The inadvertent epic
Subtitle: from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Roots
By: Leslie A. Fiedler ; with an introd. by Barrie Hayne.
Series: Massey lecture series ; 17th
Publisher: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 85
Subjects: American fiction -- History and criticism; Epic literature, American -- History and criticism; Popular literature -- United States -- History and criticism; African Americans in literature; Race relations in literature; Slavery in literature
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: vii; label: 1
pagenum: 13
title: Uncle Tom's Cabin: The Invisible Masterpiece; label: 2
pagenum: 29
title: Uncle Tom as White Mother; label: 3
pagenum: 43
title: The Anti-Tom Novel and the First Great War: Thomas Dixon Jr. and D.W. Griffith; label: 4
pagenum: 59
title: The Anti-Tom Novel and the Great Depression: Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind; label: 5
pagenum: 71
title: Anti-Anti-Tom Novels and the Decline of the American Empire: Alex Haley's Roots