Whitewashing Uncle Tom's Cabin: Nineteenth-Century Women Novelists Respond to Stowe

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.

Binding Type: Library Binding
Author: Jordan-Lake, Joy
Published: 11/07/2005
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826514752
Pages: 204
Weight: 2.03lbs
Size: 9.32h x 6.30w x 0.81d