Race and nation in nineteenth-century interracial fictions -- 1. The Last of the Mohicans or the First of the Mulattos? Slavery and native American removal in Cooper's American frontier -- 2. A land without names: national anxiety in The slave; or, Memoirs of Archy Moore -- 3. Reconstructing America in Lydia Maria Child's A romance of the republic and Frances E.W. Harper's Minnie's sacrifice -- 4. Doubles in Eden in George Washington's Cable's The grandissimes -- 5. "I will gladly share with them my richer heritage": schoolteachers in Frances E.W. Harper's Iola Leroy and Charles Chestnutt's Mandy Oxendine -- Formulating a national self.
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A vigorous discussion of 19th-century fiction about the role of racial ideology in the creation of an American identity.
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Title
Barriers between us.
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0253217334
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Interracial sex in nineteenth-century American literature
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
American fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.