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Blood talk : American race melodrama and the culture of the occult / Susan Gillman.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gillman, Susan Kay.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963--Political and social views.
- Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Hopkins, Pauline E. (Pauline Elizabeth)--Political and social views.
- Hopkins, Pauline E.
- Griggs, Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert), 1872-1933--Political and social views.
- Griggs, Sutton E.
- Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 1864-1946--Political and social views.
- Dixon, Thomas.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Political and social views.
- Twain, Mark.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
- Dixon, Thomas, Jr., 1864-1946.
- Griggs, Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert), 1872-1933.
- Hopkins, Pauline E. (Pauline Elizabeth).
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Race in literature.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- African Americans in literature.
- Occultism in literature.
- Political and social views.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 245 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- In this study, Susan Gillman explores America during the years from the end of Reconstruction to the First World War, and the rise during this period of a remarkable genre - the race melodrama - and the ways in which it converged with literary trends, popular history, and fringe movements.
- Contents:
- American race melodramas in the culture of the occult
- An introduction
- Pauline Hopkins and blood talk
- Revising racial science, telling race history in maternal melodramas
- Procrustean bedfellows?
- Black nationalism and white supremacy at the turn of the century
- Mark Twain and fellow occult travelers
- W.E.B. Du Bois and occult history
- Politics of occult time; or, but is it any good?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-235) and index.
- William Sanders Scarborough Prize, Honorable Mention, 2003
- ISBN:
- 0226293890
- 9780226293899
- 0226293904
- 9780226293905
- OCLC:
- 51817447
- Publisher Number:
- 40009582748
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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