Barriers between Us: Interracial Sex in Nineteenth-Century American LiteratureIndiana University Press, 2004 M11 8 - 160 páginas This provocative book examines the representation of characters of mixed African and European descent in the works of African American and European American writers of the 19th century. The importance of mulatto figures as agents of ideological exchange in the American literary tradition has yet to receive sustained critical attention. Going beyond Sterling Brown's melodramatic stereotype of the mulatto as "tragic figure," Cassandra Jackson's close study of nine works of fiction shows how the mulatto trope reveals the social, cultural, and political ideas of the period. Jackson uncovers a vigorous discussion in 19th-century fiction about the role of racial ideology in the creation of an American identity. She analyzes the themes of race-mixing, the "mulatto," nation building, and the social fluidity of race (and its imagined biological rigidity) in novels by James Fenimore Cooper, Richard Hildreth, Lydia Maria Child, Frances E. W. Harper, Thomas Detter, George Washington Cable, and Charles Chesnutt. Blacks in the Diaspora -- Claude A. Clegg III, editor |
Contenido
Reconstructing America | 48 |
Doubles in Eden | 71 |
Schoolteachers | 91 |
Formulating a National Self | 113 |
Bibliography | 133 |
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Barriers Between Us: Interracial Sex in Nineteenth-century American Literature Cassandra Jackson Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
Barriers Between Us: Interracial Sex in Nineteenth-century American Literature Cassandra Jackson Vista de fragmentos - 2004 |
Barriers Between Us: Interracial Sex in Nineteenth-century American Literature Cassandra Jackson Sin vista previa disponible - 2004 |
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Página 21 - ... say, we have no slaves in our respective kingdoms, properly so called, when every body knows that the one is at this moment filled with white beggars, and the other with paupers who are supported by the public purse, and both for the simple reason that they are overflowing with population. It is true, that two centuries ago, when they had more room, they did not import negroes from Guinea; but it is, also, just as true, that they sent their ships to convey them to colonies which are situated...
Página 136 - What did he reckon would become of the other half if he killed his half? Do you reckon he thought it would live?
Página 25 - And what chains them to their present state of barbarism and wretchedness, but a bigotted veneration for the supposed superlative wisdom of their fathers, and the preposterous idea that they are to look backward for better things, and not forward, longing, as it should seem, to return to the days of eating acorns and roots, rather than indulge in the degeneracies of civilization? And how much more encouraging to the...
Página 62 - While some of the authors of the present day have been weaving their stories about white men marrying beautiful quadroon girls, who, in so doing were lost to us socially, I conceived of one of that same class to whom I gave a higher, holier destiny...
Página 79 - Nemesis w'ich, instead of coming afteh, glides along by the side of this morhal, political, commercial, social mistake! It blanches, my-de'-seh, ow whole civilization! It drhags us a centurhy behind the rhes
Página 86 - February though it was, she was dressed — and looked comfortable — in white. That barbaric beauty which had begun to bud twenty years before was now in perfect bloom. The united grace and pride of her movement was inspiring but — what shall we say? — feline? It was a femininity without humanity, — something that made her, with all her superbness, a creature that one would want to find chained.
Página 22 - ... The Indian became for Americans a symbol of their American experience; it was no mere luck of the toss that placed the profile of an American Indian rather than an American Negro on the famous old five-cent piece. Confronting the Indian in America was a testing experience, common to all the colonies. Conquering the Indian symbolized and personified the conquest of the American difficulties, the surmounting of the wilderness. To push back the Indian was to prove the worth of one's own mission,...
Página 26 - Some he made with faces paler than the ermine of the forests: and these he ordered to be traders; dogs to their women, and wolves to their slaves. He gave this people the nature of the pigeon; wings that never tire: young, more plentiful than the leaves on the trees, and appetites to devour the earth. He gave them tongues like the false call of the wildcat; hearts like rabbits; the cunning of the hog (but none of the fox), and arms longer than the legs of the moose.
Referencias a este libro
In this Remote Country: French Colonial Culture in the Anglo-American ... Edward Watts Vista previa limitada - 2006 |
The Misspoken: (re)reading Figures of Black Women in Nineteenth and ... Lynn Carol Jennings Vista de fragmentos - 2007 |