Segregated miscegenation : on the treatment of racial hybridity in the U.S. and Latin American literary traditions / Carlos Hiraldo
| Author(s): | Hiraldo, Carlos, 1971- |
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| Subjects: | 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 |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Published: | New York : Routledge, 2003 |
| Series: | Literary criticism and cultural theory |
| LC Classification: | P, PS |
| Table of Contents: | Acknowledgments Introduction: Coloring Latinos, Coloring the United States 1 The Novel as Popular Culture 1 Race in Latin America 1 Latinos as a U.S. Race 3 The Novel in the Dissemination and Reconfiguration of Notions about Race 5 Ch. 1. Novel Concepts: The Role of the Novel in Developing Ideas of Nation and Race in the Americas 9 Mikhail Bakhtin, Georg Lukacs, and the "New World" of the Novel 9 Benedict Anderson and the Novel as a Tool of National Imagination 14 Fredric Jameson and the Many Worlds in the Americas 16 Novels and the Fictionalization of Racial Attitudes 21 Ch. 2. Enslaved Characters: Nineteenth-Century Abolitionist Novels and the Absence of Bi-racial Consciousness 31 Differences between Bi-racial and Mulatto Characters 31 The Myth of Racial Purity versus the Dreams of a Miscegenated Paradise 32 The Limitations of Nineteenth-Century Racial Representations 36 Uncle Tom's Cabin and Bi-racial Characters in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Latin American Literatures 38 Sab as a Nineteenth-Century Cuban Romantic Tale about Race 42 The Complicit Ignorance of Cecilia Valdes 44 A Thin Line between Black and White in Martin Morua Delgado's Sofia and Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson 46 Race without Romance in Antonio Zambrana's El negro Francisco 51 Ch. 3. Mulatto Fictions: Representations of Identity-Consciousness in U.S. and Latin American Bi-racial Characters 55 Mulatto Characters as Racial and Cultural Nexus 55 Passing the Tragic Mulatta in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature 58 Gabriela and the Sexualized Mulatta in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature 63 Pobre negro, The Violent Land, and the Limits of Mulatto Characters in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature 68 Joe Christmas and the Unmerry Existence of Mulatto Characters in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature 72 Go Down, Moses and the Mumbled Recognition of Racial Confluence in the United States 78 The Bluest Eye and the Persistence of Anti-mulatto Fiction in the United States 80 Ch. 4. Identity Against the Grain: Latino Authors of African European Heritage and Their Encounters with the Racial Ideology of the United States 85 Latino Authors and the "One Drop" Rule 85 Piri Thomas, Julia Alvarez, and the Limitations of Choosing Sides in the U.S. Racial Divide 87 Esmeralda Santiago and Negi's Persistent Puertoricanness in the Face of the "One Drop" Rule 101 Ch. 5. Choosing Your Own Face: Future Trends of Racial Discourses in the United States 107 Latino Influence in Other Cultural Products 107 The Latin American Racial Paradigm behind the "Wigga" 109 The Rock, Tiger Woods, and a Universal Race 111 Notes 113 Bibliography 119 Index 125 |
| Notes: | LCCN: 2002151046 ISBN: 0415943493 (acid-free paper) Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-123) and index |
| Physical Description: | ix, 128 p. ; 24 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 50761555 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 0415943493 |