Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions
Subtitle: Gender, Culture, and Nation Building
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: October 31, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780807828991
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Literary Criticism; Caribbean & Latin American; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; USA; American - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / Central & South American; miscegenation; hybridity; comparitive literature of the Americas; Pan-American; inter-American; trans-American; hemispheric literary study; race; interracial mixture; National idenity; Nineteenth century; Juan Leon Mera; James Fenimore Cooper; Clorinda Matto de Turner; Lydia Maria Child; Helen Hunt Jackson; Catharine Maria Sedgewick; Walt Whitman; Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda; William Dean Howells; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper; American fiction; General; 19th century; History and criticism; Miscegenation in literature; Spanish-American fiction
First sentence: Miscegenation in national literature repeats as a hemispheric theme across the Americas, for many US, and Latin American novels figure Indian-white mixing.