Mixed Bloods And Other Crosses
Subtitle: Rethinking American Literature From The Revolution To The Culture Wars
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: December 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780812238440
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Racially mixed people in liter; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; USA; Racially mixed people in literature; American - General; History and criticism; American literature; Literature and society; United States
First sentence: Blood. The image saturates the literature of the American founding and the years of ongoing political and cultural struggle over the Revolutionary ideals of freedom, equality, justice, rights, and citizenship.