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1 online resource (139 pages) |
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Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory |
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Literary criticism and cultural theory.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Coloring Latinos, Coloring the United States; The Novel as Popular Culture; Race in Latin America; Latinos as a U.S. Race; The Novel in the Dissemination and Reconfiguration of Notions about Race; Chapter One: Novel Concepts: The Role of the Novel in Developing Ideas of Nation and Race in the Americas; Mikhail Bakhtin, Georg Lukács, and the "New World" of the Novel; Benedict Anderson and the Novel as a Tool of National Imagination; Fredric Jameson and the Many Worlds in the Americas |
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Novels and the Fictionalization of Racial AttitudesChapter Two: Enslaved Characters: Nineteenth-Century Abolitionist Novels and the Absence of Bi-racial Consciousness; Differences between Bi-racial and Mulatto Characters; The Myth of Racial Purity versus the Dreams of a Miscegenated Paradise; The Limitations of Nineteenth-Century Racial Representations; Uncle Tom's Cabin and Bi-racial Characters in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Latin American Literatures; Sab as a Nineteenth-Century Cuban Romantic Tale about Race; The Complicit Ignorance of Cecilia Valdes |
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A Thin Line between Black and White in Martin Morua Delgado's Sofía and Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead WilsonRace without Romance in Antonio Zambrana's El negro Francisco; Chapter Three: Mulatto Fictions: Representations of Identity-Consciousness in U.S. and Latin American Bi-racial Characters; Mulatto Characters as Racial and Cultural Nexus; Passing the Tragic Mulatta in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature; Gabriela and the Sexualized Mulatta in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature |
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Pobre negro, The Violent Land, and the Limits of Mulatto Characters in Twentieth-Century Latin American LiteratureJoe Christmas and the Unmerry Existence of Mulatto Characters in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature; Go Down, Moses and the Mumbled Recognition of Racial Confluence in the United States; The Bluest Eye and the Persistence of Anti-mulatto Fiction in the United States; Chapter Four: Identity Against the Grain: Latino Authors of African European Heritage and Their Encounters with the Racial Ideology of the United States; Latino Authors and the "One Drop" Rule |
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Piri Thomas, Julia Alvarez, and the Limitations of Choosing Sides in the U.S. Racial DivideEsmeralda Santiago and Negi's Persistent Puertoricanness in the Face of the "One Drop" Rule; Chapter Five: Choosing Your Own Face: Future Trends of Racial Discourses in the United States; Latino Influence in Other Cultural Products; The Latin American Racial Paradigm behind the "Wigga"; The Rock, Tiger Woods, and a Universal Race; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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American fiction.
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Comparative literature -- American and Latin American
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Comparative literature -- Latin American and American
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Latin American fiction.
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Miscegenation in literature.
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American fiction
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Latin American fiction
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Miscegenation in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135383442 |
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1135383448 |
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