Whitewashing Uncle Tom's cabin : nineteenth-century women novelists respond to Stowe /
How women novelists tried to counter Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic indictment of slavery - by preaching a "theology of whiteness" from the pages of their books.
| Основен автор: | Jordan-Lake, Joy, 1963- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Nashville, Tenn. :
Vanderbilt University Press,
2005.
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| Издание: | 1st ed. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=187608 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Whitewashing Uncle Tom's cabin. |
Съдържание:
- In the beginning, a photograph
- Introduction: the personal become the project
- 1. "To woman ... I say depart!" ; The plantation literary tradition, the emergent anti-uncle Tom novel, and gender
- 2. Sanctified by wealth and whiteness ; Mother-saviors
- and not
- in the urban North
- 3. Justified by mother's milk ; Mammies and mistress figures in proslavery fiction's plantation south
- 4. The background that belies the myth ; The historical record that helps explain the preponderance of nonslaveholding proslavery women authors
- 5. Mothering the other; othering the mother ; An African American woman novelist battles slavery and Uncle Tom
- 6. Still playing with fire ; Perpetuation and refutation of the plantation romance in twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels by women.