Black Frankenstein : The Making of an American Metaphor / Elizabeth Young.
2008
PS173.N4 Y68 2008eb
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Title
Black Frankenstein : The Making of an American Metaphor / Elizabeth Young.
Author
Young, Elizabeth, author.
ISBN
9781479809608
Published
New York, NY : New York University Press, [2008]
Copyright
©2008
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource : 18 black and white illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers
10.18574/nyu/9781479809608.001.0001 doi
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PS173.N4 Y68 2008eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
810.9/352996073
Summary
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.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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Series
America and the Long 19th Century ; 22
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print 9780814797150
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 United States of Frankenstein
2 Black Monsters, Dead Metaphors
3 The Signifying Monster
4 Souls on Ice
Afterword
Notes
Index
About the Author
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 United States of Frankenstein
2 Black Monsters, Dead Metaphors
3 The Signifying Monster
4 Souls on Ice
Afterword
Notes
Index
About the Author