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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825266603321

Autore

Doyle Laura

Titolo

Bordering on the body : the racial matrix of modern fiction and culture / / Laura Doyle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1994

ISBN

0-19-772330-6

1-280-55590-4

0-19-535875-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 p.)

Collana

Race and American culture

Disciplina

813.509896073

813.52093520431

813/.509896073

Soggetti

American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

African Americans in literature

Human body in literature

Modernism (Literature)

Mothers in literature

Race in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1994.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-261) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1. Of Race and Woman: Eugenics, Motherhood, and Racial Patriarchy; 2. Romanticism and the Race Aesthetic: Scott and Wordsworth; 3. Reimagining Materiality after Romanticism: Science, Phenomenology, and Narrative; 4. Swan Song for the Race Mother: Late-Romantic Narrative in Cane; 5. The Parodic Purge, the Maternal Return: Late-Romantic Narrative in Ulysses; 6. Voyaging Beyond the Race Mother: Melymbrosia and To the Lighthouse; 7. Burning Down the House: Interruptive Narrative in Invisible Man; 8. ""To Get to a Place"": Intercorporeality in Beloved; Conclusion; Notes

Index



Sommario/riassunto

Argues that many major texts of 20th-century literature revolve around the concept of the mother figure. Examining novels of the Harlem Renaissance and Modernism and drawing upon the history of eugenics and anthropology, this study shows how mother figures represent symbols of race and ethnicity.