“I Am The New America”: Representing and Negotiating American Families in Mixed Race Memoirs

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  • Julia Sattler TU Dortmund University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13135/2281-6658/2613

Parole chiave:

Family, Slavery, History

Abstract

This article provides an analysis of two mixed race memoirs from the 1990s/ 2000s. It looks at the establishment of mixed race families and mixed race history by these texts and contextualizes them in the larger process of the American nation coming to terms with its past.

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Pubblicato

2018-06-25

Fascicolo

N. 12 (2018): Family Matters 2.0: Literary and Cultural Representations of the (American) Family in Transition

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