Black Frankenstein

Name: Black Frankenstein
Brand: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9780814797167
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The Making of an American Metaphor

Autor: Elizabeth Young

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Editura: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

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For all the scholarship devoted to Mary Shelley's English novel Frankenstein, there has been surpris...

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Autor

Elizabeth Young

Limbă

engleză

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Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2008

Pagini

336

EAN

9780814797167

ISBN

0814797164

Enbook ID

04932885

Editura

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Greutate

488

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 18

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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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