Gothic passages : racial ambiguity and the American gothic / Justin D. Edwards.

Contents Hybrid bodies and gothic narratives in Poe's Pym -- Gothic travels in Melville's Benito Cereno -- Passing and abjection in William and Ellen Craft's Running a thousand miles for freedom -- The epistemology of the body; or, gothic secrets in Frances E.W. Harper's Iola Leroy -- Genetic atavism and the return of the repressed in William Dean Howell's An imperative duty -- The haunted house behind the cedars: Charles W. Chesnutt and the "white negro" -- Epilogue: twentieth-century gothicism and racial ambiguity.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [123]-139) and index.
LCCN 2002066493
ISBN0877458243 (cloth : alk. paper)

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