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: Paperback
Author: Jordan-Lake, Joy
Published: 11/07/2005
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826514769
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.12w x 0.60d