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Auteur(s) : Paulin, Diana Rebekkah
Titre(s) : Imperfect unions [Texte imprimé] : staging miscegenation in U.S. drama and fiction / Diana Rebekkah Paulin
Publication : Minneapolis (Minn.) : University of Minnesota press, 2012
Description matérielle : xxviii, 315 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Comprend : Introduction. Setting the stage: The Black-white binary in an imperfect union ;
Under the covers of forbidden desire: interracial unions as surrogates ; Clear definitions
for an anxious world: late nineteenth-century surrogacy ; Staging the unspoken terror
; The remix: Afro-Indian intimacies ; The futurity of miscegenation ; Conclusion:
the "sex factor"and twenty-first century stagings of miscegenation.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
" Imperfect Unions examines the vital role that nineteenth- and twentieth-century
dramatic and literary enactments played in the constitution and consolidation of race
in the United States. Diana Rebekkah Paulin investigates how these representations
produced, and were produced by, the black-white binary that informed them in a wide
variety of texts written across the period between the Civil War and World War I--by
Louisa May Alcott, Thomas Dixon, J. Rosamond Johnson, Charles Chesnutt, James Weldon
Johnson, William Dean Howells, and many others. Paulin's "miscegenated reading practices"
reframe the critical cultural roles that drama and fiction played during this significant
half century. She demonstrates the challenges of crossing intellectual boundaries,
echoing the crossings--of race, gender, nation, class, and hemisphere--that complicated
the black-white divide at the turn of the twentieth century and continue to do so
today. Imperfect Unions reveals how our ongoing discussions about race are also dialogues
about nation formation. As the United States attempted to legitimize its own global
ascendancy, the goal of eliminating evidence of inferiority became paramount. At the
same time, however, the foundation of the United States was linked to slavery that
served as reminders of its "mongrel" origins. "--
Sujet(s) : Littérature américaine -- 19e siècle -- Thèmes, motifs
Littérature américaine -- 20e siècle -- Thèmes, motifs
Métissage -- Dans la littérature
Relations interethniques -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780816670987 (hardback). - ISBN 0816670986 (hardback). - ISBN 9780816670994
(pb). - ISBN 0816670994 (pb)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43521631b
Notice n° :
FRBNF43521631
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