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In the master's eye : representations of women, Blacks, and poor whites in antebellum Southern literature Cover Image Book Book

In the master's eye : representations of women, Blacks, and poor whites in antebellum Southern literature

Tracy, Susan Jean 1947- (Author).

Summary: This book explores the way in which literature can be used to reinforce social power. Through rigorous readings of a series of antebellum plantation novels, Susan J. Tracy shows how the narrative strategies employed by proslavery Southern writers served to justify and perpetuate the oppression of women, blacks, and poor whites.

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  • ISBN: 0870239686
  • ISBN: 9780870239687
  • Physical Description: print
    ix, 307 p. ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1995.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-296) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 1. The Antebellum South -- 2. The Production of Southern Literature -- 3. The Form of Southern Literature -- 4. The Genesis of the "Plantation Novel" -- 5. Representing Southern Women's Lives -- 6. Unmarried Women: The "Belle," Passive Sufferer versus Spirited Woman -- 7. Unmarried Women: The "Spinster" and the "Fallen Woman" -- 8. Married Woman: Mothers -- 9. Widows -- 10. Slavery: The "Patriarchal" Institution -- 11. The Master-Slave Relationship: Individual Portraits of Slaves -- 12. The Problem of Class in Southern Society and Southern Literature -- 13. Representations of Poor Whites -- 14. The Problem of the Yeoman Farmer.

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