Day: June 28, 2012

  • The Shadow of the Octoroon in T. E. Brown’s Christmas Rose Victorian Poetry Volume 38, Number 2, Summer 2000 pages 289-298 DOI: 10.1353/vp.2000.0023 Max Keith Sutton In Impossible Purities, Jennifer Brody writes that the multiracial “woman of color” in Victorian literature “both conceals and reveals conflicting ideas of difference.” The light skin of an octoroon,…

  • How William Faulkner Tackled Race — and Freed the South From Itself The New York Times 2012-06-28 John Jeremiah Sullivan A poll of well over a hundred writers and critics, taken a few years back by Oxford American magazine, named William Faulkner’s “Absalom, Absalom!” the “greatest Southern novel ever written,” by a decisive margin —…

  • Tales of the Old Indian Territory and Essays on the Indian Condition University of Nebraska Press 2012 680 pages ISBN: 978-0-8032-3792-6 John Milton Oskison (1874-1947) Edited and with an introduction by Lionel Larré, Associate Professor of English Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3 At the beginning of the twentieth century, Indian Territory, which would eventually…

  • ENGL 326: Representations of Miscegenations Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut Spring 2010 The course examines the notion of miscegenation (interracial relations), including how the term was coined and defined. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we will consider the different and conflicting ways that interracial relations have been represented, historically and contemporaneously, as well as the implications of…

  • Slippery Language and False Dilemmas: The Passing Novels of Child, Howells, and Harper American Literature Volume 75, Number 4, December 2003 pages 813-841 Julie Cary Nerad, Associate Professor of English Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland Conceived in slavery, gestated in racialist science, and bred in Jim Crow segregation, the U.S. race system calcified into a…