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Neither Black Nor White Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature

Neither Black Nor White Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature

Paperback

Literary CriticismGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0674607805
ISBN13: 9780674607804
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: Oct 15 1999
Pages: 592
Weight: 1.78
Height: 1.05 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

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.

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