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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... figure whose ethnic Otherness represents the problem of female desire and the desire for political and cultural change . So clear is Eliot's narrative attraction to the figure of the ex- otic intruder that she creates one where he may ...
... figure . Subverting stock characterizations , the play's " fem- ininity is not opposed to blackness and monstrosity , as white to black , but identified with the monstrous , an identification that makes miscegenation doubly fearful ...
... figure and as such is established as early as his first meeting with Mirah . Continuing to reverse the moral color code of Othello , Mirah Lapi- doth , whose face is “ an onyx cameo , " is goodness incarnate , a child- woman whose ...