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Tells the story of a metaphor that continues to matter to literature, culture, aesthetics, and politics

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 United States of Frankenstein 2 Black Monsters, Dead Metaphors 3 The Signifying Monster 4 Souls on Ice Afterword Notes Index About the Author

About the Author

Elizabeth Young is Professor of English and Gender Studies at Mount Holyoke College. She is the author of Disarming the Nation: Women's Writing and the American Civil War and co-author of On Alexander Gardner's ""Photographic Sketch Book"" of the Civil War.

Reviews

"A subtle, complex, and deeply read romp through the last two centuries of transatlantic literary and cultural history. Truly eye-opening and provocative." Eric Lott, University of Virginia "In Black Frankenstein, Young tears apart and rearranges the monster we think we know into something entirely fresh and challenging. This excellent and provocative book offers a compelling lesson in the political and cultural uses of a metaphor organized by design, as well as unconsciously, into a racial paradigm." Eric J. Sundquist, author of Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America