Family Money
Property, Race, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century
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2012
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-989770-4 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-989770-4 (ISBN)
Combining nuanced literary interpretations with significant legal cases, Family Money reveals a shared preoccupation with the financial quandaries emerging from interracial sexuality in nineteenth-century America. At stake, Clymer shows, were the very notions of family and the long-term distribution of wealth in the United States.
Family Money explores the histories of formerly enslaved women who tried to claim inheritances left to them by deceased owners, the household traumas of mixed-race slaves, post-Emancipation calls for reparations, and the economic fallout from anti-miscegenation marriage laws. Authors ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank Webb, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Chesnutt, to Lydia Maria Child recognized that intimate interracial relationships took myriad forms, often simultaneously-sexual, marital, coercive, familial, pleasurable, and painful. Their fiction confirms that the consequences of these relationships for nineteenth-century Americans meant thinking about more than the legal structure of racial identity. Who could count as family (and when), who could own property (and when), and how racial difference was imagined (and why) were emphatically bound together. Demonstrating that notions of race were entwined with economics well beyond the direct issue of slavery, Family Money reveals interracial sexuality to be a volatile mixture of emotion, economics, and law that had dramatic, long-term financial consequences.
Family Money explores the histories of formerly enslaved women who tried to claim inheritances left to them by deceased owners, the household traumas of mixed-race slaves, post-Emancipation calls for reparations, and the economic fallout from anti-miscegenation marriage laws. Authors ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank Webb, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Chesnutt, to Lydia Maria Child recognized that intimate interracial relationships took myriad forms, often simultaneously-sexual, marital, coercive, familial, pleasurable, and painful. Their fiction confirms that the consequences of these relationships for nineteenth-century Americans meant thinking about more than the legal structure of racial identity. Who could count as family (and when), who could own property (and when), and how racial difference was imagined (and why) were emphatically bound together. Demonstrating that notions of race were entwined with economics well beyond the direct issue of slavery, Family Money reveals interracial sexuality to be a volatile mixture of emotion, economics, and law that had dramatic, long-term financial consequences.
Jeffory Clymer is Associate Professor of English at the University of Kentucky and the author of America's Culture of Terrorism: Violence, Capitalism and the Written Word (University of North Carolina Press, 2003).
Table of Contents ; Introduction ; Family Money ; Chapter 1 ; <"This Most Illegal Family>": Sex, Slavery, and the Politics of Inheritance ; Chapter 2 ; Blood, Truth, and Consequences: Partus Sequitur Ventrem and the Problem of Legal Title ; Chapter 3 ; Plantation Heiress Fiction, Slavery, and the Properties of White Marriage ; Chapter 4 ; Reparations for Slavery and Lydia Maria Child's Reconstruction of the Family ; Chapter 5 ; The Properties of Marriage in Chesnutt and Hopkins ; Coda ; <"Race Feeling>"
| Reihe/Serie | Oxford Studies in American Literary History ; 1 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 239 x 160 mm |
| Gewicht | 478 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-989770-0 / 0199897700 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-989770-4 / 9780199897704 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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