Mammy
Subtitle: a century of race, gender, and Southern memory
By: Kimberly Wallace-Sanders.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780472116140
Subjects: Jemima, -- Aunt; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Women domestics in literature; African American women in literature; Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature; African American women in popular culture -- History -- 20th century; Racism in popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Southern States -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-175) and index.
Table of contents: title: The "mammification" of the nation : Mammy and the American imagination; title: A love supreme : early characterizations of the mammy; title: Bound in black and white : bloodlines, milk lines, and competition in the plantation nursery; title: Dishing up Dixie : recycling the Old South; title: Reconstructing Mammy at the turn of the century; or, Mark Twain meets Aunt Jemima; title: Southern monuments, Southern memory, and the subversive mammy; title: Blown away : Gone with the wind and The sound and the fury; title: Mammy on my mind.