{"id":36646,"date":"2014-06-06T22:59:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T22:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36646"},"modified":"2014-06-06T22:59:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T22:59:38","slug":"race-romance-and-rebellion-literatures-of-the-americas-in-the-nineteenth-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36646","title":{"rendered":"Race, Romance, and Rebellion: Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.upress.virginia.edu\/detail%2Fbooks%2Fgroup-4623.xml\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Race, Romance, and Rebellion: Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upress.virginia.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of Virginia Press<\/a><br \/>\nOctober 2013<br \/>\n224 pages<br \/>\n6 x 9<br \/>\nCloth ISBN: 9780813934884<br \/>\nPaper ISBN: 9780813934891<br \/>\nEbook ISBN: 9780813934907<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uscupstate.edu\/academics\/arts_sciences\/languages_literature\/default.aspx?id=22574\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Colleen C. O\u2019Brien<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>University of South Carolina, Upstate<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.upress.virginia.edu\/detail%2Fbooks%2Fgroup-4623.xml\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/books.upress.virginia.edu\/custom\/get-img.xqy?uri=\/covers\/4623.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As in many literatures of the New World grappling with issues of slavery and freedom, stories of racial insurrection frequently coincided with stories of cross-racial romance in nineteenth-century U.S. print culture. Colleen O\u2019Brien explores how authors such as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harriet_Ann_Jacobs\" target=\"_blank\">Harriet Jacobs<\/a>, Elizabeth Livermore, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gertrudis_G%C3%B3mez_de_Avellaneda\" target=\"_blank\">Gertrudis G\u00f3mez de Avellaneda<\/a> imagined the expansion of race and gender-based rights as a hemispheric affair, drawing together the United States with Africa, Cuba, and other parts of the Caribbean. Placing less familiar women writers in conversation with their more famous contemporaries\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson\" target=\"_blank\">Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margaret_Fuller\" target=\"_blank\">Margaret Fuller<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lydia_Maria_Child\" target=\"_blank\">Lydia Maria Child<\/a>\u2014O\u2019Brien traces the transnational progress of freedom through the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antebellum_era#Antebellum_Era_.281781.E2.80.931860.29\" target=\"_blank\">antebellum<\/a> cultural fascination with cross-racial relationships and insurrections. Her book mines a variety of sources\u2014fiction, political rhetoric, popular journalism, race science, and biblical treatises\u2014to reveal a common concern: a future in which romance and rebellion engender radical social and political transformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race, Romance, and Rebellion: Literatures of the Americas in the Nineteenth Century University of Virginia Press October 2013 224 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 9780813934884 Paper ISBN: 9780813934891 Ebook ISBN: 9780813934907 Colleen C. O\u2019Brien, Associate Professor of English University of South Carolina, Upstate As in many literatures of the New World grappling with issues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,11,21,1196,8,17,20],"tags":[17466,17467,673,5816,670,930,1216],"class_list":["post-36646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-books","category-latincarib","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-colleen-c-obrien","tag-colleen-obrien","tag-cuba","tag-elizabeth-livermore","tag-gertrudis-gomez-de-avellaneda","tag-harriet-jacobs","tag-university-of-virginia-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36646","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=36646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}