Impossible Purities

Blackness, Femininity, And Victorian Culture

by Jennifer Devere Brody
language: english
Publisher: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS, November of 1998 ‧
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Using black feminist theory and African American studies to read Victorian culture, this title looks at the construction of "Englishness" as white, masculine, and pure and "Americanness" as black, feminine, and impure.

Impossible Purities

Blackness, Femininity, And Victorian Culture

by Jennifer Devere Brody

Property Description
ISBN: 9780822321057
Publisher: DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: November of 1998
Language: English
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Format: Book
Collection: Post-Contemporary Interventions
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > History of Literature
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9780822321057

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