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The blue stain : a novel of a racial outcast / Hugo Bettauer ; edited and with an introduction by Peter H�oyng ; translated by Peter H�oyng and Chauncey J. Mellor ; afterword by Kenneth R. Janken.
"Hugo Bettauer's The Blue Stain, a novel of racial mixing and "passing," starts and ends in Georgia but also takes the reader to Vienna and New York. First published in 1922, the novel tells the story of Carletto, son of a white European academic and an African-American daughter of former slaves, who, having passed as white in Europe and fled to America after losing his fortune, resists being seen as "black" before ultimately accepting that identity and joining the early movement for civil rights. Never before translated into English, this is the first novel in which a German-speaking European author addresses early twentieth-century racial politics in the United States--not only in the South but also in the North. There is an irony, however: while Bettauer's narrative aims to sanction a white/European egalitarianism with respect to race, it nevertheless exhibits its own brand of racism by asserting that African Americans need extensive enculturation before they are to be valued as human beings. The novel therefore serves as a unique historical account of transnational and transcultural racial attitudes of the period that continue to reverberate in our present globalized world."-- Provided by publisher
Record details
- ISBN: 1782049975
- ISBN: 1787440877
- ISBN: 9781782049975
- ISBN: 9781787440876
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxxiii, 146 pages)
- Publisher: Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2017.
- Copyright: �2017
Content descriptions
| General Note: | CatMonthString:september.21 Multi-User. Translated from the German. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxii-xxxiii). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Translator's note -- Introduction / by Peter H�oyng -- Georgia -- Carletto -- The colored gentleman -- Afterword / by Kenneth R. Janken. |
| Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
| System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription. |
| Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by JSTOR. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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