Gender and race in antebellum popular culture / Sarah N. Roth.
2014
E185.625 .R68 2014eb
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Title
Gender and race in antebellum popular culture / Sarah N. Roth.
ISBN
9781316004333 (electronic bk.)
1316004333 (electronic bk.)
9781107338852 (electronic bk.)
1107338859 (electronic bk.)
9781316008836
1316008835
9781107043688
1107043689
9781107618909
1107618908
1316004333 (electronic bk.)
9781107338852 (electronic bk.)
1107338859 (electronic bk.)
9781316008836
1316008835
9781107043688
1107043689
9781107618909
1107618908
Published
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
E185.625 .R68 2014eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)885208733
Summary
"In the decades leading to the Civil War, popular conceptions of African American men shifted dramatically. The savage slave featured in 1830s' novels and stories gave way by the 1850s to the less-threatening humble Black martyr. This radical reshaping of Black masculinity in American culture occurred at the same time that the reading and writing of popular narratives were emerging as largely feminine enterprises. In a society where women wielded little official power, white female authors exalted white femininity, using narrative forms such as autobiographies, novels, short stories, visual images, and plays, by stressing differences that made white women appear superior to male slaves. This book argues that white women, as creators and consumers of popular culture media, played a pivotal role in the demasculinization of Black men during the antebellum period, and consequently had a vital impact on the political landscape of antebellum and Civil War-era America through their powerful influence on popular culture"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
"The Old Child and the Young One" : The Infantilization of Male Slaves in 1820s Juvenile Literature
"More Terrible Than the Uncaged Hyena" : The Savage Slave in 1830s Fiction
"How a Slave Was Made a Man" : Manly Self-Defense in 1840s Slave Narratives
"Patient Sufferer, Gentle Martyr" : The Self-Sacrificial Uncle Tom
Impotent Rebels, Heroes, and Martyrs : Anti-Uncle Tom Novels of the 1850s
"An Intrepid, Dauntless Heroine" : The Displacement of Black Men in 1850s Octoroon Novels
"We Have Struck for Our Freedom" : The Black Revolutionary in 1850s Radical Abolitionist Fiction
"Victory!" : The Soldier-Martyr in Civil War Fiction
Epilogue.
"More Terrible Than the Uncaged Hyena" : The Savage Slave in 1830s Fiction
"How a Slave Was Made a Man" : Manly Self-Defense in 1840s Slave Narratives
"Patient Sufferer, Gentle Martyr" : The Self-Sacrificial Uncle Tom
Impotent Rebels, Heroes, and Martyrs : Anti-Uncle Tom Novels of the 1850s
"An Intrepid, Dauntless Heroine" : The Displacement of Black Men in 1850s Octoroon Novels
"We Have Struck for Our Freedom" : The Black Revolutionary in 1850s Radical Abolitionist Fiction
"Victory!" : The Soldier-Martyr in Civil War Fiction
Epilogue.
Source of Description
Print version record.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Roth, Sarah N. (Sarah Nelson), 1972- Gender and race in antebellum popular culture
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