Title Whitewashing Uncle Tom's cabin : nineteenth-century women novelists respond to Stowe / Joy Jordan-Lake.

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Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, 2005.

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Edition	1st ed.
Description	1 online resource (xxvi, 204 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-195) and index.
Contents	In the beginning, a photograph -- Introduction: the personal become the project -- 1. "To woman ... I say depart!" ; The plantation literary tradition, the emergent anti-uncle Tom novel, and gender -- 2. Sanctified by wealth and whiteness ; Mother-saviors--and not-- in the urban North -- 3. Justified by mother's milk ; Mammies and mistress figures in proslavery fiction's plantation south -- 4. The background that belies the myth ; The historical record that helps explain the preponderance of nonslaveholding proslavery women authors -- 5. Mothering the other; othering the mother ; An African American woman novelist battles slavery and Uncle Tom -- 6. Still playing with fire ; Perpetuation and refutation of the plantation romance in twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels by women.
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Summary	How women novelists tried to counter Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic indictment of slavery - by preaching a "theology of whiteness" from the pages of their books.
Subject	Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. Uncle Tom's cabin.
	Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.
	American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
	Slavery in literature.
	Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	American fiction -- White authors -- History and criticism.
	American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	Women, White -- United States -- Intellectual life.
	Southern States -- In literature.
	African Americans in literature.
	Plantation life in literature.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
	Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly (Stowe)
	Receptie.
	Slavernij.
Other Form:	Print version: Jordan-Lake, Joy, 1963- Whitewashing Uncle Tom's cabin. 1st ed. Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, 2005 9780826514752 (DLC) 2004021923 (OCoLC)56591274
ISBN	9780826591890 (electronic bk.)
	0826591892 (electronic bk.)

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