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Black Frankenstein

Autor Elizabeth Young
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 aug 2008
For all the scholarship devoted to Mary Shelley’s English novel Frankenstein, there has been surprisingly little attention paid to its role in American culture, and virtually none to its racial resonances in the United States. In Black Frankenstein, Elizabeth Young identifies and interprets the figure of a black American Frankenstein monster as it appears with surprising frequency throughout nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. culture, in fiction, film, essays, oratory, painting, and other media, and in works by both whites and African Americans.Black Frankenstein stories, Young argues, effect four kinds of racial critique: they humanize the slave; they explain, if not justify, black violence; they condemn the slave-owner; and they expose the instability of white power. The black Frankenstein’s monster has served as a powerful metaphor for reinforcing racial hierarchy - and as an even more powerful metaphor for shaping anti-racist critique. Illuminating the power of parody and re-appropriation, Black Frankenstein tells the story of a metaphor that continues to matter to literature, culture, aesthetics, and politics.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780814797150
ISBN-10: 0814797156
Pagini: 322
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: NYU Press - IPS

Recenzii

"A subtle, complex, and deeply read romp through the last two centuries of transatlantic literary and cultural history. Truly eye-opening and provocative.” Eric Lott, University of Virginia"In Black Frankenstein, Young tears apart and rearranges the monster we think we know into something entirely fresh and challenging. This excellent and provocative book offers a compelling lesson in the political and cultural uses of a metaphor organized by design, as well as unconsciously, into a racial paradigm.” Eric J. Sundquist, author of Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America

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Tells the story of a metaphor that continues to matter to literature, culture, aesthetics, and politics