Relative races : genealogies of interracial kinship in nineteenth-century America / Brigitte Fielder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fielder, Brigitte, author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race in literature.

American literature--History and criticism.

American literature.

Race relations in literature.

Literature and race--United States.

Literature and race.

Race.

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans.

United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 308 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

"Brigitte Fielder presents an alternative theory of how race is constructed with readings of nineteenth-century personal narratives, novels, plays, stories, poems, and images to illustrate how interracial kinship follows non-heteronormative, non-biological, and non-patrilineal models of inheritance in nineteenth-century literary culture."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Genealogies of Interracial Kinship

Romance: Sexual Kinship

Blackface Desdemona, or, the White Woman "Begrimed"

Almost Eliza: Reading and Racialization

Reproduction: Genealogies of (Re)Racialization

Mothers and Mammies: Racial Maternity and Matriliny

Kinfullness: Mama's Baby, Racial Futures

Residency: Domestic Racial Relations

Mary Jemison's Cabin: Domestic Spaces of Racialization

Racial (Re)Construction: Interracial Kinship and the Interracial Nation

"Minus Bloodlines": White Womanhood and Failures of Interracial Kinship

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Fielder, Brigitte. Relative races.

ISBN:

9781478012689

1478012684

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.