The "tragic mulatta" revisited : race and nationalism in nineteenth-century antislavery fiction

The "tragic mulatta" revisited : race and nationalism in nineteenth-century antislavery fiction / Eve Allegra Raimon.

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Main Author:	Raimon, Eve Allegra, 1957-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2004.
Subjects:	1800-1899 American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. Race in literature. Nationalism and literature > United States > History > 19th century. African American women in literature. Antislavery movements in literature. Multiracial people in literature. Tragic, The, in literature. Nationalism in literature. Slavery in literature. Women in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General. African American women in literature American fiction Antislavery movements in literature Nationalism and literature Nationalism in literature Race in literature Multiracial people in literature Slavery in literature Tragic, The, in literature Women in literature Nationalbewusstsein > Motiv Literatur Sklaverei > Motiv Rassenfrage > Motiv United States USA Criticism, interpretation, etc. History
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Table of Contents:

Introduction : reading miscegenation
1. Of romances and republics in Lydia Maria Child's miscegenation fiction
2. Revising the "quadroon narrative" in William Wells Brown's Clotel
3. Resistant Cassys in Richard Hildreth's The slave and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin
4. Public poor relief and national belonging in Harriet Wilson's Our nig
Coda : the "tragic mulatta" then and now.