Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor Contributor(s): Young, Elizabeth (Author) |
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ISBN: 0814797156 ISBN-13: 9780814797150 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $88.11 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2008 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Art | Criticism & Theory |
Dewey: 810.935 |
LCCN: 2008008049 |
Series: America and the Long 19th Century |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9" (1.15 lbs) 336 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Young, Elizabeth: - 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. |