Language: en
Pages: 596
Pages: 596
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"
Language: en
Pages: 488
Pages: 488
DIVAn anthology of articles from periodicals of the 1890s, chosen to reflect various aspects of American culture during the last fin-de-siecle./div
Language: en
Pages: 232
Pages: 232
Uncovering powerful and threatening secrets in African American literature
Language: en
Pages: 277
Pages: 277
The book describes the movement by African American authors from slave narratives and antebellum newspapers into fiction writing, and the subsequent developments of black genre fiction through the present. It analyzes works by modern African American mystery writers, focusing on sleuths, the social locations of crime, victims and offenders, the
Language: en
Pages: 668
Pages: 668
Analyzing such cultural practices as selling and shopping, political and social activism, urban field work and rural labor, radical discourses on feminine sexuality, and literary and artistic experimentation, this volume contributes to the rich vein of current feminist scholarship on the "gender of modernism" and challenges the assumption that modernism