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Blood Talk (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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Blood Talk (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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The United States has seldom known a period of greater social and
cultural volatility, especially in terms of race relations, than
the years from the end of Reconstruction to the First World War. In
this study, Susan Gillman explores the rise during this period of a
remarkable genre - the race melodrama - and the way in which it
converged with literary trends, popular history, fringe movements,
and mainstream interest in supernatural phenomena. "Blood Talk"
shows how race melodrama emerged from abolitionist works such as
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" and surprisingly manifested itself in a set of
more aesthetically and politically varied works, such as historical
romances, sentimental novels, the travel literature of Mark Twain,
the regional fiction of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable,
and the work of W.E.B. Du Bois. Gillman then uses the race
melodrama to show how racial discourses in the United States became
entangled with occultist phenomena, from the rituals of the Klu
Klux Klan and the concept of messianic second-sight to the
production of conspiracy theories and studies of dreams and
trances. A work of ambitious scope and compelling
cross-connections, "Blood Talk" sets new agendas for students of
American literature and culture.
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