How it feels to be without a face: race and the reorientation of sympathy in the 1890s
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The reorientation of public sympathy towards enslaved African Americans in the 1890s is discussed by examining Stephen Crane's 1898 story "The Monster". It is suggested that the racist "double-consciousness" of the time transformed the meaning and function of sympathy from the solution to a social problem of slavery to a social problem by itself.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 2006
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"We must write like the White Men': Race, realism, and Dunbar's anomalous first novel
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Anomalous African American literature as illustrated by Paul Laurence Dunbar's first novel "Majors and Minors", refutes the belief that Whiteness is raceless and universal while Blackness is racial and peculiar. Anomalous African American literature is valuable as it questions the universalism of Whiteness and the racial realism of Blackness.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 2004
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Dislocating literature: the novel and the Gretna Green romance, 1770-1850
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Historians and theorists of the novel have noted that the genre's spiritual home that was in the Scottish border village of Gretna Green was in the minds of late eighteenth-century British conservative cultural commentators. William Gilpin has mapped the topography of Britain in terms of a cultural hierarchy of genres and conventions.
Publication Name: Novel
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0029-5132
Year: 2001
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