Barriers between us : interracial sex in nineteenth-century American literature / Cassandra Jackson.
A vigorous discussion of 19th-century fiction about the role of racial ideology in the creation of an American identity.
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| Other title: | Interracial sex in nineteenth-century American literature |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©2004.
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| Series: | Blacks in the diaspora.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.