Romancing the Shadow

Poe and Race

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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Beskrivning

Edgar Allen Poe's strength as a writer lay in fabricating fantisies in settings far removed from his own place and time. This dislocation renders the attitudes embedded in his fiction open to interpretation, and over the years some readers have found Poe to be virulently racist, while others found him morally conflicted, and still others detected a subversion of racism in his works' subtle sympathies for non-white characters. As a nineteenth-century Southerner, Poe was a deeply ambiguous figure, evading race issues while living among them, and traversing the North-South border with little sensitivity to its political implications. In this tightly organized volume, a handful of leading Americanists revisit the Poe issue, re-examining what it means to speak of an author and his work as racist, and where the critic's responsibility lies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2001-07-26
Mått:207 x 280 x 18 mm
Vikt:708 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780195137118

Utforska kategorier

Diskriminering och rättvisa inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Recensioner i media

The ideas presented in Romancing the Shadow...stand as important additions to the field of Poe studies.

Innehållsförteckning

J. Gerald Kennedy and Liliane Weissberg: Introduction: Poe, Race, and Contemporary Criticism 1: Terence Whalen: Average Racism: Poe, Slavery, and the Wages of Literary Nationalism 2: Betsy Erkkila: The Poetics of Whiteness: Poe and the Racial Imaginary 3: John Carlos Rowe: Edgar Allan Poe's Imperial Fantasy and the American Frontier 4: Joan Dayan: Poe, Persons, and Property 5: Liliane Weissberg: Black, White, and Gold 6: Lindon Barrett: Presence of Mind: Detection and Racialization in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" 7: Elise Lemire: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue": Amalgamation Discourses and the Race Riots of 1838 in Poe's Philadelphia 8: Leland Person: Poe's Philosophy of Amalgamation: Reading Racism in the Tales 9: J. Gerald Kennedy: "Trust No Man": Poe, Douglass, and the Culture of Slavery Bibliography