Title The blue stain : a novel of a racial outcast / Hugo Bettauer ; edited and with an introduction by Peter Höyng ; translated by Peter Höyng and Chauncey J. Mellor ; afterword by Kenneth R. Janken

Published Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2017 ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiii, 146 pages) Series Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture Contents Translator's note -- Introduction / by Peter Höyng -- Georgia -- Carletto -- The colored gentleman -- Afterword / by Kenneth R. Janken 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."-- Provided by publisher Notes Translated from the German Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxii-xxxiii) Notes Print version record Subject Racially mixed people -- Fiction Civil rights movements -- United States -- Fiction Race relations -- Fiction FICTION -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German. Civil rights movements Race relations Racially mixed people United States Genre/Form Fiction Form Electronic book Author Höyng, Peter, editor, translator Mellor, Chauncey J., 1942- translator Janken, Kenneth Robert, 1956- writer of supplementary content ISBN 9781787440876 1787440877 9781782049975 1782049975

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