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Imperfect unions : staging miscegenation in U.S. drama and fiction /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Paulin, Diana Rebekkah
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Subjects:
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Miscegenation in literature.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century.
Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Racially mixed people in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Race in literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Setting the stage: The Black-white binary in an imperfect union
  • Under the covers of forbidden desire: interracial unions as surrogates
  • Clear definitions for an anxious world: late nineteenth-century surrogacy
  • Staging the unspoken terror
  • The remix: Afro-Indian intimacies
  • The futurity of miscegenation
  • Conclusion: the "sex factor"and twenty-first century stagings of miscegenation.