aIn Black Frankenstein, Young tears apart and rearranges the
monster we think we know into something entirely fresh and
challenging. This excellent and provocative book offers a
compelling lesson in the political and cultural uses of a metaphor
organized by design, as well as unconsciously, into a racial
paradigm.a
--Eric J. Sundquist, author of "Strangers in the Land: Blacks,
Jews, Post-Holocaust America"
For all the scholarship devoted to Mary Shelleyas English novel
"Frankenstein," there has been surprisingly little attention paid
to its role in American culture, and virtually none to its racial
resonances in the United States. In Black Frankenstein, Elizabeth
Young identifies and interprets the figure of a black American
Frankenstein monster as it appears with surprising frequency
throughout nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. culture, in
fiction, film, essays, oratory, painting, and other media, and in
works by both whites and African Americans.
Black Frankenstein stories, Young argues, effect four kinds of
racial critique: they humanized the slave; they explain, if not
justify, black violence; they condemn the slaveowner; and they
expose the instability of white power. The black Frankenstein
monster has served as a powerful metaphor for reinforcing racial
hierarchy--and as an even more powerful metaphor for shaping
anti-racist critique. While illuminating the power of parody and
reappropriation, Black Frankenstein tells the story of a metaphor
that continues to matter to literature, culture, aesthetics, and
politics.
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