Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture

by Jennifer DeVere Brody

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822321203
• ISBN13: 9780822321200
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"