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Blood Work : Imagining Race in American Literature, 1890-1940 /

The invocation of blood as both an image and a concept has long been critical in the formation of American racism. In Blood Work, Shawn Salvant mines works from the American literary canon to explore the multitude of associations that race and blood held in the consciousness of late nineteenth- and...

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Autor principal: Salvant, Shawn, 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Race, blood, and the American racial imagination
  • Mark Twain and the essence of ink
  • Frances Harper and the blood of sacrifice
  • Pauline Hopkins and the end of incest
  • William Faulkner and the color of blood.