Neither Black nor White yet Both

Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

AvWerner Sollors

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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 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 origins of the term “race” to the cultural sources of the “Tragic Mulatto,” and from the calculus of color to the retellings of various plots, Sollors examines what we know about race, analyzing recurrent motifs in scientific and legal works as well as in fiction, drama, and poetry.

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Utgivningsdatum1999-10-15
Mått156 x 235 x 35 mm
Vikt753 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor592
FörlagHarvard University Press
ISBN9780674607804

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List of Illustrations Introduction: Black--White--Both--Neither--In-Between 1. Origins; or, Paradise Dawning 2. Natus Aethiopus/Natus Albus 3. The Curse of Ham; or, From "Generation" to "Race" 4. The Calculus of Color 5. The Bluish Tinge in the Halfmoon; or, Fingernails as a Racial Sign 6. Code Noir and Literature 7. Retellings: Mercenaries and Abolitionists 8. Excursus on the "Tragic Mulatto"; or, The Fate of a Stereotype 9. Passing; or, Sacrificing a Parvenu 10. Incest and Miscegenation Endings Appendix A: A Chronology of Interracial Literature Appendix B: Prohibitions of Interracial Marriage arid Cohabitation Notes Selected Bibliography Index

Sollors limns the discourse on race that dominated the world that each text entered, and presents what passed for ‘scientific’ knowledge at the time, thereby shedding light on the cultural work accomplished by each novel or poem. He also shows how the same basic stories have been retold by different writers, each reshaping and transforming the tale in light of the racial politics of his or her own time...Neither Black nor White yet Both, a stunning achievement, will be of interest to anyone who cares about race and culture.

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