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Race, work, and desire in American literature, 1860-1930
- Title
- Race, work, and desire in American literature, 1860-1930 / Michele Birnbaum.
- Author
- Elam, Michele.
- Publication
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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Details
- Description
- x, 195 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
- Friendship in literature
- Race relations in literature
- Race in literature
- Interpersonal relations in literature
- Desire in literature
- American literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- African Americans in literature
- Work in literature
- Whites in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-190) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: working relations and racial desire -- Dressing down the first lady: Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the scenes, or thirty years a slave and four years in the White House -- Off-color patients in Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy and W. D. Howells' An imperative duty -- 'Alien hands' in Kate Chopin's The awakening -- 'For blood that is not yours': Langston Hughes and the art of patronage -- Epilogue: 'co-workers in the kingdom of culture'.
- Call Number
- Sc E 04-401
- ISBN
- 0521824257
- LCCN
- 2003043934
- OCLC
- 51848360
- Author
- Elam, Michele.
- Title
- Race, work, and desire in American literature, 1860-1930 / Michele Birnbaum.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-190) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 04-401