The Blue Stain: A Novel of a Racial Outcast - Couverture rigide

Bettauer, Hugo

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1571139826 ISBN 13 : 9781571139825

Editeur : Camden House Inc, 2017

Synopsis

Hugo Bettauer's The Blue Stain, a novel of racial mixing and "passing," starts and ends in Georgia but also takes the reader to Vienna and New York. First published in 1922, the novel tells the story of Carletto, son of a white European academic and an African American daughter of former slaves, who, having passed as white in Europe and fled to America after losing his fortune, resists being seen as "black" before ultimately accepting that identity and joining the early movement for civil rights. Never before translated into English, this is the first novel in which a German-speaking European author addresses early twentieth-century racial politics in the United States - not only in the South but also in the North. There is an irony, however: while Bettauer's narrative aims to sanction a white/European egalitarianism with respect to race, it nevertheless exhibits its own brand of racism by asserting that African Americans need extensive enculturation before they are to be valued as human beings. The novel therefore serves as a unique historical account of transnational and transcultural racial attitudes of the period that continue to reverberate in our present globalized world.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Hugo Bettauer (1872-1925) was a prolific Austrian writer and journalist, a very early victim of the Nazis.

PETER HÖYNG is Professor of German at Emory University.

CHAUNCEY J. MELLOR is Professor Emeritus of German at the University of Tennesee.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Camden House Inc
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1571139826
• ISBN 13: 9781571139825
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 182
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible