Whitewashing Uncle Tom's Cabin

Joy Jordan-Lake

Description

Joy Jordan-Lake examines the ways in which antebellum women novelists tried to counter Harriet Beecher Stoweís enormously popular Uncle Tom's Cabin by preaching a ìtheology of whitenessî from within the pages of the books - but were ultimately undermined by their own proslavery agendas. Including a discussion of twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels that revisit plantation mythology, Whitewashing Uncle Tom's Cabin casts new light on the ethical and moral disaster of securing one groupís economic strength at the expense of other groupsí access to dignity, compassion, and justice.

Sujets

• Literary Criticism
• Literature
• American

Informations

• Publié par: Vanderbilt University Press
• Date de parution: 07 novembre 2005
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780826591890
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Whitewashing  W U NCLE T OM ’ S C ABIN NineteenthCentury Women Novelists hitewashin Respond to Stowe

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Joy JordanLake

W HITEWASHING U NCLE T OM ’ S C ABIN Nîneteenth-Century Women Novelîsts Respond to Stowe

Whitewashing U NCLE T OM ’ S C ABIN NineteenthCentury Women Novelists Respond to Stowe

Jô Jôà-àé

vàé Ûéŝ éŝŝ àŝé

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ŝ ôô ŝ é ô àç-éé àé. àûàçûé  é Ûé Śàéŝ ô Āéçà à ô Çôéŝŝ Çààô--ûçàô àà

Jôà-àé, Jô, 9– Wéàŝ Ûçé ô’ŝ çà: ééé-çéû ôé ôéŝŝ éŝô ô Śôé / Jô Jôà-àé.—  ŝ é.  . ç. ïçûéŝ ôàçà éééçéŝ à éX. ïŚ 0-8-7-8 (çô : à. àé) ïŚ 0-8-7- (. : à. àé)  . Āéçà îçô—Wôé àûôŝ—ŝô à ççŝ. . Śàé  éàûé. . Wôé à éàûé—Ûé Śàéŝ—ŝô—9 çéû. . Śôé, àé ééçé, 8–89. Ûçé ô’ŝ çà. . Āéçà îçô—Wé àûôŝ—ŝô à ççŝ. . Āéçà îçô—9 çéû—ŝ- ô à ççŝ. 7. Wôé, Wé—Ûé Śàéŝ— ïééçûà é. 8. Śôûé Śàéŝ—ï éàûé. 9. Āçà Āéçàŝ  éàûé. 0. ààô é  éàûé. . Śàéŝ  éàûé. ï. é. Ś7.Ś8J7 00 8’.09—ç 0009

For my famîly, who asked questîons as îf they were genuînely înterested, who cheered me on through many a mîdnîght march, and who pulled together to make thîs possîble.

And especîally for my son, Justîn, who was born în the mîdst of thîs book’s creatîon and who napped many an hour în my lap at the computer.

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Preface In the Begînnîng, a Photograph

Introduction The Personal Becomes the Project

“To Woman . . . I Say Depart!” é ààô éà àô, é Ééé Ā–Ûçé ô ôé, à Géé

Sanctîied by Wealth and Whîteness ôé-Śàôŝ—à ô— é Ûà ô

Justîied by Mother’s Mîlk àéŝ à ŝéŝŝ ûéŝ  ôŝàé çô’ŝ ààô Śôû

The Background that Belîes the Myth é ŝôçà éçô à éŝ ÉXà é éôéàçé ô ôŝàéô ôŝàé Wôé Āûôŝ

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Motherîng the Other, Otherîng the Mother Ā Āçà Āéçà Wôà ôéŝ àéŝ ŚàéandÛçé ô

Stîll Playîng wîth Fîre ééûàô à éûàô ô é ààô ôàçé  éé- à é-ŝ-Çéû ôéŝ  Wôé

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ĀcknowLedgments

ŝ ôô éà é, qûé à é éàŝ àô à  à çôŝéà é- Û T éŝ, Ézàé Āôŝ, ôŝé ŝçôàŝ à ŝôçà àçŝ ï ŝàûé. é ô, àŝ à ŝŝéàô à éé ôû àé àôûé ô à ôé à à éà ô ûŝé àé à  ô éé ô  àŝô à ûŝ ï é ŝ ô éàç, éôçà ô é Éà ô ô Çàôà à é ô éXàŝ, à à  ŝéçô ç, ï àŝ éXàûŝé, ŝôàzé, à éŝéàé ô é ôé  ôçôà ô. û ôé à ôé àà, z éàé éé, ééé, ôé ôà —à à éàŝ éàé ô é é ï ôà ôû àé àŝŝé ô é àŝ ôô éôû, ŝé ŝŝé ô ŝôé ôé.  Éà ô   àûàé ŝçôô éûçàô, Çàô  éûŝàŝçà éçôûàé  à ô é àôû éàûé  éàô ô ŝŝûéŝ ô ô- é à ŝôçà jûŝçé, é Jô é àçé ŝûôé  çôôà éŝ éôô à éûà ŝûé  àôX  àçéŝ é ôû  é éû.  ï à éé ô à ôôôé  Ézàé ôX-Géôéŝé’ŝWîthîn the Plantatîon Householdà ôà ôé é é ô ŝ éŝéàç  çà é ûŝàô à ŝô é ŝû à éé ôé ô é àééû îçô ô Śôûé ôé.  é éà ôà ŝàŝ à Wàé Ûéŝ  ô Çàôà à àô Ûéŝ  éXàŝ ûŝ àé çôçé ôéé é é ŝéçûé ôŝçûé àééû éXŝ ô à ôé é çôû, à ï à àéû.  ééŝà Gôû’ŝ çŝé éà ô à éà à ô ŝ ôô ôé ô é éôôûŝ éû à ŝé  à Çàé .