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Blood Work : Imagining Race in American Literature, 1890--1940 / Shawn Salvant.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Salvant, Shawn, 1974-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race in literature.
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The invocation of blood-as both an image and a concept-has long been critical in the formation of American racism. In Blood Work, Shawn Salvant mines works from the American literary canon to explore the multitude of associations that race and blood held in the consciousness of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Americans. Drawing upon race and metaphor theory, Salvant provides readings of four classic novels featuring themes of racial identity: Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894); Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood (1902); Frances Harper's Iola Leroy (1892); and William Faulkner's Lig
- Contents:
- Introduction: Race, blood, and the American racial imagination
- Mark Twain and the essence of ink
- Frances Harper and the blood of sacrifice
- Pauline Hopkins and the end of incest
- William Faulkner and the color of blood.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780807157879
- 0807157872
- 9780807157855
- 0807157856
- OCLC:
- 895048605
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