Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses
Betsy Erkkila
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Description for Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses
Hardback. In this series of essays Betsy Erkkila considers the historical and psychological dramas of blood-as marker of violence, race, sex, kinship-that have stood near the center of American literature, culture, and politics since the eighteenth century. Num Pages: 288 pages, 24 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 608.
In Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses, Betsy Erkkila argues that it is through the historical and psychological dramas of blood as a marker of violence, or race, or sex, or kinship that Americans have struggled over the meanings of democracy, citizenship, culture, national belonging, and the idea of America itself as it was constituted and contested in its relations with others and the world. Whether blood is construed as setting up a boundary incapable of being crossed or is perceived as a site of mixing and hybridity, its imagery has saturated the literature of the American republic from the time ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812238440
SKU
V9780812238440
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About Betsy Erkkila
Betsy Erkkila is Henry Sanborn Noyes Professor of Literature at Northwestern University and the author of Walt Whitman Among the French, Whitman the Political Poet, and The Wicked Sisters: Women Poets, Literary History, and Discord.
Reviews for Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses
"This is an important and useful book to us now, stimulating and compelling reading: theoretically complex and challenging and yet clearly and fluently written. What Erkkila accomplishes is to place in conversation writers and social thinkers across socially constructed boundaries, and to contest those boundaries and the limiting categories they create."
Sharon O'Brien, Dickinson College
"Erkkila challenges boundaries ... Read more
Sharon O'Brien, Dickinson College
"Erkkila challenges boundaries ... Read more