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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Mafe, D

Titel

Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature : Coloring Outside the (Black and White) Lines [electronic resource]

Auflage

1st ed. 2013

Ort / Verlag

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-187) and index.
• Tainted blood: the tragic mulatto tradition -- God's stepchildren: the tragedy of being a halfbreed in South African literature -- An unlovely woman: Bessie Head's mulatta (re)vision -- A little yellow bastard boy: Arthur Nortje's mulatto manhood -- Tragic to magic?: Achmat Dangor's bitter fruit -- Conclusion: Playing in the light.
• Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature examines the popular literary stereotype, the tragic mulatto, from a transnational perspective. Mafe considers the ways in which specific South African and American writers have used this controversial literary character to challenge the logic of racial categorization.
• English