Race Mixture In Nineteenth Century U S And Spanish American Fictions

Author: Debra J. Rosenthal
Editor: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807875953
File Size: 47,58 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Read: 9826
Download

Race mixture has played a formative role in the history of the Americas, from the western expansion of the United States to the political consolidation of emerging nations in Latin America. Debra J. Rosenthal examines nineteenth-century authors in the United States and Spanish America who struggled to give voice to these contemporary dilemmas about interracial sexual and cultural mixing. 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 Gomez 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.

Transamerican Sentimentalism And Nineteenth Century Us Literary History

Author: Maria Windell
Editor: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198862334
File Size: 60,19 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Read: 7630
Download

Sentimentalism is usually studied through US-British relations after the American Revolution or in connection to national reforms like the abolitionist movement. Transamerican Sentimentalism and Nineteenth-Century US Literary History instead argues that African American, Native American, Latinx, and Anglo American women writers also used sentimentalism to construct narratives that reframed or countered the violence dominating the nineteenth-century Americas, including the Haitian Revolution, Indian Removal, the US-Mexican War, and Cuba's independence wars. By tracking the transformation of sentimentalism as the US reacted to, enacted, and intervened in conflict Transamerican Sentimentalism and Nineteenth-Century US Literary History demonstrates how marginalized writers negotiated hemispheric encounters amidst the gendered, racialized, and cultural violence of the nineteenth-century Americas. It remaps sentiment's familiar transatlantic and national scholarly frameworks through authors such as Leonora Sansay and Mary Peabody Mann, and considers how authors including John Rollin Ridge, John S. and Harriet Jacobs, Mar�a Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Victor S�jour, and Martin R. Delany adapted the mode. Transamerican sentimentalism cannot unseat the violence of the nineteenth-century Americas, but it does produce other potential outcomes-including new paradigms for understanding the coquette, a locally successful informal diplomacy, and motivations for violent slave revolt. Such transformations mark not sentiment's failures or distortions, but its adaptive attempts to survive and thrive.

Racial Mixture And Civil War

Author: Emron Lee Esplin
Editor:
ISBN:
File Size: 39,71 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Read: 2882
Download

Uncle Tom S Cabins

Author: Tracy C Davis
Editor: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472037765
File Size: 75,42 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Read: 749
Download

As Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin traveled around the world, it was molded by the imaginations and needs of international audiences. For over 150 years it has been coopted for a dazzling array of causes far from what its author envisioned. This book tells thirteen variants of Uncle Tom’s journey, explicating the novel’s significance for Canadian abolitionists and the Liberian political elite that constituted the runaway characters’ landing points; nineteenth-century French theatergoers; liberal Cuban, Romanian, and Spanish intellectuals and social reformers; Dutch colonizers and Filipino nationalists in Southeast Asia; Eastern European Cold War communists; Muslim readers and spectators in the Middle East; Brazilian television audiences; and twentieth-century German holidaymakers. Throughout these encounters, Stowe’s story of American slavery serves as a paradigm for understanding oppression, selectively and strategically refracting the African American slave onto other iconic victims and freedom fighters. The book brings together performance historians, literary critics, and media theorists to demonstrate how the myriad cultural and political effects of Stowe’s enduring story has transformed it into a global metanarrative with national, regional, and local specificity.

British Bulletin Of Publications On Latin America The Caribbean Portugal And Spain

Author:
Editor:
ISBN:
File Size: 43,79 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Read: 8812
Download

Choice

Author:
Editor:
ISBN:
File Size: 24,73 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Read: 9435
Download

Latin American Studies Association International Congress

Author: Latin American Studies Association. International Congress
Editor:
ISBN:
File Size: 62,18 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Read: 3843
Download

The Latin Americanist

Author:
Editor:
ISBN:
File Size: 58,40 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Read: 7955
Download

New Books On Women And Feminism

Author:
Editor:
ISBN:
File Size: 65,47 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Read: 5335
Download

Legacy

Author:
Editor:
ISBN:
File Size: 19,11 MB
Format: PDF
Read: 4485
Download

American Book Publishing Record

Author:
Editor:
ISBN:
File Size: 66,74 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Read: 2575
Download

The Book Review Digest

Author:
Editor:
ISBN:
File Size: 59,54 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Read: 8886
Download

American Literary Scholarship

Author: James Leslie Woodress
Editor:
ISBN:
File Size: 16,89 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Read: 8721
Download

Mixing Race Mixing Culture

Author: Monika Kaup
Editor: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292743489
File Size: 29,56 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Read: 8862
Download

Over the last five centuries, the story of the Americas has been a story of the mixing of races and cultures. Not surprisingly, the issue of miscegenation, with its attendant fears and hopes, has been a pervasive theme in New World literature, as writers from Canada to Argentina confront the legacy of cultural hybridization and fusion. This book takes up the challenge of transforming American literary and cultural studies into a comparative discipline by examining the dynamics of racial and cultural mixture and its opposite tendency, racial and cultural disjunction, in the literatures of the Americas. Editors Kaup and Rosenthal have brought together a distinguished set of scholars who compare the treatment of racial and cultural mixtures in literature from North America, the Caribbean, and Latin America. From various angles, they remap the Americas as a multicultural and multiracial hemisphere, with a common history of colonialism, slavery, racism, and racial and cultural hybridity.

Clarence

Author: Catharine Maria Sedgwick
Editor: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1460400674
File Size: 37,70 MB
Format: PDF
Read: 2338
Download

Honorable mention recipient for the 2012 Society for the Study of American Women Writers Award. A pioneering American novel of manners first published in 1830, Catharine Sedgwick’s Clarence follows heiress Gertrude Clarence as she negotiates the perils of the marriage market in New York City. Giving Gertrude’s family English and Caribbean histories, Sedgwick aligns the United States in the 1820s with a larger Atlantic world. This edition of Sedgwick’s cosmopolitan novel will contribute to a rethinking both of the history of the American novel of manners and to the shape of Sedgwick’s career as one of the most important novelists of the first half of the nineteenth century. This Broadview edition offers a rich selection of contextual materials, including selections from Sedgwick’s correspondence and journals reconstructing the origins of the novel, engravings and lithographs of key sites in the novel, American and British reviews of the novel, and documentation of the author’s revised edition of 1849.

The British National Bibliography

Author: Arthur James Wells
Editor:
ISBN:
File Size: 64,42 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Read: 4719
Download

The Nineteenth Century Novel

Author: Stephen Regan
Editor: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415238281
File Size: 36,20 MB
Format: PDF
Read: 2874
Download

Most undergraduate literature courses begin with a compulsory survey course on the novel. The Nineteenth-Century Novel: A Critical Reader fills a real gap in the market as no other book provides such a comprehensive selection of contemporary and modern essays and reviews on the most important novels of the period. By bringing together a range of material written across two centuries, it offers an insight into the changing reception of realist fiction and a discussion of how complex debates about the meaning and function of realism informed and shaped the kind of fiction that was written in the nineteenth century. The novels discussed are: Northanger Abbey, Jane Eyre, Dombey and Son, Middlemarch, Far From the Madding Crowd, Germinal, Madame Bovary, The Woman in White, The Portrait of a Lady, The Awakening, Dracula, Heart of Darkness.

Journal Of The School Of Languages

Author: Jawaharlal Nehru University. School of Languages
Editor:
ISBN:
File Size: 32,18 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Read: 9736
Download