Neither Black nor White yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (908 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674607805 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 592 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Werner Sollors is Henry B
Sollors limns the discourse on race that dominated the world that each text entered, and presents what passed for 'scientific' knowledge at the time, thereby shedding light on the cultural work accomplished by each novel or poem. He also shows how the same basic stories have been retold by different writers, each reshaping and transforming the tale in light of the racial politics of his or her own timeNeither Black nor White yet Both, a stunning achievement, will be of interest to anyone who cares about race and culture. (Eric Sundquist, Northwestern University) . Sollors proves, in voluminous detail, that the various William Faulkners and Nella Larsens now well know in academic circles rest on the vast, deep foundation of a national obsession. (Shelley Fisher Fishkin, University of Texas, Austin)Any reader who thinks that novels, plays, and po
Amazon Customer said Excellent exploration of mixed-race literature. Excellent exploration of mixed-race literature.This book rescues literature by and about mixed-race (Mulattoes and mixed-whites) people from the myth that they are all exotic varieties of "black." The author also gives us the history of common myths about interracial mixture. This book should be read with Lawrence Tenzer's "The Forgotten Cause of the Civil War: A New . interesting text Mary J. Newbery Wonderful marriage of images and text that work to complicate the binaries of historical and contemporary US racial politics. A courageous piece.
Why can a "white" woman give birth to a "black" baby, while a "black" woman can never give birth to a "white" baby in the United States? What makes racial "passing" so different from social mobility? Why are interracial and incestuous relations often confused or conflated in literature, making "miscegenation" appear as if it were incest? Werner Sollors examines these questions and others in Neither Black nor White yet Both, a fully researched investigation of literary works that, in the past, have been read more for a black-white contrast of "either-or" than for an interracial realm of "neither, nor, both, and in-between." From the origins of the term "race" to the cultural sources of the "Tragic Mulatto," and from the calculus of color to the retellings of various plots, Sollors examines what we know about race, analyzing recurrent motifs in scientific and legal works as well as in fiction, drama, and poetry.