Mixing Race, Mixing Culture

Inter-American Literary Dialogues

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

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Beskrivning

Over the last five centuries, the story of the Americas has been a story of the mixing of races and cultures. Not surprisingly, the issue of miscegenation, with its attendant fears and hopes, has been a pervasive theme in New World literature, as writers from Canada to Argentina confront the legacy of cultural hybridization and fusion. This book takes up the challenge of transforming American literary and cultural studies into a comparative discipline by examining the dynamics of racial and cultural mixture and its opposite tendency, racial and cultural disjunction, in the literatures of the Americas. Editors Kaup and Rosenthal have brought together a distinguished set of scholars who compare the treatment of racial and cultural mixtures in literature from North America, the Caribbean, and Latin America. From various angles, they remap the Americas as a multicultural and multiracial hemisphere, with a common history of colonialism, slavery, racism, and racial and cultural hybridity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2002-08-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:324
Förlag:University of Texas Press
ISBN:9780292743489

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Monika Kaup is Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington, Seattle. Debra J. Rosenthal is Associate Professor of English at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Recensioner i media

"I have nothing but praise for this book. It is well conceived, it shows that it was not put together hastily, it incorporates the latest scholarship, and it engages in the latest contemporary debates in the field... Its 'Pan-American' approach is one that reflects the cutting edge of the field of Latin American and Latina/Latino Studies." Rolando J. Romero, Associate Professor of Latina/Latino Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments Introduction I. Mixed-Blood Epistemologies 1. Werner Sollors. Can Rabbits Have Interracial Sex? 2. Doris Sommer. Who Can Tell? The Blanks in Villaverde 3. Zita Nunes. Phantasmatic Brazil: Nella Larsen's Passing, American Literary Imagination, and Racial Utopianism II. MÉtissage and Counterdiscourse 4. FranÇoise Lionnet. Narrating the Americas: Transcolonial MÉtissage and Maryse CondÉ's La Migration des coeurs5. MichÈle Praeger. CrÉolitÉ or Ambiguity? III. Indigenization, Miscegenation, and Nationalism 6. Priscilla Archibald. Gender and Mestizaje in the Andes 7. Debra J. Rosenthal. Race Mixture and the Representation of Indians in the U.S. and the Andes: CumandÁ, Aves sin nido, The Last of the Mohicans, and Ramona8. Susan Gillman, The Squatter, the Don, and the Grandissimes in Our America IV. Hybrid Hybridity 9. Rafael PÉrez-Torres. Chicano Ethnicity, Cultural Hybridity, and the Mestizo Voice 10. Monika Kaup. Constituting Hybridity as Hybrid: MÉtis Canadian and Mexican American Formations V. Sites of Memory in Mixed-Race Autobiography 11. Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Living on the River 12. Louis Owens. The Syllogistic Mixedblood: How Roland Barthes Saved Me from the indiansCoda: From Exoticism to Mixed-Blood Humanism 13. Earl E. Fitz. From Blood to Culture: Miscegenation as Metaphor for the Americas Contributors Works Cited Index