{"product_id":"black-frankenstein-the-making-of-an-american-metaphor-9780814797167","title":"Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor 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 \u003cb\u003eBlack Frankenstein\u003c\/b\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003eBlack 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, \u003cb\u003eBlack Frankenstein\u003c\/b\u003e tells the story of a metaphor that continues to matter to literature, culture, aesthetics, and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eYoung, Elizabeth:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Young\u003c\/b\u003e 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.","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50845546217746,"sku":"9780814797167","price":40.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bdbd834b-50bc-4ffe-92fc-6d767c5312b0.jpg?v=1737353436","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/black-frankenstein-the-making-of-an-american-metaphor-9780814797167","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}