Race mixture in nineteenth-century U.S. and Spanish American fictions : gender, culture, and nation building / Debra J. Rosenthal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenthal, Debra J., 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American fiction.

Miscegenation (Racist theory) in literature.

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

Spanish American fiction.

Comparative literature--American and Spanish.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature--Spanish American and American.

Multiracial people in literature.

Race relations in literature.

Slavery in literature.

Racism in literature.

Race in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Race mixture has played a formative role in the history of the Americas, from the western expansion of the United States to the political consolidation ofLatin America. This text examines 19th-century authors in the United States and Spanish America who struggled to give voice to contemporary dilemmas about interracial sexual and cultural mixing.

Contents:

Race mixture and the representation of Indians in the United States and the Andes

Temperance and miscegenation in Whitman's Franklin Evans

Cuban slave fiction : race mixture in Sab

Floral counterdiscourse : miscegenation, ecofeminism, and hybridity in Lydia Maria Child's Romance of the republic

The white blackbird : miscegenation, genre, and the tragic mulatta in Howells, Harper, and The babes of romance.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-177) and index.

ISBN:

9798890878502

9780807875957

0807875953

OCLC:

476237406