Ishida, Yoriko.

Modern and postmodern narratives of race, gender, and identity the descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings / [electronic resource] : Yoriko Ishida. - New York : Peter Lang, c2010. - viii, 269 p. - Modern American literature, v. 53 1078-0521 ; . - Modern American literature (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 53. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


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2012.
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Hemings, Sally--In literature.
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 --Relations with women.
Hemings, Sally--Family.


American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
African American women in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Miscegenation in literature.
Racially mixed people in literature.
African Americans--Race identity.


United States--Race relations--History.


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