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Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor (America and the Long 19th Century)
Black Frankenstein The Making of an American Metaphor - America and the Long 19th Century
Author: Elizabeth Young
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 Frankenste...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780814797150
ISBN-10: 0814797156
Publication Date: 8/10/2008
Pages: 336
Edition: illustrated edition
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Publisher: NYU Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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