Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature

1. Tainted Blood: The “Tragic Mulatto” Tradition
Diana Adesola Mafe

2. God’s Stepchildren: The “Tragedy of Being a Halfbreed” in South African Literature
Diana Adesola Mafe

3. “An Unlovely Woman”: Bessie Head’s Mulatta (Re)Vision
Diana Adesola Mafe

4. “A Little Yellow Bastard Boy”: Arthur Nortje’s Mulatto Manhood
Diana Adesola Mafe

5. Tragic to Magic?: Achmat Dangor’s Bitter Fruit
Diana Adesola Mafe

6. Playing in the Light
Diana Adesola Mafe

Keywords: Literature, African Literature, African Languages, Postcolonial/World Literature, North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction