{"product_id":"9780807157862","title":"Blood Work: Imagining Race in American Literature, 1890--1940","description":"The invocation of blood-as both an image and a concept-has long been critical in the formation of American racism. In \u003cem\u003eBlood Work\u003c\/em\u003e, 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing upon race and metaphor theory, Salvant provides readings of four classic novels featuring themes of racial identity: Mark Twain's \u003cem\u003ePudd'nhead Wilson\u003c\/em\u003e (1894); Pauline Hopkins's \u003cem\u003eOf One Blood\u003c\/em\u003e (1902); Frances Harper's \u003cem\u003eIola Leroy\u003c\/em\u003e (1892); and William Faulkner's \u003cem\u003eLight in August\u003c\/em\u003e (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, \u003cem\u003eBlood Work\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates the broad-ranging power of the blood metaphor to script distinctly American plots-real and literary-of racial identity.","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129089343728,"sku":"9780807157862","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780807157862_p0.jpg?v=1763739068","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780807157862","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}