Race Mixture in Nineteenth-century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions: Gender, Culture, and Nation BuildingRace 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 Uni |
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InterAmerican Interracial Intercourse | 1 |
Race Mixture and the Representation of Indians in the United States and the Andes | 18 |
Temperance and Miscegenation in Whitmans Franklin Evans | 52 |
CubanSlave Fiction Race Mixture in Sab | 69 |
Floral Counterdiscourse Miscegenation Ecofeminism and Hybridity in Lydia Maria Childs Romance of the Republic | 95 |
The White Blackbird Miscegenation Genre and the Tragic Mulatta in Howells Harper and the Babes of Romance | 115 |
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| Title | Race Mixture in Nineteenth-century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions: Gender, Culture, and Nation Building |
| Author | Debra J. Rosenthal |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press, 2004 |
| ISBN | 0807855642, 9780807855645 |
| Length | 182 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / Caribbean & Latin American |
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