Bordering on the Body: The Racial Matrix of Modern Fiction and Culture

by Laura Doyle and Laura Doyle

Book Overview

The figure of the mother in literature and the arts has been the subject of much recent critical attention. Whereas many studies have focused on women writers and the maternal, Laura Doyle significantly broadens the field by tracing the racial logic internal to Western representations of maternality at least since Romanticism. She formulates a theory of "racial patriarchy" in which the circumscription of reproduction within racial borders engenders...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195086554
• ISBN13: 9780195086553
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"