Romancing the Shadow : Poe and Race
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0195137116
ISBN-13
9780195137118
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 26th, 2001
Print length
320 Pages
Weight
764 grams
Dimensions
28.00 x 21.00 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Social discrimination & inequalityEthnic 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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