| Description |
xxxii, 235 p. ; 24 cm. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-227) and index. |
| Contents |
Fixing the color line: the mulatta, American courts, and the racial imaginary. -- "White slaves" and tragic mulattas: the antislavery appeals of Ellen Craft and Sarah Parker Remond. -- Little romances and mulatta heroines: passing for a "true woman" in Frances Harper's Iola Leroy and Pauline Hopkins's Contending forces. -- Commodified "blackness" and performance possibilities in Jessie Fauset's The chinaberry tree and Nella Larsen's Quicksand. -- Passing transgressions, excess, and authentic identity in Jessie Fauset's Plum bun and Nella Larsen's Passing. -- Epilogue: The "passing out" of Passing and the mulatta? |
| Summary |
"The Mulatta and the Politics of Race focuses on the anti-slavery lectures and appearances of Ellen Craft and Sarah Parker Remond, the domestic fiction of Pauline Hopkins and Frances Harper, the Harlem Renaissance novels of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen, and the little-known 1950s texts of Dorothy Lee Dickens and Reba Lee. Throughout, the author discovers the especially valuable and as yet unexplored contributions of these black women and their uses of the mulatta in prose and speech."--BOOK JACKET. |
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American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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Race in literature.
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American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Political fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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African American women -- Intellectual life.
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Politics and literature -- United States.
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Women and literature -- United States.
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Racially mixed people in literature.
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Race relations in literature.
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Racism in literature.
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Women in literature.
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| ISBN |
9781604735543 (pbk) |
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1604735546 (pbk) |
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157806676X (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9781578066766 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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