Mixing Race, Mixing Culture: Inter-American Literary Dialogues

Over the last five centuries, the story of the Americas has been a story of the mixing of races and cultures. Not surprisingly, the issue of miscegenation, with its attendant fears and hopes, has been a pervasive theme in New World literature, as writers from Canada to Argentina confront the legacy of cultural hybridization and fusion. This book takes up the challenge of transforming American literary and cultural studies into a comparative discipline by examining the dynamics of racial and cultural mixture and its opposite tendency, racial and cultural disjunction, in the literatures of the Americas. Editors Kaup and Rosenthal have brought together a distinguished set of scholars who compare the treatment of racial and cultural mixtures in literature from North America, the Caribbean, and Latin America. From various angles, they remap the Americas as a multicultural and multiracial hemisphere, with a common history of colonialism, slavery, racism, and racial and cultural hybridity.

Author: Monika Kaup
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 08/01/2002
Pages: 324
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.08w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780292743489

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2003 pg. 978

About the Author
Monika Kaup is Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington, Seattle. Debra J. Rosenthal is Associate Professor of English at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.