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Romancing the shadow : Poe and race /
Edgar Allen Poe's strength as a writer lay in fabricating fantisies in settings far removed from his own place and time. This dislocation renders the attitudes embedded in his fiction open to interpretation, and over the years some readers have found Poe to be virulently racist, while others fo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
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| Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Edgar Allen Poe's strength as a writer lay in fabricating fantisies in settings far removed from his own place and time. This dislocation renders the attitudes embedded in his fiction open to interpretation, and over the years some readers have found Poe to be virulently racist, while others found him morally conflicted, and still others detected a subversion of racism in his works' subtle sympathies for non-white characters. As a nineteenth-century Southerner, Poe was a deeply ambiguous figure, evading race issues while living among them, and traversing the North-South border with little sensitivity to its political implications. In this tightly organized volume, a handful of leading Americanists revisit the Poe issue, re-examining what it means to speak of an author and his work as racist, and where the critic's responsibility lies. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 292 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-275) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423740467 9781423740469 9780195137101 0195137108 9780195137118 0195137116 1280473673 9781280473678 9786610473670 6610473676 0195350340 9780195350340 1433700174 9781433700170 |