Cargando…
Bordering on the body : the racial matrix of modern fiction and culture /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
New York :
Oxford University Press,
1994.
|
| Colección: | Race and American culture.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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- |
|---|---|
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (268 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-261) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780195358759 0195358759 9780195086546 0195086546 |