Barriers Between Us: Interracial Sex in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

by Alan Ramsey and Cassandra Jackson

This provocative book examines the representation of characters of mixed African and European descent in the works of African American and European American writers of the 19th century. The importance of mulatto figures as agents of ideological exchange in the American literary tradition has yet to receive sustained critical attention. Going beyond Sterling Brown's melodramatic stereotype of the mulatto as "tragic figure," Cassandra Jackson's close...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253217334
• ISBN13: 9780253217332
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.3"