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Liminal Whiteness in Early Us Fiction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781474481748)
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xHannah Lauren Murray shows that early US authors repeatedly imagined lost, challenged and negated White racial identity in the new nation. In a Critical Whiteness reading of canonical and lesser-known texts from Charles Brockden Brown to Frank J. Webb, Murray argues that White characters on the border between life and death were liminal presences that disturbed prescriptions of racial belonging in the early US. Fears of losing Whiteness were routinely channelled through the language of liminality, in a precursor to today's White anxieties of marginalisation and minoritisation.
Author: Hannah Lauren Murray
ISBN-10: 1474481744
ISBN-13: 9781474481748
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/06/2023
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.46d
By Hannah Lauren Murray
xHannah Lauren Murray is Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Liverpool. Her research centres on race and citizenship in nineteenth-century American literature, with a specific focus on speculative genres. She has previously published in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation (2020), The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown (Oxford UP, 2019) and the Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies (2017) and she sits on the steering committee for the British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists (BrANCA).
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