Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions

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Publisher description -- [Debra J.] Rosenthal argues that many literary representations of intimacy or sex took on political dimensions, whether advocating assimilation or miscegenation or defending the status quo. She also examines the degree to which novelists reacted to beliefs about skin differences, blood taboos, incest, desire, or inheritance laws. Rosenthal discusses U.S. authors such as James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Walt Whitman, William Dean Howells, and Lydia Maria Child as well as contemporary novelists from Cuba, Peru, and Ecuador, such as Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Clorinda Matto de Turner, and Juan Leon Mera. With her multinational approach, Rosenthal explores the significance of racial hybridity to national and literary identity and participates in the wider scholarly effort to broaden critical discussions about America to include the Americas.

subjects: American and Spanish American,  American fiction,  Comparative Literature,  History and criticism,  Miscegenation in literature,  Race in literature,  Race relations in literature,  Racially mixed people in literature,  Racism in literature,  Slavery in literature,  Spanish American and American,  Spanish-American fiction,  American fiction, history and criticism, 19th century,  Comparative literature, french and armenian,  Comparative literature, american and spanish,  Spanish American fiction,  Roman americain,  Histoire et critique,  Metissage dans la litterature,  Roman hispano-americain,  Litterature comparee,  Americaine et hispano-americaine,  Hispano-americaine et americaine,  Mulatres dans la litterature,  Metis dans la litterature,  Relations raciales dans la litterature,  Esclavage dans la litterature,  Racisme dans la litterature,  Race dans la litterature,  Rassenvermenging,  Letterkunde,  Spaans,  Amerikaans,  American and Spanish,  Universidad Sergio Arboleda

Times: 19th century