Bordering on the body : the racial matrix of modern fiction and culture /

Bordering on the body : the racial matrix of modern fiction and culture / Laura Doyle.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Doyle, Laura
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
Series:Race and American culture.
Subjects:
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Modernism (Literature) > English-speaking countries.
African Americans in literature.
Human body in literature.
Mothers in literature.
Race in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Of race and woman : eugenics, motherhood, and racial patriarchy
  • Romanticism and the race aesthetic : Scott and Wordsworth
  • Reimagining materiality after romanticism : science, phenomenology, and narrative
  • Swan song for the race mother : late-romantic narrative in Cane
  • The parodic purge, the maternal return : late-romantic narrative in Ulysses
  • Voyaging beyond the race mother : Melymbrosia and To the lighthouse
  • Burning down the house : interruptive narrative in Invisible man
  • "To get to a place" : intercorporeality in Beloved.

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