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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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.
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Rosenthal examines the political nature of intimacy and sex in novels about miscegenation. She discusses authors from the U.S. (Cooper, Sedgwick, Twain, Whitman, Howells, and Harper) as well as contemporary novelists from Cuba, Peru and Ecuador.
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Miscegenation in national literature repeats as a hemispheric theme across the Americas, for many US, and Latin American novels figure Indian-white mixing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
racial temperance, miscegenous desire, tragic mulatta stereotype, indigenista novels, miscegenation plot, temperance fiction, sin nido, antislavery stories, racial taint, white blackbird, race mixture, incest plot, biracial woman, sexual mixing, racial hybridity, interracial mixing, racial heterogeneity, imperative duty, antislavery novels, black ancestry Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Franklin Evans, Del Monte, Matto de Turner, Romance of the Republic, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Hope Leslie, Towards the Gulf, Iola Leroy, Latin American, New World, Alfred King, Lydia Maria Child, Native Americans, The Chamber, African American, Gerald Fitzgerald, New England, Oxford English Dictionary, South America, Editor's Study, Leaves of Grass, Puerto Principe, Vanishing American, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn New!
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Miscegenation in national literature repeats as a hemispheric theme across the Americas, for many US, and Latin American novels figure Indian-white mixing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
racial temperance, miscegenous desire, tragic mulatta stereotype, indigenista novels, miscegenation plot, temperance fiction, sin nido, antislavery stories, racial taint, white blackbird, race mixture, incest plot, biracial woman, sexual mixing, racial hybridity, interracial mixing, racial heterogeneity, imperative duty, antislavery novels, black ancestry Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Franklin Evans, Del Monte, Matto de Turner, Romance of the Republic, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Hope Leslie, Towards the Gulf, Iola Leroy, Latin American, New World, Alfred King, Lydia Maria Child, Native Americans, The Chamber, African American, Gerald Fitzgerald, New England, Oxford English Dictionary, South America, Editor's Study, Leaves of Grass, Puerto Principe, Vanishing American, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn New!
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- A Romance of the Republic by L. Maria Child on 17 pages
- The Last of the Mohicans (Puffin Classics) by Abridged by Robin Waterfield James Fenimore Cooper on 12 pages
- Last of the Mohicans (Now Illus Ser III) by James F. Cooper on 12 pages
- Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain on 4 pages
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin Classics) by Mark Twain on 4 pages
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