Whitewashing Uncle Tom's cabin

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.

subjects: African Americans in literature,  American fiction,  History,  History and criticism,  In literature,  Intellectual life,  Intellectual life.,  Plantation life in literature,  Slavery in literature,  Slaves in literature,  White Women,  White authors,  Women and literature,  Women authors,  Stowe, harriet beecher, 1811-1896,  American fiction, women authors,  American fiction, history and criticism,  United states, history, 19th century,  American fiction, history and criticism, 19th century,  United states, intellectual life

People: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

Places: Southern States,  United States

Times: 19th century