TY - GEN T1 - Imperfect unions : staging miscegenation in U.S. drama and fiction A1 - Paulin, Diana Rebekkah LA - English PP - Minneapolis PB - University of Minnesota Press YR - 2012 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_ocn815476606 AB - "Imperfect Unions examines the vital role that nineteenth- and twentieth-century dramatic and literary enactments played in the constitution and consolidation of race in the United States. Diana Rebekkah Paulin investigates how these representations produced, and were produced by, the black-white binary that informed them in a wide variety of texts written across the period between the Civil War and World War I--by Louisa May Alcott, Thomas Dixon, J. Rosamond Johnson, Charles Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, William Dean Howells, and many others. Paulin's "miscegenated reading practices" reframe the critical cultural roles that drama and fiction played during this significant half century. She demonstrates the challenges of crossing intellectual boundaries, echoing the crossings--of race, gender, nation, class, and hemisphere--that complicated the black-white divide at the turn of the twentieth century and continue to do so today. Imperfect Unions reveals how our ongoing discussions about race are also dialogues about nation formation. As the United States attempted to legitimize its own global ascendancy, the goal of eliminating evidence of inferiority became paramount. At the same time, however, the foundation of the United States was linked to slavery that served as reminders of its "mongrel" origins."-- OP - 315 CN - PS217.M57 P38 2012eb SN - 0816680175 SN - 9780816680177 SN - 9781452947204 SN - 1452947201 SN - 9780816670987 SN - 0816670986 SN - 9780816670994 SN - 0816670994 KW - American literature : 19th century : History and criticism. KW - Miscegenation (Racist theory) in literature. KW - American literature : 20th century : History and criticism. KW - Literature and society : United States : History : 19th century. KW - Literature and society : United States : History : 20th century. KW - Multiracial people in literature. KW - Race relations in literature. KW - Race in literature. KW - Littérature américaine : 19e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Métissage dans la littérature. KW - Littérature américaine : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Littérature et société : États-Unis : Histoire : 19e siècle. KW - Littérature et société : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Relations raciales dans la littérature. KW - Race dans la littérature. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : General. KW - American literature KW - Literature and society KW - Miscegenation (Racist theory) in literature KW - Race in literature KW - Race relations in literature KW - Multiracial people in literature KW - United States KW - Drama KW - Roman KW - Rassenmischung KW - USA KW - 1800-1999 KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - History ER -