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BL
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1008611
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b762981
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| Main Entry
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Doyle, Laura, (Laura Anne)
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Bordering on the body : : the racial matrix of modern fiction and culture /\ Laura Doyle.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, 1994.
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| Series Statement
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Race and American culture
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1 online resource (268 pages)
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| ISBN
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0195086546
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: 0195358759
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: 9780195086546
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: 9780195358759
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0195086546
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0195086554
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9780195086553
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-261) and index.
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| Contents
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Of race and woman : eugenics, motherhood, and racial patriarchy -- Romanticism and the race aesthetic : Scott and Wordsworth -- Reimagining materiality after romanticism : science, phenomenology, and narrative -- Swan song for the race mother : late-romantic narrative in Cane -- The parodic purge, the maternal return : late-romantic narrative in Ulysses -- Voyaging beyond the race mother : Melymbrosia and To the lighthouse -- Burning down the house : interruptive narrative in Invisible man -- "To get to a place" : intercorporeality in Beloved.
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| Abstract
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The figure of the mother in literature and the arts has been the subject of much recent critical attention. Whereas many studies have focused on women writers and the maternal, Laura Doyle significantly broadens the field by tracing the racial logic internal to Western representations of maternality at least since Romanticism. She formulates a theory of "racial patriarchy" in which the circumscription of reproduction within racial borders engenders what she calls the "race mother" in literary and cultural narratives. Pairing literary movements not often considered together-
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans-- Intellectual life-- 20th century.
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American fiction-- African American authors-- History and criticism.
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American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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English fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Human body in literature.
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Modernism (Literature)-- English-speaking countries.
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Mothers in literature.
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Race in literature.
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African Americans in literature.
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African Americans-- Intellectual life.
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American fiction-- African American authors.
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American fiction.
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English fiction.
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Human body in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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Modernism (Literature)
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Mothers in literature.
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Race in literature.
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Fictie.
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Menselijk lichaam.
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Rassenverhoudingen.
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English-speaking countries.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.509896073
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PS374.N4D65 1994eb
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