Mixing Race Mixing Culture

<p>Over the last five centuries the story of the Americas has been a story of the mixing of races and cultures. Not surprisingly the issue of miscegenation with its attendant fears and hopes has been a pervasive theme in New World literature as writers from Canada to Argentina confront the legacy of cultural hybridization and fusion.</p> <p>This book takes up the challenge of transforming American literary and cultural studies into a comparative discipline by examining the dynamics of racial and cultural mixture and its opposite tendency racial and cultural disjunction in the literatures of the Americas. Editors Kaup and Rosenthal have brought together a distinguished set of scholars who compare the treatment of racial and cultural mixtures in literature from North America the Caribbean and Latin America. From various angles they remap the Americas as a multicultural and multiracial hemisphere with a common history of colonialism slavery racism and racial and cultural hybridity.</p>