Romancing the Shadow : Poe and Race

Name: Romancing the Shadow
Brand: Oxford University Press Inc
SKU: 9780195137101
Price: 29950 KES
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ISBN: 9780195137101

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0195137108

ISBN-13 9780195137101

Publisher Oxford University Press Inc

Imprint Oxford University Press Inc

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 19th, 2001

Print length 320 Pages

Weight 573 grams

Dimensions 3.30 x 15.20 x 22.40 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Social discrimination & inequality Ethnic studies

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Edgar Allan Poe's strength as a writer lay in fabricating fantasies in settings far removed from his own place and time. This book revisits the Poe's issue, re-examining what it means to speak of an author or his work as a racist, and where the critic's responsibility lies.

Edgar Allen Poe''s strength as a writer lay in fabricating fantisies in settings far removed from his own place and time. This dislocation renders the attitudes embedded in his fiction open to interpretation, and over the years some readers have found Poe to be virulently racist, while others found him morally conflicted, and still others detected a subversion of racism in his works'' subtle sympathies for non-white characters. As a nineteenth-century Southerner, Poe was a deeply ambiguous figure, evading race issues while living among them, and traversing the North-South border with little sensitivity to its political implications. In this tightly organized volume, a handful of leading Americanists revisit the Poe issue, re-examining what it means to speak of an author and his work as racist, and where the critic''s responsibility lies.

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