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Impossible purities : blackness, femininity, and Victorian culture /

Using black feminist theory and African American studies to read Victorian culture, Impossible Purities looks at the construction of "Englishness" as white, masculine, and pure and "Americanness" as black, feminine, and impure. Brody's readings of Victorian novels, plays, pa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brody, Jennifer DeVere (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 1998.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Complicating categories.
  • Miscegenating mulattaroons.
  • Casting the dye.
  • Masking faces.
  • Deforming island races.
  • Epilogue.