Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor

by Elizabeth Young

Book Overview

For 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 Black Frankenstein, 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814797164
• ISBN13: 9780814797167
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.7"