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Dark Smiles - Race and Desire in George Eliot (Hardcover, 1)
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Dark Smiles - Race and Desire in George Eliot (Hardcover, 1)
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Although George Eliot has long been described as "the novelist of
the Midlands," she often brought the outer reaches of the empire
home in her work. "Dark Smiles: Race and Desire in George Eliot"
studies Eliot's problematic, career-long interest in representing
racial and ethnic Otherness.
Placing Eliot's diverse and wide-ranging treatment of Otherness in
its contemporary context, Alicia Carroll argues that Eliot both
engages and resists traditional racial and ethnic representations
of Otherness. Carroll finds that Eliot, like other women writers of
her time, often appropriates narratives of Otherness to explore
issues silenced in mainstream Victorian culture, particularly the
problem of the desirous woman. But if Otherness in Eliot's century
was usually gendered as woman and constructed as the object of
white male desire, Eliot often seeks to subvert that vision.
Professor Carroll demonstrates Eliot's tendency to "exoticize"
images of girlhood, vocation, and maternity in order to critique
and explore gendered subjectivities. Indeed, the disruptive
presence of a racial or ethnic outsider often fractures Eliot's
narratives of community, creating a powerful critique of home
culture.
The consistent reliance of Eliot's work upon racial and ethnic
Otherness as a mode of cultural critique is explored here for the
first time in its entirety.
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