Through readings of a variety of literary and historical narratives from throughout the Americas dating from the 16th century to the present, I show that miscegenation, its sudden and disrupting revelation in these narratives serving as the catalyst for utopian and/or apocalyptic rhetoric, becomes a trope for New World cultural identity (Utopia and Apocalypse themselves being crucial ideas for this hemisphere). I call by the name "Astonishment" the resulting space created by the sudden revelation of miscegenation in these narratives.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:RICE/oai:scholarship.rice.edu:1911/16710 |
| Date | January 1994 |
| Creators | Buaas, John Wesley |
| Contributors | Morris, Wesley A. |
| Source Sets | Rice University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, Text |
| Format | 235 p., application/pdf |
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