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The Manichean Leitmotif: The Ideology and Psychology of Racism in American Fiction (2000) By Arthur J. Graham, Ph.D.
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By Arthur J. Graham and Serita Coffee.
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By Graham and Coffee Narrated by Serita Coffee, 45 min
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TITLE:
The Manichean Leitmotif: The Ideology and Psychology of Racism in American Fiction
Author: Arthur J. Graham, Ph.D.
Publisher: Image Analysts (2000) Los Angeles
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Book Description
The Manichean Leitmotif analyzes in well documented detail the work of English and American theologians and aestheticians, such as Cotton Mather, Edmund Burke, Samuel Gilman, Orville Dewey, Hugh Swinton Legaré, and others, as well as writers such as Dante and Milton, to show how light and dark, human and sub-human, good and evil, etc., came to be mixed up with Moors, Ethiopians, and the slave trade. Piece by piece Graham constructs a zeitgeist, which, although one may disagree with certain particulars, cannot, on the whole, be dismissed. |
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ISBN: 0965433420
Paperback: NEW
Price: $125.00
ISBN: O965433412
Hardcover: NEW
Price: $195.00
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Honors & Distinctions
The book made a significant and aesthetic contribution to the online entry description and definition of the term “leitmotif” in Wikipedia, wherein The Manichean Leitmotif gained the distinction:
Recommended Book Number 1 More: http://www.news-server.org/l/le/leitmotif.html http://www.freeglossary.com/Leitmotif
The book’s original research on Samuel Gilman was recently incorporated into his biography in Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography; Graham ascribed authorship of two articles, “Theory of Association in Matters of Taste” and “American Literature,” to Gilman, appearing in the Southern Review (August 1831). See “The Doctrine of Contrasted Extremes,” in Arthur J .Graham, The Manichean Leitmotif (2000). More:
http://www.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/samuelgilman.html
"What Graham shows in his text, a dissertation, is that racism in fiction does not just occur in the default by which whiteness is held as central, universal and blank or without the history that characterizes it to those offended by white history. He shows a deeper kind of vilification in the way scenes are depicted." Douglas Curt Lyons (More: See message 173921)
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