TY - BOOK AU - Ishida,Yoriko ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Modern and postmodern narratives of race, gender, and identity: the descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings T2 - Modern American literature, AV - PS153.N5 I75 2010eb U1 - 810.9/896073 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Peter Lang KW - Hemings, Sally KW - Jefferson, Thomas, KW - American literature KW - African American authors KW - History and criticism KW - African American women in literature KW - Race relations in literature KW - Miscegenation in literature KW - Racially mixed people in literature KW - African Americans KW - Race identity KW - United States KW - Race relations KW - History KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10516875 ER -