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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b10061374.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 523-560) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Black--White--Both--Neither--In-Between 3 -- 1. Origins; or, Paradise Dawning 31 -- 2. Natus AEthiopus/Natus Albus 48 -- 3. The Curse of Ham; or, From "Generation" to "Race" 78 -- 4. The Calculus of Color 112 -- 5. The Bluish Tinge in the Halfmoon; or, Fingernails as a Racial Sign 142 -- 6. Code Noir and Literature 162 -- 7. Retellings: Mercenaries and Abolitionists 188 -- 8. Excursus on the "Tragic Mulatto"; or, The Fate of a Stereotype 220 -- 9. Passing; or, Sacrificing a Parvenu 246 -- 10. Incest and Miscegenation 285 -- Endings 336 -- Appendix A A Chronology of Interracial Literature 361 -- Appendix B Prohibitions of Interracial Marriage and Cohabitation 395.".
- catalog description "The discussions are accompanied by many illustrations, inviting comparisons between literature and the visual arts.".
- catalog description "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."".
- catalog extent "xvii, 574 p. :".
- catalog identifier "019505282X (cloth : acid-free paper)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "809/.93355 20".
- catalog subject "Comparative literature.".
- catalog subject "Literature, Comparative.".
- catalog subject "Miscegenation in literature.".
- catalog subject "PN56.R16 S66 1997".
- catalog subject "Passing (Identity) in literature.".
- catalog subject "Race in literature.".
- catalog subject "Racially mixed people in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Black--White--Both--Neither--In-Between 3 -- 1. Origins; or, Paradise Dawning 31 -- 2. Natus AEthiopus/Natus Albus 48 -- 3. The Curse of Ham; or, From "Generation" to "Race" 78 -- 4. The Calculus of Color 112 -- 5. The Bluish Tinge in the Halfmoon; or, Fingernails as a Racial Sign 142 -- 6. Code Noir and Literature 162 -- 7. Retellings: Mercenaries and Abolitionists 188 -- 8. Excursus on the "Tragic Mulatto"; or, The Fate of a Stereotype 220 -- 9. Passing; or, Sacrificing a Parvenu 246 -- 10. Incest and Miscegenation 285 -- Endings 336 -- Appendix A A Chronology of Interracial Literature 361 -- Appendix B Prohibitions of Interracial Marriage and Cohabitation 395.".
- catalog title "Neither black nor white yet both : thematic explorations of interracial literature / Werner Sollors.".
- catalog type "text".