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Dirty Whites and Dark Secrets
Sally Hirsh-Dickinson
其他書名
Sex and Race in Peyton Place
出版UPNE, 2011
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / American / General
ISBN16116821509781611682151
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=sgqEAr75Q-gC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In a surprise rereading of the classic Peyton Place by Grace Metalious, Sally Hirsh-Dickinson contends that it scandalized the nation precisely because of the way in which sexuality in the novel is conflated with America's problematic relationship to race. This charge is buttressed by the oft-forgotten detail that the fictional Peyton Place was founded by one Samuel Peyton, an escaped slave.
Hirsh-Dickinson argues that the town's inability to come to terms with its black history informs its dysfunctional relationship to sex, power, and justice, mirroring America on the eve of the civil rights movement. She writes of New England in the larger American consciousness, touching on discussions of white studies and the racialized lower classes in American fiction. Dirty Whites and Dark Secrets is a thought-provoking study of a genre classic that will speak to both scholars and students about the deeper truths hidden in popular fiction.