ISBN:
9781107338852
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (x, 320 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
Geschichte 1800-1900
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Geschichte 1821-1867
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Geschichte
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African Americans in popular culture / History / 19th century
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African American men / Public opinion / History / 19th century
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Women, White / United States / Attitudes / History / 19th century
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African American men in literature
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Slavery in literature
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Race in literature
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Masculinity in literature
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Popular culture / United States / History / 19th century
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Massenkultur
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Rassenfrage
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Literatur
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Geschlechterforschung
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USA
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United States / Race relations / History / 19th century
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United States / Intellectual life / 19th century
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USA
;
USA
;
Geschlechterforschung
;
Rassenfrage
;
Literatur
;
Massenkultur
;
Geschichte 1821-1867
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
"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
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781107338852
URL:
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URL:
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107338852
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