| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 200 pages) |
| Series |
New World studies |
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New World studies.
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| Contents |
"What Mischief Would Follow?" : Racial Boundaries, Antireformers, and White Space -- Colored Carpenters and White Gentlemen : Harriet Jacobs's Pedagogy of Citizenship -- Desire, Conquest, and Insurrection in Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda's Sab -- Republicanism and Soul Philosophy in Elizabeth Livermore's Zoë -- Reconstruction Optimism in Julia Collins's The Curse of Caste -- The End of Romance in Frances Watkins Harper's Minnie's Sacrifice |
| Summary |
As in many literatures of the New World grappling with issues of slavery and freedom, stories of racial insurrection frequently coincided with stories of cross-racial romance in nineteenth-century U.S. print culture. This book explores how authors such as Harriet Jacobs, Elizabeth Livermore, and Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda imagined the expansion of race and gender-based rights as a hemispheric affair, drawing together the United States with Africa, Cuba, and other parts of the Caribbean. Placing less familiar women writers in conversation with their more famous contemporaries - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Lydia Maria Child - the author traces the transnational progress of freedom through the antebellum cultural fascination with cross-racial relationships and insurrections. Her book mines a variety of sources - fiction, political rhetoric, popular journalism, race science, and biblical treatises - to reveal a common concern: a future in which romance and rebellion engender radical social and political transformation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Race relations in literature.
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Insurgency in literature.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American.
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Ethnic relations
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Insurgency in literature
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Literature
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Race relations in literature
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| SUBJECT |
America -- Literatures -- History and criticism
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America -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century
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| Subject |
America
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813934907 |
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0813934907 |
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1299864937 |
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9781299864931 |
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0813934885 |
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9780813934884 |
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0813934893 |
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9780813934891 |
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