Romancing the Shadow - Poe and Race (Hardcover)

Edgar Allan Poe's strength as a writer lay in fabricating fantasies 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 or his work as a racist, and where the critic's responsibility lies.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2001
First published:	June 2001
Editors:	J. Gerald Kennedy (William A. Read Professor of English) • Liliane Weissberg (Joseph B. Glossberg Term Professor in the Humanities, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory)
Dimensions:	243 x 160 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	310
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-513710-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Equal opportunities Promotions
LSN:	0-19-513710-8
Barcode:	9780195137101

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