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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Average racism: Poe, slavery, and the wages of literary nationalism / Terence Whalen
- The poetics of whiteness: Poe and the racial imaginary / Betsy Erkkila
- Edgar Allan Poe's imperial fantasy and the American frontier / John Carlos Rowe
- Poe, persons, and property / Joan Dayan
- Black, white, and gold / Liliane Weissberg
- Presence of mind: detection and racialization in "The murders in the Rue Morgue" / Lindon Barrett
- "The murders in the Rue Morgue": amalgamation discourses and the race riots of 1838 in Poe's Philadelphia / Elise Lemire
- Poe's philosophy of amalgamation: reading racism in the tales / Leland S. Person
- "Trust no man": Poe, Douglass, and the culture of slavery / J. Gerald Kennedy.