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Tag: William Wells Brown
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This dissertation mines the intersection of racial performance and the history of the so-called “tragic mulatto” figure in American fiction. I propose that while many white writers depicted the “mulatto” character as inherently flawed because of some tainted “black blood,” many black writers’ depictions of mixed-race characters imagine solutions to the race problem.
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The Escape centers on the attempted sexual violation of a slave and involves many characters of mixed race, through which Brown commented on such themes as moral decay, white racism, and black self-determination. Rich in action and faithful in dialect, it raises issues relating not only to race but also to gender by including concepts…
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‘William Wells Brown,’ by Ezra Greenspan The New York Times Sunday Book Review 2014-11-14 Nell Irvin Painter, Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita Princeton University Greenspan, Ezra, William Wells Brown: An African American Life (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014) If the publishing industry reflects the American zeitgeist, things have changed when it…
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William Wells Brown: An African American Life W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. October 2014 624 pages 6.6 × 9.6 in Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-393-24090-0 Ezra Greenspan, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of English Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas A groundbreaking biography of the most pioneering and accomplished African-American writer of the nineteenth century.…
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Clotel or, The President’s Daughter Penguin Press 2003-12-30 (First published in December 1853) 320 Pages Paperback ISBN: 9780142437728 ePub ISBN: 9781440626616 William Wells Brown (1814–1884) Introduction by: M. Giulia Fabi, Associate professor of American literature University of Ferrara, Italy First published in December 1853, Clotel was written amid then unconfirmed rumors that Thomas Jefferson had…
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William Wells Brown: A Reader University of Georgia Press 2008-12-15 488 pages 6 b&w photos Trim size: 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-3223-9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-3224-6 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-8203-3634-3 William Wells Brown (1814–1884) Edited by: Ezra Greenspan, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of English Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas Born into slavery in…
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“A Very Different Looking Class of People”: Racial Passing, Tragedy, and the Mulatto Citizen in American Literature University of Southern Mississippi 2013-02-18 81 pages Stephanie S. Rambo Honors Prospectus Submitted to the Honors College of The University of Southern Mississippi In Fulfillment Bachelors of Arts In the Department of English This project explores the mulatto…
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Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel University of Illinois Press 2001 208 pages 6 x 9 in. Paper ISBN: 978-0-252-07248-2 M. Giulia Fabi, Associate professor of American literature University of Ferrara, Italy Revealing the role of light-skinned black characters passing for white in African American literature A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2003…