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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... sexual terror : " [ T ] he European fear of interra- cial rape does not exist so long as there is a belief that colonial structures of power are firmly in place . " 51 Without her imagined do- minion , Maggie perceives her vulnerability ...
... sexual fear and guilt . Facing Gwendolen , Deronda , too , perceives marriage and sexual experience less as regeneration than as the van- ishing of the self in a strange and suffocating Otherness that is mir- rored by the plot of ...
... sexual interest . Neither character is sure that the Other is a suitable object of desire . The confluence of patriarchy , sexual in- terest , and ethnicity are wrapped in the overdetermined bit of cam- bric . The presence of the plot ...