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Book cover of 'Bordering on the Body: The Racial Matrix of Modern Fiction and Culture' by Laura Doyle, featuring a tan and dark brown map-like silhouette design with black text.A close-up of a printed book or publication page showing copyright and publisher text for Oxford University Press, photographed against a light neutral background.Half title of 'Bordering on the Body: The Racial Matrix of Modern Fiction and Culture' by Laura Doyle, published by Oxford University Press, featuring a minimalist beige and brown design with black text.The back cover of a book showing a light beige background with a large block of brown text and a vertical orange band on the left side. The title 'The Mother Figure' is visible at the top, along with author name Laura Deople and publisher information.

Bordering on the Body: The Racial Matrix of Modern Fiction and Culture

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Author: Laura Doyle
Title: Bordering on the Body: The Racial Matrix of Modern Fiction and Culture
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Place: New York and Oxford
Year: 1994
Edition: First printing
Format: Trade paperback
Page Count: 268 pages
ISBN: 0195086554
Condition: Covers show light rubbing, minor edge wear, and scattered small surface marks. The photographed interior pages appear clean, with light toning.
Provenance: From the estate of poet Everett Hoagland.

Laura Doyle examines how ideas about race, gender, motherhood, and the human body shape modern fiction. Bringing literary criticism into conversation with anthropology and the history of eugenics, she explores the cultural assumptions embedded in influential twentieth-century novels.

Her readings encompass Virginia Woolf, Jean Toomer, James Joyce, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison, connecting Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance through their representations of identity, ancestry, and belonging.

Part of Oxford’s Race and American Culture series, this study offers a distinctive perspective on familiar literary works and the relationship between storytelling and cultural history.

This first-printing paperback comes from the estate of poet Everett Hoagland, adding literary provenance to a volume concerned with race and creative expression.