{"product_id":"9780814745373","title":"Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor all the scholarship devoted to Mary Shelley's English novel \u003cem\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/em\u003e, there has been surprisingly little attention paid to its role in American culture, and virtually none to its racial resonances in the United States. In \u003cstrong\u003eBlack Frankenstein\u003c\/strong\u003e, Elizabeth Young identifies and interprets the figure of a black American Frankenstein monster as it appears with surprising frequency throughout nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. culture, in fiction, film, essays, oratory, painting, and other media, and in works by both whites and African Americans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlack Frankenstein stories, Young argues, effect four kinds of racial critique: they humanize the slave; they explain, if not justify, black violence; they condemn the slaveowner; and they expose the instability of white power. The black Frankenstein's monster has served as a powerful metaphor for reinforcing racial hierarchy—and as an even more powerful metaphor for shaping anti-racist critique. Illuminating the power of parody and reappropriation, \u003cstrong\u003eBlack Frankenstein\u003c\/strong\u003e tells the story of a metaphor that continues to matter to literature, culture, aesthetics, and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069198221552,"sku":"9780814745373","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780814745373_p0.jpg?v=1763740671","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780814745373","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}