| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Book Review

Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery. By Carolyn Vellenga Berman. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006. xiv, 240 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8014-4384-9.)

In recent years literary historians have seen a surge of interest in representations of mixed-race characters in nineteenth-century reform fiction and their relationship to issues of national identity (for example, in Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture, by Jennifer DeVere Brody [1998], and Barriers Between Us: Interracial Sex in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, by Cassandra Jackson [2004]). However, Carolyn Vellenga Berman's trenchant and meticulous study is the first to turn its attention exclusively to what the author provocatively terms "the Creole nation"—referring not just to the usual Anglo-American understanding of Creoles as inhabitants of Louisiana with French and Spanish heritage, but to the wider, more transatlantic sense of persons born and raised in European slave colonies (p. 168).

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