Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race

Book Overview

The nine essays gathered here pursue the provocative implications of Toni Morrison's claim that no early American writer was more important than Poe in shaping a concept of "American Africanism," an image of racialized blackness destined to haunt the Euro-American imagination. As contributors to this volume reveal, Poe's response to the "shadow" of blackness--like his participation in the cultural construction of whiteness--was both problematic and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195137116
• ISBN13: 9780195137118
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.2" x 11.0"