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

• Autore: Doyle Laura
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1994
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (285 p.)
• Disciplina: 813.509896073; 813.52093520431; 813/.509896073
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Bordering on the body
• ISBN: 0-19-772330-6; 1-280-55590-4; 0-19-535875-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825266603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Race and American culture.