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NEITHER BLACK NOR WHITE YET BOTH Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature Paperback - 1997
by SOLLORS, WERNER
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Details
- Title NEITHER BLACK NOR WHITE YET BOTH Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature
- Author SOLLORS, WERNER
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1ST
- Condition Used - Fine
- Pages 592
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, MASS
- Date 1997
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # 048021
- ISBN 9780674607804 / 0674607805
- Weight 1.78 lbs (0.81 kg)
- Dimensions 9.2 x 6.14 x 1.05 in (23.37 x 15.60 x 2.67 cm)
- Reading level 1650
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Dewey Decimal Code 809.933
From the rear cover
Why can a "white" woman give birth to a "black" baby, while a "black" woman can never give birth to a "white" baby in the United States? What makes racial "passing" so different from social mobility? Why are interracial and incestuous relations often confused or conflated in literature, making "miscegenation" appear as if it were incest? Werner Sollors examines these questions and others in Neither Black nor White yet Both, a fully researched investigation of literary works that, in the past, have been read more for a black-white contrast of "either-or" than for an interracial realm of "neither, nor, both, and in-between". From the origins of the term "race" to the cultural sources of the "Tragic Mulatto", and from the calculus of color to the retellings of various plots, Sollors examines what we know about race, analyzing recurrent motifs in scientific and legal works as well as in fiction, drama, and poetry.