Mixed bloods and other crosses : rethinking American literature from the Revolution to the culture wars /

Mixed bloods and other crosses : rethinking American literature from the Revolution to the culture wars / Betsy Erkkila.

"In Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses, Betsy Erkkila argues that it is through the historical and psychological dramas of blood as a marker of violence, or race, or sex, or kinship that Americans have struggled over the meanings of democracy, citizenship, culture, national belonging, and the idea...

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Main Author: Erkkila, Betsy, 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2005]
Subjects:
American literature > History and criticism.
Literature and society > United States.
Racially mixed people in literature.
Social conflict in literature.
Minorities in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
Violence in literature.
Racism in literature.
Racism.
Simmons University. > Library. > Gifts. Pooler
Table of Contents:
  • Blood, sex, and other American crosses
  • Mixed bloods: Jefferson, revolution, and the boundaries of America
  • Revolutionary women
  • The poetics of whiteness: Poe and the racial imaginary
  • Whitman and the homosexual republic
  • Emily Dickinson and class
  • Beyond the boundaries: C.L.R. James to Herman Melville.

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