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Bordering on the body [[electronic resource] ] : the racial matrix of modern fiction and culture / / Laura Doyle



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Autore: Doyle Laura Visualizza persona
Titolo: Bordering on the body [[electronic resource] ] : the racial matrix of modern fiction and culture / / Laura Doyle Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1994
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: Description based upon print version of record.
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
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Sommario/riassunto: The 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
Titolo autorizzato: Bordering on the body  Visualizza cluster
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.: 9910784602503321
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Serie: Race and American culture.