Modern and postmodern narratives of race, gender, and identity
Subtitle: the descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
By: Yoriko Ishida.
Series: Modern American literature: new approaches -- v. 53
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433108754
Subjects: Hemings, Sally -- In literature; Jefferson, Thomas, -- 1743-1826 -- Relations with women; Hemings, Sally -- Family; American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; African American women in literature; Race relations in literature; Miscegenation in literature; Racially mixed people in literature; African Americans -- Race identity; United States -- Race relations -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: what is the Sally Hemings story?; title: Historical context of the Sally Hemings story: racial prejudice in the United States of America disclosed by the Jefferson-Hemings scandal; title: Figurations of the female body as gothic technique: race relations and gender conventions in Barbara Chase-Riboud's Sally Hemings; title: Pampered body, outraged flesh: the ambivalence of Sally Hemings in Barbara Chase-Riboud's Sally Hemings as a neo-slave narrative; title: Tradition of the tragic mulatta in the antebellum South: the Sally Hemings story and William Wells Brown's Clotel; or, the president's daughter; title: Miscegenation, passing, and the tragic mulatta in Barbara Chase-Riboud's The president's daughter: racial politics of the nineteenth century in the United States; title: Body and soul of Harriet Hemings as a Hemings woman: gender representation in Barbara Chase-Riboud's The president's daughter; title: Thomas (Hemings) Woodson in the Woodson family oral history: the bonds, pride, and identity of the Woodson family in Minnie Shumate Woodson's The sable curtain.