Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor, Young Elizabeth
Автор: Young Elizabeth Название: Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor ISBN: 0814797164 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814797167 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 4288.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
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.
In Pet Projects, Elizabeth Young joins an analysis of the representation of animals in nineteenth-century fiction, taxidermy, and the visual arts with a first-person reflection on her own scholarly journey. Centering on Margaret Marshall Saunders, a Canadian woman writer once famous for her animal novels, and incorporating Young's own experience of a beloved animal's illness, this study highlights the personal and intellectual stakes of a "pet project" of cultural criticism.
Young assembles a broad archive of materials, beginning with Saunders's novels and widening outward to include fiction, nonfiction, photography, and taxidermy. She coins the term "first-dog voice" to describe the narrative technique of novels, such as Saunders's Beautiful Joe, written in the first person from the perspective of an animal. She connects this voice to contemporary political issues, revealing how animal fiction such as Saunders's reanimates nineteenth-century writing about both feminism and slavery. Highlighting the prominence of taxidermy in the late nineteenth century, she suggests that Saunders transforms taxidermic techniques in surprising ways that provide new forms of authority for women. Young adapts Freud to analyze literary representations of mourning by and for animals, and she examines how Canadian writers, including Saunders, use animals to explore race, ethnicity, and national identity. Her wide-ranging investigation incorporates twenty-first as well as nineteenth-century works of literature and culture, including recent art using taxidermy and contemporary film. Throughout, she reflects on the tools she uses to craft her analyses, examining the state of scholarly fields from feminist criticism to animal studies.
With a lively, first-person voice that highlights experiences usually concealed in academic studies by scholarly discourse--such as detours, zigzags, road blocks, and personal experience--this unique and innovative book will delight animal enthusiasts and academics in the fields of animal studies, gender studies, American studies, and Canadian studies.
Автор: Young Elizabeth Название: Girl`s Best Friend, A ISBN: 0060562773 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060562779 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Рейтинг: Цена: 1566.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is the third book from Elizabeth Young, whose sparkling wit and clever storytelling has set her off to a great start with ASKING FOR TROUBLE, which has more than 60,000 copies shipped in trade paperback. This delightful tale about a young woman, her loyal dog, a somewhat less dependable man, and one who shows much promise is bound to place the author in a position for increased growth and popularity.
Автор: Young Elizabeth Название: Asking for Trouble ISBN: 0380818973 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780380818976 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 2619.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Only one wedding and no funeral, but twice as funny! This engaging debut novel sold like hotcakes around the world before we were able to snatch it up for US publication. Elizabeth Young's smart and funny romantic comedy will, without doubt, capture the imagination of American women.
Автор: Young Elizabeth Название: Wedding Date CD, The ISBN: 0060816082 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060816087 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 1980.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Only one wedding and no funeral, but twice as funny! This engaging debut novel sold like hotcakes around the world before we were able to snatch it up for US publication. Elizabeth Young’s smart and funny romantic comedy will, without doubt, capture the imagination of American women.
Автор: Young Elizabeth Название: Making Mischief ISBN: 0060784784 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780060784782 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Цена: 1353.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From the author of the hugely successful Asking for Trouble (now a major movie tie-in entitled The Wedding Date) comes a new romp in which Cupid seems to be a bit trigger-happy. Abby would NEVER EVER steal her beloved cousin Fleur’s boyfriend, even if she fancied him. It’s a pity, really because they are so well suited to each other...
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