Category: Literary/Artistic Criticism

  • ‘Going out of stock’: Mulattoes and Levantines in Italian literature and cinema of the Fascist period University of Connecticut 2008 255 pages Publication Number: AAT 3329116 ISBN: 9780549826118 Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut My dissertation examines,…

  • Race and Class in Political Science Michigan Journal of Race and Law Volume 11, Issue 1 (Fall 2005) pages 99-114 Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University As a discipline, political science tends to have a split personality on the issue of whether…

  • Mixed Britannia, BBC Two, review The Telegraph 2011-10-06 Josephine Moulds Josephine Moulds reviews the first episode of BBC Two’s documentary Mixed Britannia, presented by George Alagiah. The first part of an ambitious documentary series, Mixed Britannia, ran last night, continuing BBC Two’s season about mixed-race life in the UK. Over the course of three programmes,…

  • Joe Christmas and the Chamber of Secrets – The Black/ White Dilemma in William Faulkner’s Light in August Africa Resource 2010-04-04 21 paragraphs Isabel Adonis, Writer and Artist I read William Faulkner’s Light in August in my early teens and I scarcely understood it.  But I understood something and many years later a woman at…

  • Stories and survival’: An Interview with Jackie Kay Wasafiri Volume 25, Issue 4, 2010 pages 19-22 DOI: 10.1080/02690055.2010.510366 Maggie Gee Jackie Kay has had a glittering career as a writer of poetry, fiction and drama for both adults and children. She was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1961 to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian…

  • The “Inky Curse”: Miscegenation in the White American Literary Imagination Social Science Information Volume 22, Number 2 (March 1983) pages 169-190 DOI: 10.1177/053901883022002002 Daniel Aaron, Victor S. Thomas Professor of English and American Literature, Emeritus Harvard University To dramatize my lurid title, I begin by quoting from and paraphrasing a letter written in 1889 to…

  • “Never Was Born”: The Mulatto, an American Tragedy? The Massachusetts Review Volume 27, Number 2 (Summer, 1986) page 293-316 Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Afro American Studies; Director of the History of American Civilization Program Harvard University In my first marriage I paid my compliments to my…

  • Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark as a Trans-Atlantic Tragic Mulatta Narrative Sargasso: Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language, and Culture Volume I (2009-2010) pages 79-92 Ania Spyra, Assistant Professor of English Butler University “pretty useful mask that white one.” —Jean Rhys, Voyage In the Dark Images of masks and masking surface repeatedly in Jean Rhys’s…

  • Red and White: Miss E. Pauline Johnson Tekahionwake and the Other Woman Women’s Writing Volume 8, Issue 3 (2001) pages 359-374 DOI: 10.1080/09699080100200140 Anne Collett, Associate Professor of English Literature University of Wollongong, Australia This essay examines the dramatised conflictual relationship between “Red” and “White” selves in the performed and literary body of “half-blood” poet,…

  • Editorial: The Illusion of Inclusion Wasafiri Volume 25, Issue 4 (2010) pages 1-6 DOI: 10.1080/02690055.2010.510357 This special issue of Wasafiri – ‘Black Britain: Beyond Definition’ – focuses on writers who are of black and mixed heritage. Labelling us in this way can, of course, be problematic. The badge ‘black writer’ or ‘Black British writer’ or…