TY  - GEN
T1  - The blue stain : a novel of a racial outcast
T2  - Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
A1  - Bettauer, Hugo, 1872-1925
A2  - Höyng, Peter
A2  - Höyng, Peter
A2  - Mellor, Chauncey J., 1942-
A2  - Janken, Kenneth Robert, 1956-
LA  - English
LA  - German
PP  - Rochester, New York
PB  - Camden House
YR  - 2017
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1004424399
AB  - "Hugo Bettauer's The Blue Stain, a novel of racial mixing and "passing," starts and ends in Georgia but also takes the reader to Vienna and New York. First published in 1922, the novel tells the story of Carletto, son of a white European academic and an African-American daughter of former slaves, who, having passed as white in Europe and fled to America after losing his fortune, resists being seen as "black" before ultimately accepting that identity and joining the early movement for civil rights. Never before translated into English, this is the first novel in which a German-speaking European author addresses early twentieth-century racial politics in the United States--not only in the South but also in the North. There is an irony, however: while Bettauer's narrative aims to sanction a white/European egalitarianism with respect to race, it nevertheless exhibits its own brand of racism by asserting that African Americans need extensive enculturation before they are to be valued as human beings. The novel therefore serves as a unique historical account of transnational and transcultural racial attitudes of the period that continue to reverberate in our present globalized world."--
OP  - 146
NO  - Translated from the German.
CN  - PT2603.E857 B413 2017eb
SN  - 9781787440876
SN  - 1787440877
SN  - 9781782049975
SN  - 1782049975
SN  - 9781571139825
SN  - 1571139826
KW  - Multiracial people : Fiction.
KW  - Civil rights movements : United States : Fiction.
KW  - Race relations : Fiction.
KW  - Mouvements des droits de l'homme : États-Unis : Romans, nouvelles, etc.
KW  - Relations raciales : Romans, nouvelles, etc.
KW  - FICTION : General.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : German.
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Multiracial people
KW  - United States
KW  - African American.
KW  - African Studies.
KW  - American literature.
KW  - Austria.
KW  - Black history.
KW  - Civil Rights.
KW  - Ethnicity.
KW  - German History.
KW  - German literature.
KW  - Germany.
KW  - Minority.
KW  - Modern History.
KW  - Race.
KW  - Racism.
KW  - Slavery.
KW  - Social Justice.
KW  - Translation.
KW  - US History.
KW  - United States.
KW  - Fiction
ER  -