Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction

Imperfect Unions examines the vital role that nineteenth- and twentieth-century dramatic and literary enactments played in the constitution and consolidation of race in the U. Diana Rebekkah Paulin investigates how these representations produced, and were produced by, the black—white binary that informed them in a wide variety of texts written across the period between the Civil War and World War I.

Imperfect Unions is a brilliant and illuminating study that promises to break new ground in theater and performance studies, in comparative ethnic literary and cultural studies, and in trans-hemispheric studies. Daphne Brooks, author of Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, Imperfect Unions examines the vital role that nineteenth- and twentieth-century dramatic and literary enactments played in the constitution and consolidation of race in the United States. Diana Rebekkah Paulin investigates how these representations produced, and were produced by, the black—white binary that informed them in a wide variety of texts written across the period between the Civil War and World War I—by Louisa May Alcott, Thomas Dixon, J.

She demonstrates the challenges of crossing intellectual boundaries, echoing the crossings—of race, gender, nation, class, and hemisphere—that complicated the black—white divide at the turn of the twentieth century and continue to do so today. Rather than remaining hidden, this great American fear [of black-white unions] was actually paraded Most users should sign in with their email address.

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