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Why can a "white" woman give birth to a "black" baby, while a "black" woman can never give birth to a "white" baby in the United States? What makes racial "passing" so different from social mobility? Why are interracial and incestuous relations often confused or conflated in literature, making "miscegenation" appear as if it were incest?
Werner Sollors examines these questions and others in Neither Black Nor White Yet Both, a new and fully researched investigation of literary works that, in the past, have been read more for a black-white contrast of "either-or" than for an interracial realm of "neither, nor, both, and in-between.".
From the etymological origins of the term "race" to the cultural sources of the "Tragic Mulatto," and from the calculus of color to the retellings of an original plot, Sollors examines the theming of what we know about race.
The book analyzes recurrent motifs in scientific and legal works as well as in fiction, drama, and poetry, considering such authors as Heliodorus, John Stedman, Buffon, Thomas Jefferson, Heinrich von Kleist, Victor Hugo, Aleksandr Sergeevic Puskin, Hans Christian Andersen, Lydia Marie Child, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Wells Brown, Mark Twain, Charles Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, Cirilo Villaverde, Aluisio Azevedo, Pauline Hopkins, Langston Hughes, Jessie Fauset, William Faulkner, and Boris Vian.
The discussions are accompanied by many illustrations, inviting comparisons between literature and the visual arts.
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Comparative Literature, Literature, Comparative, Miscegenation in literature, Passing (Identity) in literature, Race in literature, Racially mixed people in literature, Race relations in literature, American literature, history and criticism, United states, race relations, Passing (Identité) dans la littérature, Literatur, Mulatten, Mulâtres dans la littérature, Métissage dans la littérature, Passing, Littérature comparée, Rassenmischung, Race dans la littérature, Letterkunde, Rassenverhoudingen, Identität, RassenfrageShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Neither Black nor White yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature
October 15, 1999, Harvard University Press
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Neither black nor white yet both: thematic explorations of interracial literature
1997, Oxford University Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 523-560) and index.
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