| Description |
1 online resource (268 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Race and American culture
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Race and American culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-261) and index. |
| Contents |
Of race and woman : eugenics, motherhood, and racial patriarchy -- Romanticism and the race aesthetic : Scott and Wordsworth -- Reimagining materiality after romanticism : science, phenomenology, and narrative -- Swan song for the race mother : late-romantic narrative in Cane -- The parodic purge, the maternal return : late-romantic narrative in Ulysses -- Voyaging beyond the race mother : Melymbrosia and To the lighthouse -- Burning down the house : interruptive narrative in Invisible man -- "To get to a place" : intercorporeality in Beloved. |
| Summary |
The figure of the mother in literature and the arts has been the subject of much recent critical attention. Whereas many studies have focused on women writers and the maternal, Laura Doyle significantly broadens the field by tracing the racial logic internal to Western representations of maternality at least since Romanticism. She formulates a theory of "racial patriarchy" in which the circumscription of reproduction within racial borders engenders what she calls the "race mother" in literary and cultural narratives. Pairing literary movements not often considered together- |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
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American fiction -- African American authors. |
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
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African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life. |
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Modernism (Literature) -- English-speaking countries.
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Modernism (Literature) |
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English-speaking countries. |
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans in literature. |
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Human body in literature.
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Human body in literature. |
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Mothers in literature.
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Mothers in literature. |
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Race in literature.
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Race in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
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English fiction By Black persons |
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United States |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Doyle, Laura (Laura Anne). Bordering on the body. New York : Oxford University Press, 1994 (DLC) 94005456 |
| ISBN |
9780195358759 (electronic book) |
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0195358759 (electronic book) |
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9780195086546 (acid-free paper) |
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0195086546 (acid-free paper) |
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0195086554 (Paper) |
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0195086546 |
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9780195086553 |
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