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Gothic passages : racial ambiguity and the American gothic /
This groundbreaking study analyzes the development of American gothic literature alongside nineteenth-century discourses of passing and racial ambiguity. By bringing together these areas of analysis, Justin Edwards considers the following questions. How are the categories of "race" and the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Hybrid bodies and gothic narratives in Poe's Pym
- Gothic travels in Melville's Benito Cereno
- Passing and abjection in William and Ellen Craft's Running a thousand miles for freedom
- The epistemology of the body; or, gothic secrets in Frances E.W. Harper's Iola Leroy
- Genetic atavism and the return of the repressed in William Dean Howell's An imperative duty
- The haunted house behind the cedars: Charles W. Chesnutt and the "white negro"
- Epilogue: twentieth-century gothicism and racial ambiguity.