TY  - BOOK
AU  - Young,Elizabeth
TI  - Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor 
T2  - America and the Long 19th Century
SN  - 9780814797150
AV  - PS173.N4 Y68 2008eb
U1  - 810.9/352996073 22
PY  - 2008///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - African Americans in literature
KW  - American literature
KW  - African American authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - White authors
KW  - Metaphor in literature
KW  - Monsters in literature
KW  - Monsters in motion pictures
KW  - Race in literature
KW  - Race relations in literature
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - African
KW  - American
KW  - Americans
KW  - Elizabeth
KW  - Frankenstein
KW  - US
KW  - Young
KW  - appears
KW  - black
KW  - both
KW  - culture
KW  - essays
KW  - fiction
KW  - figure
KW  - film
KW  - frequency
KW  - identifies
KW  - interprets
KW  - media
KW  - monster
KW  - nineteenth-
KW  - oratory
KW  - other
KW  - painting
KW  - surprising
KW  - throughout
KW  - twentieth-century
KW  - whites
KW  - with
KW  - works
N1  - restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479809608
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479809608/original
ER  -