Modern and postmodern narratives of race, gender, and identity the descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings /
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| Format: | Electrònic eBook |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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New York :
Peter Lang,
c2010.
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| Col·lecció: | Modern American literature (New York, N.Y.) ;
v. 53. |
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| Accés en línia: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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- Prologue: what is the Sally Hemings story?
- Historical context of the Sally Hemings story: racial prejudice in the United States of America disclosed by the Jefferson-Hemings scandal
- Figurations of the female body as gothic technique: race relations and gender conventions in Barbara Chase-Riboud's Sally Hemings
- Pampered body, outraged flesh: the ambivalence of Sally Hemings in Barbara Chase-Riboud's Sally Hemings as a neo-slave narrative
- Tradition of the tragic mulatta in the antebellum South: the Sally Hemings story and William Wells Brown's Clotel; or, The president's daughter
- 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
- Body and soul of Harriet Hemings as a Hemings woman: gender representation in Barbara Chase-Riboud's The president's daughter
- 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
- Epilogue: with love and respect for Sally Hemings and her descendents.