portada Uncle Tom: From Martyr to Traitor (en Inglés)

Uncle Tom: From Martyr to Traitor (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Adena Spingarn

Prefacio de

Henry Louis Gates

Editorial

Stanford University Press

Año

2018

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

272

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.1x16x3 cm

Peso

0.57 kg.

ISBN13

9780804799157

N° edición

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Relativo a los afroamericanos
Biografía: general
Literatura: historia y crítica
Estudios étnicos

Uncle Tom: From Martyr to Traitor (en Inglés)

Adena Spingarn (Autor) · Henry Louis Gates (Prefacio de) · Stanford University Press · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "Uncle Tom: From Martyr to Traitor (en Inglés)"

Uncle Tom charts the dramatic 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, the best-selling book of the nineteenth century after the Bible, Uncle Tom has become a widely recognized 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. Adena Spingarn traces his evolution in the American imagination, offering the first comprehensive account of a figure central to American conversations about race and racial representation from 1852 to the present. 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.