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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784080503321

Autore

Roberts Diane <1959, >

Titolo

The myth of Aunt Jemima : representations of race and region / / Diane Roberts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1994

ISBN

1-134-94496-9

1-134-94497-7

0-203-35919-4

0-203-37595-5

1-280-02564-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Disciplina

305.48896

820.9/9287

Soggetti

English literature - Women authors - History and criticism

Race in literature

American literature - Women authors - History and criticism

American literature - White authors - History and criticism

Women and literature - Great Britain - History

Women and literature - United States - History

Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature

African Americans in literature

Regionalism in literature

Black people in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 UNCLE TOM'S CABIN; 2 "INSTIGATED BY THE DEVIL"; 3 MISS WRIGHT, MRS TROLLOPE AND MISS MARTINEAU; 4 THE STRANGE CAREER OF FANNY KEMBLE; 5 OLLA PODRIDA AMERICA; 6 JEMIMA AND JEZEBEL IN THE NEW SOUTH; EPILOGUE; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The Myth of Aunt Jemima is a bold and exciting look at the way three



centuries of white women writers have tackled the subject of race in both Britain and America. Diane Roberts challenges the widely-held belief that white women writers have simply acquiesed in majority cultural inscriptions of race. The Myth of Aunt Jemima shows how 'the mythic spheres of race, of the separation of black and white into low and high, other and originary, tainted and pure, remain to trouble a society struggling still to free itself from debilitating racial representations.' Beautifully wri