Dark Smiles: Race and Desire in George EliotAlthough George Eliot has long been described as "the novelist of the Midlands," she often brought the outer reaches of the empire home in her work. Dark Smiles: Race and Desire in George Eliot studies Eliot's problematic, career-long interest in representing racial and ethnic Otherness. |
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... constructed aspects of these terms . In my use of the terms “ cultural Other " and " Other , " I write from a perspective which recognizes Otherness as an invention of a domi- nant culture , here the culture of Victorian England . I ...
... constructed image of darkness to " wash " her English or European characters free of a com- pulsory sexual innocence . The weight of the construct of " white womanhood " is so heavy , and so despised , in Eliot's fiction that it is ...
... construct of difference , hooks's frustration speaks to the same issues as shown in Eliot's fiction . But it also inscribes an assumption that the " socially constructed image of white womanhood ” itself is not as pernicious a “ racist ...