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"Permanently Blacked": Julia Frankau's Jewish Race, Michael Galchinsky Jan 1999

"Permanently Blacked": Julia Frankau's Jewish Race, Michael Galchinsky

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If there is to be a challenge to the increasingly prevalent impulse to recover Anglo-Jewish texts from the silences of the archives, the challenge will undoubtedly arise in relation to the novels of Julia Frankau. Frankau’s late Victorian novels on Jewish subjects, Dr. Phillips: A Maida Vale Idyll (1887) and Pigs in Clover (1903), explore and authorize a particular set of attitudes known as “Jewish self-hatred” and legitimate these attitudes by recourse to an idiosyncratic form of scientific racism. Moreover, these texts have served as spurs to the production of racial anti-Semitism. In such a case, what does it mean …


Grace Aguilar’S Correspondence, Michael Galchinsky Jan 1999

Grace Aguilar’S Correspondence, Michael Galchinsky

English Faculty Publications

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