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Modern and postmodern narratives of race, gender, and identity

by Ishida, Yoriko.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Series: Modern American literature, 1078-0521 ; . v. 53 Published by : Peter Lang, (New York :) Physical details: viii, 269 p.
Subject(s): 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. | Electronic books.
Year: 2010
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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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2012. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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