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

A vigorous discussion of 19th-century fiction about the role of racial ideology in the creation of an American identity.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jackson, Cassandra, 1972-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2004.
Colección:Blacks in the diaspora.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Race and nation in nineteenth-century interracial fictions
  • 1. The Last of the Mohicans or the First of the Mulattos? Slavery and native American removal in Cooper's American frontier
  • 2. A land without names: national anxiety in The slave; or, Memoirs of Archy Moore
  • 3. Reconstructing America in Lydia Maria Child's A romance of the republic and Frances E.W. Harper's Minnie's sacrifice
  • 4. Doubles in Eden in George Washington's Cable's The grandissimes
  • 5. "I will gladly share with them my richer heritage": schoolteachers in Frances E.W. Harper's Iola Leroy and Charles Chestnutt's Mandy Oxendine
  • Formulating a national self.