@article{1480378,
      recid = {1480378},
      author = {Young, Elizabeth, },
      title = {Black Frankenstein : The Making of an American Metaphor /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1480378},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479809608.001.0001},
}