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Race, Romance and Rebellion
Colleen C. O'brien
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Description for Race, Romance and Rebellion
Paperback. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 299.
As in many literatures of the New World grappling with issues of slavery and freedom, stories of racial insurrection frequently coincided with stories of cross-racial romance in nineteenth-century U.S. print culture. Colleen O’Brien explores how authors such as Harriet Jacobs, Elizabeth Livermore, and Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda imagined the expansion of race and gender-based rights as a hemispheric affair, drawing together the United States with Africa, Cuba, and other parts of the Caribbean. Placing less familiar women writers in conversation with their more famous contemporaries—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Lydia Maria Child—O’Brien traces the transnational progress of freedom through ... Read more
As in many literatures of the New World grappling with issues of slavery and freedom, stories of racial insurrection frequently coincided with stories of cross-racial romance in nineteenth-century U.S. print culture. Colleen O’Brien explores how authors such as Harriet Jacobs, Elizabeth Livermore, and Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda imagined the expansion of race and gender-based rights as a hemispheric affair, drawing together the United States with Africa, Cuba, and other parts of the Caribbean. Placing less familiar women writers in conversation with their more famous contemporaries—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Lydia Maria Child—O’Brien traces the transnational progress of freedom through ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
New World Studies
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813934891
SKU
V9780813934891
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About Colleen C. O'brien
Colleen C. O’Brien is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, Upstate, USA.
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