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Like One of the Family : Domestic Workers, Race, and In/Visibility in The Help.
Kathryn Stockett's 2009 best-selling novel The Help and its subsequent 2011 film center on the experiences of African-American domestic workers living in Jackson, Mississippi. Stockett's sanitized portrayal of life in the Deep South where black women were charged with rearing white childre...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Domestic Workers, Children, and Neglect; Every Child Left Behind; Shortchanged by the Care Economy; The Invisibility of Shame; Part II: Lost in Translation-Talking Black, Writing White; "You is kind, you is smart, you is important"; Contemporary Consumption of the False Friendship and Tainted Testimony of Kathryn Stockett's The Help; Part III: Film as Racial Spectacle; Segregation as Southern Anomaly; Missing Children; Finding Voice and Resistance in Kathryn Stockett's The Help and Ousmane Sembène's Black Girl.
- Part IV: The Laboring Black Body and Domestic RelationshipsIn Service to Whom? Reading Race and Work in The Help and Candy; The Sexless Servant is the Safer Servant; Dirty South; Contributors; Index.