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.
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