Modern and postmodern narratives of race, gender, and identity the descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings /

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Hlavní autor: Ishida, Yoriko
Korporativní autor: ebrary, Inc
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: New York : Peter Lang, c2010.
Edice:Modern American literature (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 53.
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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.