The Woman of Colour's Counter-Domesticity

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STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI:10.1353/srm.2022.0010

Kathleen Lubey

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Abstract

Abstract:This essay explains why The Woman of Colour cannot assimilate Olivia Fairfield into Romantic-era marriage: a black matriline and Jamaican upbringing imbue the heroine's abolitionism with a racial consciousness white women could not claim. Such an articulate criticism, while necessary for the novel's anti-slavery stance, is at odds with its domestic ideology, which requires instead the translucent, dependent figure of Angelina as the ideal wife. By setting up such a contrast of feminine subjectivities, the novel aligns a global feminist consciousness with women of color rather than the dependent white women associated with British marriage.

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有色人种女性的反家庭主义

摘要:本文解释了《有色人种的女人》中奥利维亚·费尔菲尔德无法融入浪漫主义时代婚姻的原因:黑人母系和牙买加的教养使女主人公的废奴主义充满了白人女性所没有的种族意识。这种清晰的批评，虽然对小说的反奴隶制立场是必要的，但与它的国内意识形态不一致，后者需要透明的、依赖的安吉丽娜作为理想的妻子。通过建立女性主体性的对比，小说将全球女权主义意识与有色人种女性联系在一起，而不是与英国婚姻中依赖的白人女性联系在一起。

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期刊介绍： Studies in Romanticism was founded in 1961 by David Bonnell Green at a time when it was still possible to wonder whether "romanticism" was a term worth theorizing (as Morse Peckham deliberated in the first essay of the first number). It seemed that it was, and, ever since, SiR (as it is known to abbreviation) has flourished under a fine succession of editors: Edwin Silverman, W. H. Stevenson, Charles Stone III, Michael Cooke, Morton Palet, and (continuously since 1978) David Wagenknecht. There are other fine journals in which scholars of romanticism feel it necessary to appear - and over the years there are a few important scholars of the period who have not been represented there by important work.