The Myth of Aunt Jemima: White Women Representing Black Women

by Diane Roberts

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The Myth of Aunt Jemima is a bold and exciting look at the way three centuries of white women writers have tackled the subject of race in both Britain and America. Diane Roberts challenges the widely-held belief that white women writers have simply acquiesed in majority cultural inscriptions of race. The Myth of Aunt Jemima shows how 'the mythic spheres of race, of the separation of black and white into low and high, other and originary, tainted and...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0415049199

ISBN13:9780415049191

Release Date:September 1994

Publisher:Routledge

Length:240 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

American Literature Classics Criticism & Theory English Literature History & Criticism Language Arts Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Movements & Periods

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