{"id":35157,"date":"2013-12-23T18:30:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T18:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35157"},"modified":"2013-12-23T18:30:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T18:30:02","slug":"miscegenetic-melville-race-and-reconstruction-in-clarel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35157","title":{"rendered":"Miscegenetic Melville: Race and Reconstruction in Clarel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miscegenetic Melville: Race and Reconstruction in Clarel<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Zach Hutchins<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of English
\nColorado State University<\/em><\/p>\n

ELH<\/a>
\nVolume 80, Number 4, Winter 2013<\/a>
\npages 1173-1203
\nDOI: 10.1353\/elh.2013.0039<\/a><\/p>\n

This essay investigates Herman Melville\u2019s<\/a> views on Reconstruction<\/a> and racism in Clarel<\/a><\/em>, the national epic published in the centennial year of 1876. In Clarel<\/em>, Melville points toward miscegenation<\/a> as the solution to problems of ethnic conflict festering since the Civil War<\/a>, the key to rebuilding a nation torn apart by the economic exploitation and lingering racism of Reconstruction. Miscegenation is an ideal Melville pointed to somewhat na\u00efvely in his earlier prose, but Clarel<\/em> is Melville\u2019s most sustained narrative commentary on race published after Benito Cereno<\/a><\/em> and reflects a more sober assessment of racial realities and possibilities in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Miscegenetic Melville: Race and Reconstruction in Clarel Zach Hutchins, Assistant Professor of English Colorado State University ELH Volume 80, Number 4, Winter 2013 pages 1173-1203 DOI: 10.1353\/elh.2013.0039 This essay investigates Herman Melville\u2019s views on Reconstruction and racism in Clarel, the national epic published in the centennial year of 1876. In Clarel, Melville points toward miscegenation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8,20],"tags":[16617,16616,925,16615],"class_list":["post-35157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-clarel","tag-elh","tag-herman-melville","tag-zach-hutchins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}