Family Money

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-0-19-989770-4
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 493 g

Reihe: Oxford Studies in American Literary History

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.

Zielgruppe

Scholars with a focus on nineteenth-century American literature and the law; miscegenation; African American Literature, American Studies, and Gender Studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clymer

Clymer, Jeffory

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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>"

Über Autor(innen)

Clymer, Jeffory
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).