Jessie Fauset's: The Chinaberry Tree and Nella Larsen's Quicksand

5. Passing Transgressions, Excess, and Authentic Identity in Jessie Fauset's: Plum Bun and Nella Larsen's Passing Epilogue: The "Passing Out" of Passing and the Mulatta?; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62103-554-9

1-282-94079-1

9786612940798

1-60473-057-9

OCLC:

62256857