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Race, work, and desire in American literature, 1860-1930 /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Race, work, and desire in American literature, 1860-1930 // Michele Birnbaum.
remainder title:	Race, Work, & Desire in American Literature, 1860-1930
Author:	Elam, Michele,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 195 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	American literature - History and criticism. - 20th century -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511519284
ISBN:	9780511519284 (ebook)

Race, work, and desire in American literature, 1860-1930 /
Elam, Michele,

Race, work, and desire in American literature, 1860-1930 /Race, Work, & Desire in American Literature, 1860-1930Michele Birnbaum. - 1 online resource (x, 195 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;138. - Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;165..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction: working relations and racial desire -- Dressing down the first lady: Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the scenes, or thirty years a slave and four years in the White House -- Off-color patients in Frances E.W. Harper's Iola Leroy and W.D. Howells's An imperative duty -- 'Alien hands' in Kate Chopin's The awakening -- 'For blood that is not yours': Langston Hughes and the art of patronage -- Epilogue: 'co-workers in the kingdom of culture'.

Race, Work and Desire analyses literary representations of work relationships across the colour-line from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Michele Birnbaum examines inter-racial bonds in fiction and literary correspondence by black and white authors and artists - including Elizabeth Keckley, Frances E. W. Harper, W. D. Howells, Grace King, Kate Chopin, Langston Hughes, Amy Spingarn and Carl Van Vechten - exploring the way servants and employers, doctors and patients, and patrons and artists negotiate their racial differences for artistic and political ends. Situating these relationships in literary and cultural context, Birnbaum argues that the literature reveals the complexity of cross-racial relations in the workplace, which, although often represented as an oasis of racial harmony, is in fact the very site where race politics are most fiercely engaged. This study productively complicates current debates about cross-racial collaboration in American literary and race studies, and will be of interest to scholars in both literary and cultural studies.

ISBN: 9780511519284 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

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American literature
--History and criticism.--20th century

LC Class. No.: PS228.R32 / B57 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 810.9/355

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