{"id":37091,"date":"2015-03-29T20:12:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T20:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37091"},"modified":"2015-03-29T20:13:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T20:13:10","slug":"blood-work-imagining-race-in-american-literature-1890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37091","title":{"rendered":"Blood Work: Imagining Race in American Literature, 1890-1940"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blood Work: Imagining Race in American Literature, 1890-1940<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Louisiana State University Press<\/a>
\nJanuary 2015
\n240 pages
\n5.50 x 8.50 inches
\nHardcover ISBN: 9780807157848<\/p>\n

Shawn Salvant<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of English and African American
\nUniversity of Connecticut<\/em><\/p>\n

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The invocation of blood\u2014as both an image and a concept\u2014has long been critical in the formation of American racism. In Blood Work<\/em>, Shawn Salvant mines works from the American literary canon to explore the multitude of associations that race and blood held in the consciousness of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Americans.<\/p>\n

Drawing upon race and metaphor theory, Salvant provides readings of four classic novels featuring themes of racial identity: Mark Twain\u2019s<\/a> Pudd\u2019nhead Wilson<\/em><\/a> (1894); Pauline Hopkins\u2019s<\/a> Of One Blood<\/em><\/a> (1902); Frances Harper\u2019s<\/a> Iola Leroy<\/em><\/a> (1892); and William Faulkner\u2019s<\/a> Light in August<\/em><\/a> (1932). His expansive analysis of blood imagery uncovers far more than the merely biological connotations that dominate many studies of blood rhetoric: the racial discourses of blood in these novels encompass the anthropological and the legal, the violent and the religious. Penetrating and insightful, Blood Work<\/em> illuminates the broad-ranging power of the blood metaphor to script distinctly American plots\u2014real and literary\u2014of racial identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blood Work: Imagining Race in American Literature, 1890-1940 Louisiana State University Press January 2015 240 pages 5.50 x 8.50 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780807157848 Shawn Salvant, Assistant Professor of English and African American University of Connecticut The invocation of blood\u2014as both an image and a concept\u2014has long been critical in the formation of American racism. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1196,8,17,20],"tags":[91,1051,885,149,90,17751,490],"class_list":["post-37091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-frances-harper","tag-louisiana-state-university-press","tag-lsu-press","tag-mark-twain","tag-pauline-hopkins","tag-shawn-salvant","tag-william-faulkner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}