Research Catalog

Title

Segregated miscegenation : on the treatment of racial hybridity in the U.S. and Latin American literary traditions / Carlos Hiraldo.

Author

Hiraldo, Carlos, 1971-

Publication

New York : Routledge, 2003.

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Details

Description

ix, 128 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Literary criticism and cultural theory

Uniform Title

Literary criticism and cultural theory.

Subject

• American fiction > History and criticism
• Miscegenation in literature
• Comparative literature > American and Latin American
• Comparative literature > Latin American and American
• Latin American fiction > History and criticism
• Racially mixed people in literature
• Race relations in literature
• Race in literature
• American fiction
• Latin American fiction
• Ethnische Beziehungen
• Literatur
• Rassenmischung
• Rasse Motiv
• Rassenmischung Motiv
• Literatura norte-americana (história e crítica)
• Literatura comparada > Século 19;século 20 > Estados unidos;américa latina
• Relações étnicas e raciais
• Miscigenação
• Rassenbeziehung <Motiv>
• Lateinamerika
• USA
• USA

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-123) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Coloring Latinos, Coloring the United States -- The Novel as Popular Culture -- Race in Latin America -- Latinos as a U.S. Race -- The Novel in the Dissemination and Reconfiguration of Notions about Race -- Ch. 1 Novel Concepts: The Role of the Novel in Developing Ideas of Nation and Race in the Americas -- Mikhail Bakhtin, Georg Lukacs, and the "New World" of the Novel -- Benedict Anderson and the Novel as a Tool of National Imagination -- Fredric Jameson and the Many Worlds in the Americas -- Novels and the Fictionalization of Racial Attitudes -- Ch. 2 Enslaved Characters: Nineteenth-Century Abolitionist Novels and the Absence of Bi-racial Consciousness -- Differences between Bi-racial and Mulatto Characters -- The Myth of Racial Purity versus the Dreams of a Miscegenated Paradise -- The Limitations of Nineteenth-Century Racial Representations -- Uncle Tom's Cabin and Bi-racial Characters in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Latin American Literatures -- Sab as a Nineteenth-Century Cuban Romantic Tale about Race -- The Complicit Ignorance of Cecilia Valdes -- A Thin Line between Black and White in Martin Morua Delgado's Sofia and Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson -- Race without Romance in Antonio Zambrana's El negro Francisco -- Ch. 3 Mulatto Fictions: Representations of Identity-Consciousness in U.S. and Latin American Bi-racial Characters -- Mulatto Characters as Racial and Cultural Nexus -- Passing the Tragic Mulatta in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature -- Gabriela and the Sexualized Mulatta in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature -- Pobre negro, The Violent Land, and the Limits of Mulatto Characters in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature -- Joe Christmas and the Unmerry Existence of Mulatto Characters in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature -- Go Down, Moses and the Mumbled Recognition of Racial Confluence in the United States -- The Bluest Eye and the Persistence of Anti-mulatto Fiction in the United States -- Ch. 4 Identity Against the Grain: Latino Authors of African European Heritage and Their Encounters with the Racial Ideology of the United States -- Latino Authors and the "One Drop" Rule -- Piri Thomas, Julia Alvarez, and the Limitations of Choosing Sides in the U.S. Racial Divide -- Esmeralda Santiago and Negi's Persistent Puertoricanness in the Face of the "One Drop" Rule -- Ch. 5 Choosing Your Own Face: Future Trends of Racial Discourses in the United States -- Latino Influence in Other Cultural Products -- The Latin American Racial Paradigm behind the "Wigga" -- The Rock, Tiger Woods, and a Universal Race.

ISBN

• 0415943493
• 9780415943499

LCCN

2002151046

OCLC

• ocm50761555
• 50761555
• SCSB-1318768

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library