Blood Talk: American Race Melodrama and the Culture of the Occult, , Gillman, Pr
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- Book Title
- Blood Talk: American Race Melodrama and the Culture of the Occult
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226293904
ISBN-13
9780226293905
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1711203
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Publication Name
Blood Talk : American Race Melodrama and the Culture of the Occult
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Subject
Horror & Supernatural, American / African American, American / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
14 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2003-005007
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
810.9/355
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Chapter One American Race Melodramas in the Culture of the Occult An Introduction Chapter Two Pauline Hopkins and Blood Talk Revising Racial Science, Telling Race History in Maternal Melodramas Chapter Three Procrustean Bedfellows? Black Nationalism and White Supremacy at the Turn of the Century Chapter Four Mark Twain and Fellow Occult Travelers Chapter Five W. E. B. Du Bois and Occult History Epilogue The Politics of Occult Time; or, But Is It Any Good? Notes Index
Synopsis
The United States has seldom known a period of greater social and cultural volatility, especially in terms of race relations, than the years from the end of Reconstruction to the First World War. In this highly original study, Susan Gillman explores the rise during this period of a remarkable genre the race melodrama and the way in which it converged with literary trends, popular history, fringe movements, and mainstream interest in supernatural phenomena. "Blood Talk" shows how race melodrama emerged from abolitionist works such as Uncle Tom's Cabin and surprisingly manifested itself in a set of more aesthetically and politically varied works, such as historical romances, sentimental novels, the travel literature of Mark Twain, the regional fiction of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable, and the work of W. E. B. Du Bois. Gillman then uses the race melodrama to show how racial discourses in the United States have been entangled with occultist phenomena, from the rituals of the Ku Klux Klan and the concept of messianic second-sight to the production of conspiracy theories and studies of dreams and trances. ", The United States has seldom known a period of greater social and cultural volatility, especially in terms of race relations, than the years from the end of Reconstruction to the First World War. In this highly original study, Susan Gillman explores the rise during this period of a remarkable genre--the race melodrama--and the way in which it converged with literary trends, popular history, fringe movements, and mainstream interest in supernatural phenomena. Blood Talk shows how race melodrama emerged from abolitionist works such as Uncle Tom's Cabin and surprisingly manifested itself in a set of more aesthetically and politically varied works, such as historical romances, sentimental novels, the travel literature of Mark Twain, the regional fiction of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable, and the work of W. E. B. Du Bois. Gillman then uses the race melodrama to show how racial discourses in the United States have been entangled with occultist phenomena, from the rituals of the Ku Klux Klan and the concept of messianic second-sight to the production of conspiracy theories and studies of dreams and trances.
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PS228.R32
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