Stories of Miscegenation: Fact and Fiction of Interracial Life and Art
Austin-Wright, Cynthia D.
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Description
Title
Stories of Miscegenation: Fact and Fiction of Interracial Life and Art
Author(s)
Austin-Wright, Cynthia D.
Issue Date
1998
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Hendrick, George
Department of Study
English
Discipline
English
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
Language
eng
Abstract
The contemporary reader, the one whose gaze is unconsciously informed by the same pseudo-science that is in dialogue with American literature, wonders what is real and looks to the biographical for comparison to the imaginary of literature. What she finds is a landscape of images and counterimages that suggest that the real of miscegenation and hybridity is almost inextricably bound to the imaginary complex that is formed by pseudo-science and literature. She comes to the conclusion that, in order to counteract the effects of centuries of pseudo-scientific conditioning, writers must continue to rail against the fixity of race representations while both acknowledging the origin of that fixity in science and creating a new science and literature complex that privileges and naturalizes narratives of open racial identification and cross-racial interaction.
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