Transnational Relationships, US Feminism, and the Labor of Dark Foreign Men in the “New World” of Europe in Louisa May Alcott’s Diana and Persis
This paper examines romantic relationships between U.S. and non-U.S. citizens in Diana and Persis, Louisa May Alcott’s 1879 sentimental novella set in Europe and based on May Alcott’s life. The essay argues that Alcott uses sentimental, transnational relationships and the adulation of France and Ita...
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| description | This paper examines romantic relationships between U.S. and non-U.S. citizens in Diana and Persis, Louisa May Alcott’s 1879 sentimental novella set in Europe and based on May Alcott’s life. The essay argues that Alcott uses sentimental, transnational relationships and the adulation of France and Italy to question gender and racial inequities in the U.S., as well as to encourage U.S. American women to escape the dominant patriarchal ideology through emigration to Europe. Although these transnational relationships propagate a feminist agenda that challenges gender and racial hierarchies in powerful ways, the novella also complexly participates in the subordination of dark foreign Others and the US imperial project. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-32eb6f634d2c4dc6b85cd7b53a8cee2a2025-01-30T10:45:29ZengAssociation Française d'Etudes AméricainesTransatlantica1765-27662019-09-01110.4000/transatlantica.12417Transnational Relationships, US Feminism, and the Labor of Dark Foreign Men in the “New World” of Europe in Louisa May Alcott’s Diana and PersisLeslie HammerThis paper examines romantic relationships between U.S. and non-U.S. citizens in Diana and Persis, Louisa May Alcott’s 1879 sentimental novella set in Europe and based on May Alcott’s life. The essay argues that Alcott uses sentimental, transnational relationships and the adulation of France and Italy to question gender and racial inequities in the U.S., as well as to encourage U.S. American women to escape the dominant patriarchal ideology through emigration to Europe. Although these transnational relationships propagate a feminist agenda that challenges gender and racial hierarchies in powerful ways, the novella also complexly participates in the subordination of dark foreign Others and the US imperial project.https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/12417racegenderfeminismtransnationalismLouisa May Alcottsentimentalism |
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| title | Transnational Relationships, US Feminism, and the Labor of Dark Foreign Men in the “New World” of Europe in Louisa May Alcott’s Diana and Persis |
| title_full | Transnational Relationships, US Feminism, and the Labor of Dark Foreign Men in the “New World” of Europe in Louisa May Alcott’s Diana and Persis |
| title_fullStr | Transnational Relationships, US Feminism, and the Labor of Dark Foreign Men in the “New World” of Europe in Louisa May Alcott’s Diana and Persis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Transnational Relationships, US Feminism, and the Labor of Dark Foreign Men in the “New World” of Europe in Louisa May Alcott’s Diana and Persis |
| title_short | Transnational Relationships, US Feminism, and the Labor of Dark Foreign Men in the “New World” of Europe in Louisa May Alcott’s Diana and Persis |
| title_sort | transnational relationships us feminism and the labor of dark foreign men in the new world of europe in louisa may alcott s diana and persis |
| topic | race gender feminism transnationalism Louisa May Alcott sentimentalism |
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