LEADER 03722nam 2200781Ia 450 001 9910458248503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-55590-4 010 $a0-19-535875-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000399291 035 $a(EBL)430798 035 $a(OCoLC)252609866 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000113935 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11140600 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000113935 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10101427 035 $a(PQKB)11081807 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC430798 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL430798 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10279059 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL55590 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000399291 100 $a19940127d1994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBordering on the body$b[electronic resource] $ethe racial matrix of modern fiction and culture /$fLaura Doyle 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1994 215 $a1 online resource (285 p.) 225 1 $aRace and American culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-508654-6 311 $a0-19-508655-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 235-261) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $aIndex 330 $aThe figure of the mother in literature and the arts has been the subject of much recent critical attention. Whereas many studies have focused on women writers and the maternal, Laura Doyle significantly broadens the field by tracing the racial logic internal to Western representations of maternality at least since Romanticism. She formulates a theory of ""racial patriarchy"" in which the circumscription of reproduction within racial borders engenders what she calls the ""race mother"" in literary and cultural narratives. Pairing literary movements not often considered together--Modernism and t 410 0$aRace and American culture. 606 $aAmerican fiction$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican Americans in literature 606 $aHuman body in literature 606 $aModernism (Literature) 606 $aMothers in literature 606 $aRace in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in literature. 615 0$aHuman body in literature. 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 0$aMothers in literature. 615 0$aRace in literature. 676 $a813.509896073 676 $a813.52093520431 676 $a813/.509896073 700 $aDoyle$b Laura$0703414 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458248503321 996 $aBordering on the body$91969518 997 $aUNINA