03088nam a2200469 a 4500 ebr10516875 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 090917s2010 nyu sb 001 0 eng d 2009036728 9781433108754 (hardcover alk. paper) 1433108755 (hardcover alk. paper) 9781453901137 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)774287320 n-us--- PS153.N5 I75 2010eb 810.9/896073 22 Ishida, Yoriko. Modern and postmodern narratives of race, gender, and identity [electronic resource] : the descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings / Yoriko Ishida. New York : Peter Lang, c2010. viii, 269 p. Modern American literature, 1078-0521 ; 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2012. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 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. local ebrary, Inc. Modern American literature (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 53. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10516875 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 224443 224443