Barriers between us : interracial sex in nineteenth-century American literature /

Main Author: Jackson, Cassandra, 1972-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2004.
Series:Blacks in the diaspora
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Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=155654
Table of Contents:
  • Race and nation in nineteenth-century interracial fictions
  • 1. The Last of the Mohicans or the First of the Mulattos? Slavery and native American removal in Cooper's American frontier
  • 2. A land without names: national anxiety in The slave; or, Memoirs of Archy Moore
  • 3. Reconstructing America in Lydia Maria Child's A romance of the republic and Frances E.W. Harper's Minnie's sacrifice
  • 4. Doubles in Eden in George Washington's Cable's The grandissimes
  • 5. "I will gladly share with them my richer heritage": schoolteachers in Frances E.W. Harper's Iola Leroy and Charles Chestnutt's Mandy Oxendine
  • Formulating a national self.