Bordering on the body : the racial matrix of modern fiction and culture / Laura Doyle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doyle, Laura, author.

Series:

Race and American culture.

Oxford scholarship online.

Race and American culture

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

African Americans in literature.

Human body in literature.

Modernism (Literature).

Mothers in literature.

Race in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Argues that many major texts of 20th-century literature revolve around the concept of the mother figure. Examining novels of the Harlem Renaissance and Modernism and drawing upon the history of eugenics and anthropology, this study shows how mother figures represent symbols of race and ethnicity.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1. Of Race and Woman: Eugenics, Motherhood, and Racial Patriarchy; 2. Romanticism and the Race Aesthetic: Scott and Wordsworth; 3. Reimagining Materiality after Romanticism: Science, Phenomenology, and Narrative; 4. Swan Song for the Race Mother: Late-Romantic Narrative in Cane; 5. The Parodic Purge, the Maternal Return: Late-Romantic Narrative in Ulysses; 6. Voyaging Beyond the Race Mother: Melymbrosia and To the Lighthouse; 7. Burning Down the House: Interruptive Narrative in Invisible Man; 8. ""To Get to a Place"": Intercorporeality in Beloved; Conclusion; Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1994.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-261) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772330-6

1-280-55590-4

0-19-535875-9

OCLC:

252609866