Adena Spingarn

Uncle Tom

From Martyr to Traitor

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book tells the story of how Uncle Tom, the Christ-like protagonist of Uncle Tom's Cabin, became a racial epithet and why Americans have been invoking this controversial figure for more than 160 years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 151mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781503630628
• ISBN-10: 1503630625
• Artikelnr.: 61993573

Autorenporträt

Adena Spingarn is a writer and scholar of American cultural history who has taught literature at Stanford University and Harvard University. She is currently working on a book on racial censorship in American movies from the silent era to the 1960s.

Inhaltsangabe

1. A Manly Hero
2. Uncle Tom on the American Stage
3. Uncle Tom and Jim Crow
4. Writing the Old Negro
5. Uncle Toms and New Negroes
6. Writing Off Uncle Tom