In the master's eye : representations of women, Blacks, and poor whites in antebellum Southern literature /
This book explores the way in which literature can be used to reinforce social power. Through rigorous readings of a series of antebellum plantation novels, Susan J. Tracy shows how the narrative strategies employed by proslavery Southern writers served to justify and perpetuate the oppression of wo...
| Основен автор: | Tracy, Susan Jean, 1947- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Amherst, Mass. :
University of Massachusetts Press,
℗♭1995.
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Print version::
In the master's eye. |
Съдържание:
- The antebellum South
- The production of Southern literature
- The form of Southern literature
- The genesis of the "Plantation novel"
- Representing Southern women's lives
- Unmarried women: the "Belle," passive sufferer versus spirited woman
- Unmarried women: the "Spinster" and the "Fallen woman"
- Married woman: mothers
- Widows
- Slavery: the "Patriarchal" institution
- The master-slave relationship: individual portraits of slaves
- The problem of class in Southern society and Southern literature
- Representations of poor whites
- The problem of the yeoman farmer.