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Race, romance, and rebellion : literatures of the Americas in the nineteenth century /

As in many literatures of the New World grappling with issues of slavery and freedom, stories of racial insurrection frequently coincided with stories of cross-racial romance in nineteenth-century U.S. print culture. This book explores how authors such as Harriet Jacobs, Elizabeth Livermore, and Ger...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: O'Brien, Colleen C., 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013
Colección:New World studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:As in many literatures of the New World grappling with issues of slavery and freedom, stories of racial insurrection frequently coincided with stories of cross-racial romance in nineteenth-century U.S. print culture. This book explores how authors such as Harriet Jacobs, Elizabeth Livermore, and Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda imagined the expansion of race and gender-based rights as a hemispheric affair, drawing together the United States with Africa, Cuba, and other parts of the Caribbean. Placing less familiar women writers in conversation with their more famous contemporaries - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Lydia Maria Child - the author traces the transnational progress of freedom through the antebellum cultural fascination with cross-racial relationships and insurrections. Her book mines a variety of sources - fiction, political rhetoric, popular journalism, race science, and biblical treatises - to reveal a common concern: a future in which romance and rebellion engender radical social and political transformation.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiv, 200 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780813934907
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