ABSTRACT
Through the comparative study of literatures from the United States and Latin America, Segregated Miscegenation questions received notions of race and nation. Carlos Hiraldo examines the current understanding of race in the United States alongside alternative models of racial self-definition in Latin America. His provocative analysis traces the conceptualization of blackness in fiction and theories of the novel, and troubles the racial and ethnic categories particular to each region's literary tradition.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |21 pages
Novel Concepts
The Role of the Novel in Developing Ideas of Nation and Race in the Americas
chapter |23 pages
Enslaved Characters
Nineteenth-Century Abolitionist Novels and the Absence of Bi-racial Consciousness
chapter |30 pages
Mulatto Fictions
Representations of Identity-Consciousness in U.S. and Latin American Bi-racial Characters
chapter |22 pages
Identity Against the Grain
Latino Authors of African European Heritage and Their Encounters with the Racial Ideology of the United States
