The mulatta and the politics of race /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Zackodnik, Teresa C.
Imprint:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2004.
Description:	xxxii, 235 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism. Race in literature. American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Political fiction, American -- History and criticism. African American women -- Intellectual life. Politics and literature -- United States. Women and literature -- United States. Racially mixed people in literature. Race relations in literature. Racism in literature. Women in literature. African American women -- Intellectual life. American fiction -- African American authors. American fiction -- Women authors. Political fiction, American. Politics and literature. Race in literature. Race relations in literature. Racially mixed people in literature. Racism in literature. Women and literature. Women in literature. United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5518944

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ISBN:	157806676X (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-227) and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Fixing the Color Line: The Mulatta, American Courts, and the Racial Imaginary
2. "White Slaves" and Tragic Mulattas: The Antislavery Appeals of Ellen Craft and Sarah Parker Remond
3. Little Romances and Mulatta Heroines: Passing for a "True Woman" in Frances Harper's Iola Leroy and Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces
4. Commodified "Blackness" and Performative Possibilities in Jessie Fauset's The Chinaberry Tree and Nella Larsen's Quicksand
5. Passing Transgressions, Excess, and Authentic Identity in Jessie Fauset's Plum Bun and Nella Larsen's Passing
Epilogue: The "Passing Out" of Passing and the Mulatta?
Notes
Works Cited
Index

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