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The Blue Stain: A Novel of a Racial Outcast (178) (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture)
Hugo Bettauer
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Description for The Blue Stain: A Novel of a Racial Outcast (178) (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture)
Hardcover. A European novel of racial mixing and "passing" in early twentieth-century America that serves as a unique account of transnational and transcultural racial attitudes that continue to reverberate today. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 182 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Camden House
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture
Condition
New
Weight
665g
Number of Pages
182
Place of Publication
Columbia, MD, United States
ISBN
9781571139825
SKU
V9781571139825
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About Hugo Bettauer
Hugo Bettauer (1872-1925) was a prolific Austrian writer and journalist, a very early victim of the Nazis.
Reviews for The Blue Stain: A Novel of a Racial Outcast (178) (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture)
[A]n important historical document that tried to show its German-speaking readers the little-known injustices of the highly segregated American society under Jim Crow. [It] is also important in its attempt to depict European society as morally superior, which corresponds with the portrayal of Europe in novels of the Harlem Renaissance era. . . . Thanks to Peter Hoeyng's and Chauncey ... Read more