Title Black Frankenstein : the making of an American metaphor / Elizabeth Young

Published New York : New York University Press, [2008] ©2008

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Series America and the long 19th century America and the long 19th century. Contents Introduction -- United States of Frankenstein -- Black monsters, dead metaphors -- The signifying monster -- Souls on ice Summary For all the scholarship devoted to Mary Shelley's 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 humanize the slave; they explain, if not justify, black violence; they condemn the slaveowner; and they expose the instability of white power. The black Frankenstein's monster has served as a powerful metaphor for reinforcing racial hierarchy--and as an even more powerful metaphor for shaping anti-racist critique. 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-291) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character) Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character) -- Political aspects Frankenstein's Monster (Fictitious character) SUBJECT Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character) -- Political aspects Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character) fast Frankenstein's Monster (Fictitious character) fast Monstrum -- Motiv -- Literatur -- USA. idsbb Frankenstein -- Motiv -- Literatur -- USA. idsbb Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. swd Frankenstein. swd Subject American literature -- White authors -- History and criticism American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism African Americans in literature. Race in literature. Race relations in literature. Monsters in literature. Metaphor in literature. Monsters in motion pictures. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. African Americans in literature American literature -- African American authors American literature -- White authors Metaphor in literature Monsters in literature Monsters in motion pictures Race in literature Race relations in literature Literatur Metapher Literatur -- USA -- Motiv -- Monstrum. Literatur -- USA -- Motiv -- Frankenstein. Literatur -- USA -- Motiv -- Rasse. Rasse -- Motiv -- Literatur -- USA. Amerikansk litteratur -- analys och tolkning. Afro-amerikaner i litteraturen. Monster i litteraturen. Monster på film. Monster i litteraturen. Frankenstein. USA Schwarze <Motiv> Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781479809608 1479809608

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