Colleen C. O'Brien

Race, Romance, and Rebellion (eBook, ePUB)

Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 the antebellum cultural fascination with cross-racial relationships and insurrections. Her book mines a variety of sources-fiction, political rhetoric, popular journalism, race science, and biblical treatises-to reveal a common concern: a future in which romance and rebellion engender radical social and political transformation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780813934907
• Artikelnr.: 40805475

Autorenporträt

Colleen C. O'Brien is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, Upstate.