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Race, Romance, and Rebellion: Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century (New World Studies) by O'Brien, Colleen C. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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As in many literatures of the New World grappling with issues of slavery and freedom, stories of racial insurrection frequently coincided with stories of cross-racial romance in nineteenth-century U.S. print culture. Colleen O'Brien explores how authors such as Harriet Jacobs, Elizabeth Livermore, and Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda imagined the expansion of race and gender-based rights as a hemispheric affair, drawing together the United States with Africa, Cuba, and other parts of the Caribbean. Placing less familiar women writers in conversation with their more famous contemporaries--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Lydia Maria Child-O'Brien traces the transnational progress of freedom through the antebellum cultural fascination with cross-racial relationships and insurrections. Her book mines a variety of sources--fiction, political rhetoric, popular journalism, race science, and biblical treatises--to reveal a common concern: a future in which romance and rebellion engender radical social and political transformation. -- Publisher website.
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- Author
- O'Brien, Colleen C.
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780813934907
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, History
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (2 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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