Segregated Miscegenation: On the Treatment of Racial Hybridity in the North American and Latin American Literary Traditions

by Hiraldo,Carlos

• ISBN13: 9780415943499
• ISBN10: 0415943493
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-02-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Through the comparative study of literatures from the United States and Latin America,Segregated Miscegenationquestions received notions of race and nation. Carlos Hiraldo examines the current understanding of race in the United States alongside alternative models of racial self-definition in Latin America. His provocative analysis traces the conceptualization of blackness in fiction and theories of the novel, and troubles the racial and ethnic categories particular to each region's literary tradition.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: Coloring Latinos, Coloring the United States	1	(1)
The Novel as Popular Culture	1	(1)
Race in Latin America	1	(2)
Latinos as a U.S. Race	3	(2)
The Novel in the Dissemination and Reconfiguration of Notions about Race	5	(4)
Novel Concepts: The Role of the Novel in Developing Ideas of Nation and Race in the Americas	9	(22)
Mikhail Bakhtin, Georg Lukacs, and the ``New World'' of the Novel	9	(5)
Benedict Anderson and the Novel as a Tool of National Imagination	14	(2)
Fredric Jameson and the Many Worlds in the Americas	16	(5)
Novels and the Fictionalization of Racial Attitudes	21	(10)
Enslaved Characters: Nineteenth-Century Abolitionist Novels and the Absence of Bi-racial Consciousness	31	(24)
Differences between Bi-racial and Mulatto Characters	31	(1)
The Myth of Racial Purity versus the Dreams of a Miscegenated Paradise	32	(4)
The Limitations of Nineteenth-Century Racial Representations	36	(2)
Uncle Tom's Cabin and Bi-racial Characters in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Latin American Literatures	38	(4)
Sab as a Nineteenth-Century Cuban Romantic Tale about Race	42	(2)
The Complicit Ignorance of Cecilia Valdes	44	(2)
A Thin Line between Black and White in Martin Morua Delgado's Sofia and Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson	46	(5)
Race without Romance in Antonio Zambrana's El negro Francisco	51	(4)
Mulatto Fictions: Representations of Identity-Consciousness in U.S. and Latin American Bi-racial Characters	55	(30)
Mulatto Characters as Racial and Cultural Nexus	55	(3)
Passing the Tragic Mulatta in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature	58	(5)
Gabriela and the Sexualized Mulatta in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature	63	(5)
Pobre negro, The Violent Land, and the Limits of Mulatto Characters in Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature	68	(4)
Joe Christmas and the Unmerry Existence of Mulatto Characters in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature	72	(6)
Go Down, Moses and the Mumbled Recognition of Racial Confluence in the United States	78	(2)
The Bluest Eye and the Persistence of Anti-mulatto Fiction in the United States	80	(5)
Identity Against the Grain: Latino Authors of African European Heritage and Their Encounters with the Racial Ideology of the United States	85	(22)
Latino Authors and the ``One Drop'' Rule	85	(2)
Piri Thomas, Julia Alvarez, and the Limitations of Choosing Sides in the U.S. Racial Divide	87	(14)
Esmeralda Santiago and Negi's Persistent Puertoricanness in the Face of the ``One Drop'' Rule	101	(6)
Choosing Your Own Face: Future Trends of Racial Discourses in the United States	107	(6)
Latino Influence in Other Cultural Products	107	(2)
The Latin American Racial Paradigm behind the ``Wigga''	109	(2)
The Rock, Tiger Woods, and a Universal Race	111	(2)
Notes	113	(6)
Bibliography	119	(6)
Index	125