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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Ishida, Yoriko
Titre(s) : Modern and postmodern narratives of race, gender, and identity [Texte imprimé] : the descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings / Yoriko Ishida
Publication : New York : P. Lang, c2010
Description matérielle : viii, 269 p. ; 24 cm
Collection : Modern American literature : new approaches ; vol. 53
Lien à la collection : Modern American literature
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-253) and index
The alleged affair between Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States,
and his slave Sally Hemings was proven as a fact by DNA analysis in 1998. While many
historians continue to deny the affair, some have accepted the love affair between
Jefferson and Hemings as fact, and many historical omissions regarding the affair
have been revised since the 1998 DNA results. However, the identity and the dignity
of the Hemings family, which were previously ignored in the official history, have
been restored not only by science but also by literature. This book examines how African
American writers have depicted the issues of race, gender, and identity for Sally
Hemings and her descendants in modern and postmodern novels. -- Back cover
Sujet(s) : Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826) -- Femmes
Hemings, Sally (1773-1835) -- Famille
Relations interethniques -- Dans la littérature
Métissage -- Dans la littérature
Noirs américains -- Identité collective
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781433108754 (hardcover) (alk. paper). - ISBN 1433108755 (hardcover) (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42765472c
Notice n° :
FRBNF42765472
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