Conjugal Union - The Body, the House, and the Black American

Zusatztext Reid-Pharr, by contrast, takes pains to 'belabor' his points, resulting in a much more succint, and ultimately more satisfying piece of scholarship. Klappentext This book argues that during the antebellum period a community of free black northeastern intellectuals sought to establish the stability of a Black American subjectivity by figuring the black body as the necessary antecedent to any intelligible Black American public presence. Reid-Pharr goes on to argue that the fact of the black body's constant and often spectacular display demonstrates an incredible uncertainty as to that body's status. Thus antebellum black intellectuals were always anxious about how a stable relationship between the black community might be maintained. Paying particular attention Black American novels written before the Civil War, the author shows how the household was utilized by these writers to normalize this relationship of body to community such that a person could enter a household as a white and leave it as a black. Zusammenfassung Arguing that gender and sexuality have always played a role in questions of black national identity, the author identifies the origins of a "national" African-American literature in 1827 and the beginnings of a novelistic tradition. He shows how various forces shaped the ideal of the black family.

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• Autori: Robert Reid-Pharr, Robert F. Reid-Pharr, Robert F. (Assistant Professor of Engl Reid-Pharr, Robert F. (Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Program in Comparative American Cultures Reid-Pharr
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 19.08.1999
• EAN: 9780195104028
• ISBN: 978-0-19-510402-8
• Pagine: 192
• Serie: Race and American Culture; Race and American Culture
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; USA, Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Sociology: family & relationships, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, Gender studies, gender groups, Sociology: family and relationships, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity