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Paperback Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture Book

ISBN: 0822321203

ISBN13: 9780822321200

Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture

Using black feminist theory and African American studies to read Victorian culture, Impossible Purities looks at the construction of "Englishness" as white, masculine, and pure and "Americanness" as black, feminine, and impure. Brody's readings of Victorian novels, plays, paintings, and science fiction reveal the impossibility of purity and the inevitability of hybridity in representations of ethnicity, sexuality, gender, and race. She amasses...

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