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Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions - Gender, Culture, and Nation Building (Paperback, New edition)
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Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions - Gender, Culture, and Nation Building (Paperback, New edition)
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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.
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