The Half-Blood: A Cultural Symbol in 19th Century American Fiction

By William J. Scheick

The half-blood - half Indian, half white - is a frequent figure in the popular fiction of nineteenth-century America, for he (or sometimes she) served to symbolize many of the conflicting cultural values with which American society was then wrestling. In literature, as in real life the half-blood was a product of the frontier, embodying the conflict between wilderness and civilization that haunted and stirred the American imagination. What was his identity? Was he indeed ""half Indian, half wh

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813113903
• ISBN13: 9780813113906
• Release Date: December 1979
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher