Gothic passages: racial ambiguity and the American gothic
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1. Verfasser: Edwards, Justin D. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Iowa City University of Iowa Press ©2003
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-139) and index
Hybrid bodies and gothic narratives in Poe's Pym -- Gothic travels in Melville's Benito Cereno -- Passing and abjection in William and Ellen Craft's Running a thousand miles for freedom -- The epistemology of the body; or, gothic secrets in Frances E.W. Harper's Iola Leroy -- Genetic atavism and the return of the repressed in William Dean Howell's An imperative duty -- The haunted house behind the cedars: Charles W. Chesnutt and the "white negro" -- Epilogue: twentieth-century gothicism and racial ambiguity
This groundbreaking study analyzes the development of American gothic literature alongside nineteenth-century discourses of passing and racial ambiguity. By bringing together these areas of analysis, Justin Edwards considers the following questions. How are the categories of & ldquo;race & rdquo; and the rhetoric of racial difference tied to the language of gothicism? What can these discursive ties tell us about a range of social boundaries & mdash;gender, sexuality, class, race, etc. & mdash;during the nineteenth century? What can the construction and destabilization of these social boundarie
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