Black Frankenstein

The Making of an American Metaphor

By:

Elizabeth Young

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Paperback / softback

Series:

America and the Long 19th Century

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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.

Author Biography:

Elizabeth Young is Professor of English and Gender Studies at Mount Holyoke College. She is the author of Disarming the Nation: Women's Writing and the American Civil War and co-author of On Alexander Gardner's ""Photographic Sketch Book"" of the Civil War.

Release date NZ

August 10th, 2008

Author

Elizabeth Young

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Illustrations

18 black and white illustrations

Pages

336

Series

America and the Long 19th Century

Dimensions

3895x5830x20

ISBN-13

9780814797167

Product ID

2759421

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