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Author, AnalyticMartin, Judith E.
Title, AnalyticAus vergangenen Tagen: Eine Erzaehlung aus der Sklavenzeit (1906): Clara Berens's German American 'Race Melodrama' in Its American Literary Contexts
Title, MonographicSophie Discovers Amerika: German-Speaking Women Write the New World
Place of PublicationRochester, New York :
PublisherCamden House
Date of Publication2014
Location in Work125-137
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AbstractIn 1906 Clara Berens published a young adult novel that explores race, ethnicity, and gender in nineteenth-century America. Berens's German-American protagonist, Erna, encounters a "panorama of American racial attitudes while struggling over her love for the light-skinned ex-slave Morrison."
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MKI TermsSlavery/ United States -- History -- 19th century/ Fiction, historical/ Fiction, German-American