Gothic passages [[electronic resource] ] : racial ambiguity and the American gothic / / Justin D. Edwards

• Autore: Edwards Justin D. <1970->
• Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (181 p.)
• Disciplina: 813.0872909355; 813/.0872909355
• Soggetto topico: Horror tales, American - History and criticism; American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; Gothic revival (Literature) - United States; Racially mixed people in literature; Passing (Identity) in literature; Ambiguity in literature; Race in literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [123]-139) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Creating A Self in the Antebellum Gothic Narrative; 1. Hybrid Bodies and Gothic Narratives in Poe's Pym; 2. Gothic Travels in Melville's Benito Cereno; 3. Passing and Abjection in William and Ellen Craft's Runninga Thousand Miles for Freedom; PART TWO Exploring Identity in Postbellum Gothic Discourse; 4. The Epistemology of the Body; or, Gothic Secrets inFrances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy; 5. Genetic Atavism and the Return of the Repressed inWilliam Dean Howells's An Imperative Duty ; 6. The Haunted House behind the Cedars: CharlesW. Chesnuttand the "White Negro"Epilogue: Twentieth-Century Gothicism andRacial Ambiguity; Notes; Works Cited; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This groundbreaking study analyzes the development of American gothic literature alongside nineteenth-century discourses of passing and racial ambiguity.By bringing together these areas of analysis, Justin Edwards considers the following questions. How are the categories of "race" and the rhetoric of racial difference tied to the language of gothicism? What can these discursive ties tell us about a range of social boundaries-gender, sexuality, class, race, etc.-during the nineteenth century? What can the construction and destabilization of these social boundaries tell us
• Titolo autorizzato: Gothic passages
• ISBN: 1-58729-420-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450783303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II