Family Money: Property, Race, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century - Couverture rigide

Clymer, Jeffory A.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0199897700 ISBN 13 : 9780199897704

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2012

Synopsis

Book by Clymer Jeffory

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Family Money explores the histories of formerly enslaved women who tried to claim inheritances left to them by deceased owners, the household traumas of mixed-race slaves, post-Emancipation calls for reparations, and the economic fallout from anti-miscegenation marriage laws. Authors ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank Webb, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Chesnutt, to Lydia Maria Child recognized that intimate interracial relationships took myriad forms, often simultaneously-sexual, marital, coercive, familial, pleasurable, and painful. Their fiction confirms that the consequences of these relationships for nineteenth-century Americans meant thinking about more than the legal structure of racial identity. Who could count as family (and when), who could own property (and when), and how racial difference was imagined (and why) were emphatically bound together. Demonstrating that notions of race were entwined with economics well beyond the direct issue of slavery, Family Money reveals interracial sexuality to be a volatile mixture of emotion, economics, and law that had dramatic, long-term financial consequences.

Revue de presse :

Clymer's book raises the bar for the study of racial difference in nineteenth-century American literature. (Micheal Jonik, Journal of American Studies)

this book is both vast and analytically detailed in scope. (Suzanne Lenone, Feminist Legal Studies)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0199897700
• ISBN 13: 9780199897704
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224