Items
Details
Table of Contents
Introduction: Othellophilia
The heathen with the heart of gold: Othellophilia comes to America
Holes at the poles: Gothic horror and the racial abject
Sisters in bondage: abolition, amalgamation, and the crisis of female authorship
Handsome devils: romance, rape, racism, and the rhet(t)oric of darkness
invisible men, unspeakable acts: the spectacle of black male violence in modern American fiction
Conclusion: "White women are snaky" : Jungle Fever and its discontents.
The heathen with the heart of gold: Othellophilia comes to America
Holes at the poles: Gothic horror and the racial abject
Sisters in bondage: abolition, amalgamation, and the crisis of female authorship
Handsome devils: romance, rape, racism, and the rhet(t)oric of darkness
invisible men, unspeakable acts: the spectacle of black male violence in modern American fiction
Conclusion: "White women are snaky" : Jungle Fever and its discontents.