The blue stain : a novel of a racial outcast

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The blue stain : a novel of a racial outcast

Title remainder

a novel of a racial outcast

Statement of responsibility

Hugo Bettauer ; edited and with an introduction by Peter Höyng ; translated by Peter Höyng and Chauncey J. Mellor ; afterword by Kenneth R. Janken

Creator

• Bettauer, Hugo, 1872-1925

Contributor

• Mellor, Chauncey J., 1942-
• Janken, Kenneth Robert, 1956-
• Höyng, Peter

Author

• Bettauer, Hugo, 1872-1925

Editor

• Höyng, Peter

Translator

• Mellor, Chauncey J., 1942-
• Höyng, Peter

Subject

• Racially mixed people
• Civil rights movements -- United States -- Fiction
• Civil rights movements
• Race relations -- Fiction
• United States
• Racially mixed people -- Fiction
• Fiction
• Race relations

Genre

• Fiction

Language

• eng
• ger
• eng

Summary

"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."--

Member of

• Blaue Mal
• Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

833/.912

Index

no index present

LC call number

PT2603.E857

LC item number

B413 2017

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

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