Mixing Race, Mixing Culture: Inter-American Literary Dialogues

Mixing Race, Mixing Culture: Inter-American Literary Dialogues
ISBN-10
0292743483
ISBN-13
9780292743489
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
294
Language
English
Published
2002-08-15
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Authors
Debra Rosenthal, Monika Kaup

Description

Over the last five centuries, the story of the Americas has been a story of the mixing of races and cultures. Not surprisingly, the issue of miscegenation, with its attendant fears and hopes, has been a pervasive theme in New World literature, as writers from Canada to Argentina confront the legacy of cultural hybridization and fusion. This book takes up the challenge of transforming American literary and cultural studies into a comparative discipline by examining the dynamics of racial and cultural mixture and its opposite tendency, racial and cultural disjunction, in the literatures of the Americas. Editors Kaup and Rosenthal have brought together a distinguished set of scholars who compare the treatment of racial and cultural mixtures in literature from North America, the Caribbean, and Latin America. From various angles, they remap the Americas as a multicultural and multiracial hemisphere, with a common history of colonialism, slavery, racism, and racial and cultural hybridity.

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