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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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Nashville, Tenn. :
Vanderbilt University Press,
2005.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.