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Household Words: Bloomers, Sucker, Bombshell, Scab, Nigger, Cyber
Hardback
Main Details
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Household Words: Bloomers, Sucker, Bombshell, Scab, Nigger, Cyber
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Stephanie Smith
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| Category/Genre | Literary studies - general |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780816645527
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| Classifications | Dewey:427.973 |
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| Illustrations |
5 halftones
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
University of Minnesota Press
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| Imprint |
University of Minnesota Press
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| Publication Date |
1 January 2006 |
| Publication Country |
United States
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Description
Looking in detail at words that "treat people as things, and things as people, and do so at that strange space where joking, ridiculing, demeaning, oppressing, resisting, and regretting converge," this book is a study of how certain words act as indices of political and social change, perpetuating anxieties and prejudices even as those ways of thinking have been seemingly resolved or overcome by history.
Author Biography
Stephanie A. Smith is associate professor of English at the University of Florida and the author of Conceived by Liberty: Maternal Figures and Nineteenth-Century American Literature as well as three novels.
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