Black Frankenstein - 9780814797167
Un libro in lingua di Elizabeth Young edito da New York Univ Pr, 2008
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For all the scholarship devoted to Mary Shelley's English novel Frankenstein, there has been surprisingly little attention paid to its role in American culture, and virtually none to its racial resonances in the United States. In Black Frankenstein, Elizabeth Young identifies and interprets the figure of a black American Frankenstein monster as it appears with surprising frequency throughout nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. culture, in fiction, film, essays, oratory, painting, and other media, and in works by both whites and African Americans.
Black Frankenstein stories, Young argues, effect four kinds of racial critique: they humanize the slave; they explain, if not justify, black violence; they condemn the slaveowner; and they expose the instability of white power. The black Frankenstein's monster has served as a powerful metaphor for reinforcing racial hierarchy?and as an even more powerful metaphor for shaping anti-racist critique. Illuminating the power of parody and reappropriation, Black Frankenstein tells the story of a metaphor that continues to matter to literature, culture, aesthetics, and politics.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Black Frankenstein
- Sottotitolo: The Making of an American Metaphor
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Elizabeth Young
- Editore: New York Univ Pr
- Collana: (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 10 Gennaio '08
- Genere: SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Argomenti : American literature White authors History and criticism American literature African American authors History and criticism African Americans in literature
- Pagine: 308
- Dimensioni mm: 228 x 152 x 19
- ISBN-10: 0814797164
- EAN-13: 9780814797167