Romancing the Shadow
Poe and Race
Edgar Allan 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 tig…
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Weitere Autoren: Weissberg, Liliane (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-513710-1
- EAN: 9780195137101
- Produktnummer: 22682926
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 310 S.
- Masse: H24.3 cm x B16.0 cm x D2.6 cm 576 g
- Abbildungen: 13 halftones
- Gewicht: 576
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