Uncle Tom
From Martyr to Traitor
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 c…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5036-0609-8
- EAN: 9781503606098
- Produktnummer: 27054505
- Verlag: Stanford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 24'165 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Adena Spingarn is Lecturer in English at Stanford University.
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