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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
"Borgstrom s Minority Reports is literary and social criticism of the highest order. Although his spirited readings ostensibly concern nineteenth-century American texts - Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Harriet Wilson among others - the book asks us to commit ourselves to a nuanced understanding of identity and what it can teach us in the present moment. Borgstrom reads Uncle Tom s Cabin through the character Adolph, brilliantly questioning the non-normative gender concerns of the novel; by the same token, his analysis of Iola Leroy reminds us of how badly many of us have misread that complex text. Borgstrom, time and time again, in prose as graceful as it is lucid, explains what all of us know but fail to articulate: how our identities, if imaginatively and intellectually confronted, can teach us about the world and others. This book does just that, and we are all the better for it." - Kenneth A. McClane, W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of Literature, Cornell University
"In this cogent reconsideration of the ways constructed identities function in and beyond literary texts, Borgstrom has produced an essential work of scholarship. Minority Reports challenges the conventional wisdom on social identity and returns us to a world of nineteenth-century writing that still speaks volumes about where and who we are today. Along the way, he draws us into a realm of history that can be recovered and understood only through literature. An outstanding achievement." - John Ernest, Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of American Literature, West Virginia University, and author of Chaotic Justice: Rethinking African American Literary History (2009)
About the author
MICHAEL BORGSTROM is Assistant Professor of English at San Diego State University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Minority Reports
Book Subtitle: Identity and Social Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Authors: Michael Borgstrom
Series Title: Future of Minority Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230109711
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-62263-0Published: 18 August 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-38424-2Published: 18 August 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-10971-1Published: 05 July 2010
Series ISSN: 2945-7696
Series E-ISSN: 2945-770X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 183
Topics: North American Literature, Gender Studies, African American Culture