Whitewashing Uncle Tom's cabin : nineteenth-century women novelists respond to Stowe
- Title
- Whitewashing Uncle Tom's cabin : nineteenth-century women novelists respond to Stowe / Joy Jordan-Lake.
- Published by
- Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, 2005.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xxvi, 204 pages : portrait; 23 cm
- Subject
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
- American fiction > History and criticism
- Slavery in literature
- Women and literature > United States > History > 19th century
- American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
- Women, White > United States > Intellectual life
- Plantation life in literature
- Southern States > In literature
- Contents
- Preface : in the beginning, a photograph -- Introduction : the personal becomes 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.
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-195) and index.