03661nam 2200877uu 450 991097200500332120251116202258.00-19-772330-61-280-55590-40-19-535875-910.1093/oso/9780195086546.001.0001(CKB)1000000000399291(EBL)430798(OCoLC)252609866(SSID)ssj0000113935(PQKBManifestationID)11140600(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000113935(PQKBWorkID)10101427(PQKB)11081807(Au-PeEL)EBL430798(CaPaEBR)ebr10279059(CaONFJC)MIL55590(MiAaPQ)EBC430798(OCoLC)1406782649(StDuBDS)9780197723302(EXLCZ)99100000000039929119950328e20231994 |y |engur|n|---|||||txtccrBordering on the body the racial matrix of modern fiction and culture /Laura Doyle1st ed.New York ;Oxford University Press,2023.1 online resource (285 p.)Race and American cultureOxford scholarship onlineIncludes index.Previously issued in print: 1994.0-19-508654-6 0-19-508655-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-261) and index.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; NotesIndexArgues 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.Race and American culture.Oxford scholarship online.American fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismAfrican Americans in literatureHuman body in literatureModernism (Literature)Mothers in literatureRace in literatureAmerican fictionAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.English fictionHistory and criticism.African Americans in literature.Human body in literature.Modernism (Literature)Mothers in literature.Race in literature.813.509896073813.52093520431813/.509896073Doyle Laura703414UkUkStDuBDSZStDuBDSZBOOK9910972005003321Bordering on the body4525274UNINA