Race, Romance, and Rebellion: Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century Contributor(s): O'Brien, Colleen C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813934893 ISBN-13: 9780813934891 Publisher: University of Virginia Press OUR PRICE: $24.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American |
Dewey: 809.897 |
LCCN: 2013004487 |
Series: New World Studies (Paperback) |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.66 lbs) 224 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: As in many literatures of the New World grappling with issues of slavery and freedom, stories of racial insurrection frequently coincided with stories of cross-racial romance in nineteenth-century U.S. print culture. Colleen O'Brien explores how authors such as Harriet Jacobs, Elizabeth Livermore, and Gertrudis G mez de Avellaneda imagined the expansion of race and gender-based rights as a hemispheric affair, drawing together the United States with Africa, Cuba, and other parts of the Caribbean. Placing less familiar women writers in conversation with their more famous contemporaries--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Lydia Maria Child--O'Brien traces the transnational progress of freedom through the antebellum cultural fascination with cross-racial relationships and insurrections. Her book mines a variety of sources--fiction, political rhetoric, popular journalism, race science, and biblical treatises--to reveal a common concern: a future in which romance and rebellion engender radical social and political transformation. |