Race mixture in nineteenth-century U.S. and spanish american fictions : gender, culture, and nation building.
- Chapel Hill, N.C. : The University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
- x, 182 p. ; 23 cm.
Race mixture has played a formative role in the history of the Americas, from the western expansion of the United States to the political consolidation ofLatin America. This text examines 19th-century authors in the United States and Spanish America who struggled to give voice to contemporary dilemmas about interracial sexual and cultural mixing.
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American fiction--History and criticism.--19th century Miscegenation in literature. Spanish American fiction--History and criticism.--19th century Literature, Comparative--American and Spanish. Literature, Comparative--Spanish American and American. Racially mixed people in literature. Race relations in literature. Slavery in literature. Racism in literature. Race in literature. Literatura de ficción estadounidense--Historia y crítica Primera Jornada de Catalogacion.