BETWEEN LAW AND CUSTOM: A VIEW OF THE RACIAL RELATIONSHIPS IN CHARLES WADDELL CHESNUTT’S “THE HOUSE BEHIND THE CEDARS”

MILICĂ (BLĂNUȚĂ), Iulia Andreea

BETWEEN LAW AND CUSTOM: A VIEW OF THE RACIAL RELATIONSHIPS IN CHARLES WADDELL CHESNUTT’S “THE HOUSE BEHIND THE CEDARS”

dc.coverage	STUDIA UBB PHILOLOGIA, Volume 64 (LXIV), No. 1, March 2019, pp. 97-112 DOI: 10.24193/subbphilo.2019.1.08	en-US
dc.creator	MILICĂ (BLĂNUȚĂ), Iulia Andreea
dc.date	2019-03-29
dc.date.accessioned	2026-02-21T08:39:21Z
dc.description	Between Law and Custom: A View of the Racial Relationships in Charles Waddell’s Chesnutt’s “The House behind the Cedars”. The aim of this paper is to investigate the manner in which Charles Waddell Chesnutt skillfully uses the conventions of the sentimental novel and of the tragic mulatto/a character, familiar to his white readers, in order to dismantle racial preconceptions and expose the terrible ramifications of racism. The novel The House behind the Cedars shows that race is artificially constructed out of various external markers such as custom, law, dubious scientific findings, which, however, can have dire consequences for the individuals who need to obey such limitations. REZUMAT. Între lege și tradiție: o privire asupra relațiilor rasiale din romanul „The House behind the Cedars” de Charles Waddell Chesnutt. Scopul acestei lucrări este acela de a investiga maniera în care Charles Waddell Chesnutt se folosește de convențiile romanului sentimental și ale pesonajului tipic ”mulatrul/mulatra tragic/ă”, familiare cititorilor din epoca sa, pentru a submina prejudecățile rasiale și pentru a expune teribilele ramificații ale rasismului în America. Romanul The House behind the Cedars arată faptul că rasa este o construcție artificială tributară unor elemente constitutive externe cum ar fi: tradiția, legea, descoperiri științifice dubioase, dar care are consecințe tragice pentru persoanele care sunt forțate să se supună limitărilor sociale impuse de legile rasiale. Cuvinte cheie: rasă mixtă, rasism, prejudecată, mulatrul/mulatra tragic/ă, literatură afro-americană, lege, a trece drept alb.	en-US
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.identifier	https://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilologia/article/view/2179
dc.identifier	10.24193/subbphilo.2019.1.08
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14637/431
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Babeș-Bolyai University / Cluj University Press	en-US
dc.relation	https://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilologia/article/view/2179/2106
dc.rights	Copyright (c) 2019 Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia	en-US
dc.rights	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0	en-US
dc.source	Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia; Volume 64, No. 1, 2019; 97-112	en-US
dc.source	2065-9652
dc.source	1220-0484
dc.source	10.24193/subbphilo.2019.1
dc.subject	mixed-race, racism, prejudice, tragic mulatto/a, African-American literature, law, passing.	en-US
dc.title	BETWEEN LAW AND CUSTOM: A VIEW OF THE RACIAL RELATIONSHIPS IN CHARLES WADDELL CHESNUTT’S “THE HOUSE BEHIND THE CEDARS”	en-US
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.type	text	en-US

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