عنوان

Mammy :

(Number (ISBN

0472116142 (cloth : acid-free paper)

(Number (ISBN

9780472116140 (cloth : acid-free paper)

Number

b528803

Title Proper

Mammy :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a century of race, gender, and Southern memory /

First Statement of Responsibility

Kimberly Wallace-Sanders

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Ann Arbor :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Michigan Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c2008

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xvii, 184 p., [16] p. of plates :

Other Physical Details

ill. (some col.) ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-175) and index

Text of Note

The "mammification" of the nation : Mammy and the American imagination -- A love supreme : early characterizations of the mammy -- Bound in black and white : bloodlines, milk lines, and competition in the plantation nursery -- Dishing up Dixie : recycling the Old South -- Reconstructing Mammy at the turn of the century; or, Mark Twain meets Aunt Jemima -- Southern monuments, Southern memory, and the subversive mammy -- Blown away : Gone with the wind and The sound and the fury -- Mammy on my mind

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Text of Note

"Her cheerful smile and bright eyes gaze out from the covers of old cookbooks, song sheets, syrup bottles, salt and pepper shakers, and cookie jars, and she has long been a prominent figure in fiction, film, television, and folk art. She is Mammy, a figure whose provocative hold on the American psyche has persisted since before the Civil War." "But who is Mammy, and where did she come from? This book traces the mammy figure and what it has symbolized at various historical moments that are linked to phases in America's racial consciousness. The author shows how representations of Mammy have loomed over the American literary and cultural imagination, an influence so pervasive that only a comprehensive and integrated approach of this kind can do it justice." "The author also surveys the rich and previously unmined history of the responses of African American artists to the black mammy stereotype, including contemporary reframings by artists Betye Saar, Michael Ray Charles, and Joyce Scott." --Book Jacket

Jemima

African American women in literature

African American women in popular culture-- History-- 20th century

American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism

Racism in popular culture-- United States-- History-- 20th century

Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature

Women domestics in literature

Southern States, In literature

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Class number

Book number

Wallace-Sanders, Kimberly,1962-

Date of Transaction

20090512094251.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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