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Impurely white: Representations of racial contact in nineteenth-century American literature.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Impurely white: Representations of racial contact in nineteenth-century American literature./
Author:	MacBain, Tiffany Aldrich.
Description:	246 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Linda A. Morris.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-09A.
Subject:	Black Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3148477
ISBN:	9780496075133

Impurely white: Representations of racial contact in nineteenth-century American literature.
MacBain, Tiffany Aldrich.

Impurely white: Representations of racial contact in nineteenth-century American literature. - 246 p.

Adviser: Linda A. Morris.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2004.

This dissertation is a study of literary responses to nineteenth-century Anglo-American conventions of racial representation, particularly the tendency in white-authored literature symbolically to endow non-whiteness with a contaminative power over whiteness. Often the imagined threat---at its heart sexual in nature---was displaced in the literature and the culture onto two entities that in the white mind represented the contaminable quality of non-whiteness: blood and the miscegenous body. By categorizing a person's blood or racial composition as "black" or "red," Anglos insisted that whiteness was separate from and opposed to non-whiteness, even when mixed blood implied the contrary, and that racial categories symbolically defended whites against the deleterious effects they imagined to result from interracial contact.

ISBN: 9780496075133Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017673
Black Studies.

Impurely white: Representations of racial contact in nineteenth-century American literature.
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520 $a This dissertation is a study of literary responses to nineteenth-century Anglo-American conventions of racial representation, particularly the tendency in white-authored literature symbolically to endow non-whiteness with a contaminative power over whiteness. Often the imagined threat---at its heart sexual in nature---was displaced in the literature and the culture onto two entities that in the white mind represented the contaminable quality of non-whiteness: blood and the miscegenous body. By categorizing a person's blood or racial composition as "black" or "red," Anglos insisted that whiteness was separate from and opposed to non-whiteness, even when mixed blood implied the contrary, and that racial categories symbolically defended whites against the deleterious effects they imagined to result from interracial contact.
520 $a My project identifies moments of resistance to trends of racial representation in Anglo-American, African-American, and Native-American literature. I divide the project into two sections that pair texts by non-white- and white authors: Edgar Allan Poe with Zitkala-Sa; and Charles Chesnutt with Edith Wharton. In these works I argue that the images, themes, and strategies surrounding racial representations critically attributed to white-authored literature in fact characterize non-white-authored literature as well, with an important distinction: here whiteness assumes shadowy proportions as white and non-white writers, alike, grapple with the nature, (im)possibility, and (in)advisability of "pure" race in the United States.
520 $a Each of these texts contests the notion of white impenetrability and in fact represents whiteness as the agent rather than the object of racialized penetration and contamination. Yet by no means are the bodies in this study penetrated solely or even mainly in the sexual sense. More often miscegenation is a given, and the authors concern themselves with alternative materializations of the penetrative power of the racial other. They rely with remarkable consistency on a series of thoroughly racialized foreign "bodies," forms of matter like food, drugs, illness, and disease that are experienced as penetrative and contaminative. Like the miscegenous bodies at the center of each narrative, these racial agents testify to the futility of compartmentalizing race and hold Anglo Americans accountable for the cultural devaluation of non-whiteness.
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