Uncle Tom : from martyr to traitor
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Uncle Tom : from martyr to traitor
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- Label
- Uncle Tom : from martyr to traitor
- Title remainder
- from martyr to traitor
- Statement of responsibility
- Adena Spingarn
- Subject
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- American literature -- Social aspects
- American literature -- Social aspects | History
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Ethnische Beziehungen
- History
- Literatur
- Literature -- Adaptations
- Race relations
- Racism
- Racism -- United States -- History
- Rezeption
- Sklave
- Stereotyp
- African Americans in literature
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature -- History
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 -- Adaptations | History and criticism
- USA
- Uncle Tom's cabin (Stowe, Harriet Beecher)
- Uncle Tom, (Fictitious character)
- Uncle Tom, (Fictitious character)
- United States
- United States -- Race relations | History
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature
- African Americans in literature -- History
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This book charts the cultural transformation of perhaps the most controversial literary character in American history. From his origins as the heroic, Christ-like protagonist of Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom has become an epithet for a black person deemed so subservient to whites that he betrays his race. Readers have long noted that Stowe's character is not the traitorous sycophant that his name connotes today. The author traces his evolution in the American imagination. We learn of the radical political potential of the novel's many theatrical spinoffs even in the Jim Crow era, Uncle Tom's breezy disavowal by prominent voices of the Harlem Renaissance, and a developing critique of "Uncle Tom roles" in Hollywood. Within the stubborn American binary of black and white, citizens have used this rhetorical figure to debate the boundaries of racial difference and the legacy of slavery. Through Uncle Tom, black Americans have disputed various strategies for racial progress and defined the most desirable and harmful images of black personhood in literature and popular culture
- Cataloging source
- CSt/DLC
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS2954.U6
- LC item number
- S67 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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