Whitewashing Uncle Tom's cabin
Subtitle: nineteenth-century women novelists respond to Stowe
By: Joy Jordan-Lake.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Nashville, Tenn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896; American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Slavery in literature; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century; American fiction -- White authors -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Women, White -- United States -- Intellectual life; African Americans in literature; Plantation life in literature; Slaves in literature; Southern States -- In literature
Description: "Joy Jordan-Lake examines the ways in which antebellum women novelists tried to counter Harriet Beecher Stowe's enormously popular Uncle Tom's Cabin by preaching a 'theology of whiteness' 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 group's economic strength at the expense of other groups' access to dignity, compassion, and justice." -- Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.