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Race and Romance: Coloring the Past

By Margo Hendricks
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By Margo Hendricks
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This study brings race and the literary tradition of romance into dialogue.Race and Romance: Coloring the Past explores the literary and cultural genealogy of colorism, white passing, and white presenting in the romance genre. The scope of the study ranges from Heliodorus’ Aithiopika to the short novels of Aphra Behn, to the modern romance novel Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins. This analysis engages with the troublesome racecraft of “passing” and the instability of racial identity and its form...

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Social SciencesLiteratureAfrican AmericansAfrican American Arts & EntertainmentLiterary CriticismAmerican LiteratureAfrican American Literature - Literary Criticism