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

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 wo...

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Main Author: Tracy, Susan Jean, 1947-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1995.
Subjects:
1800-1899
American literature > Southern States > History and criticism.
Literature and society > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Women and literature > Southern States > History > 19th century.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
American literature > Male authors > History and criticism.
Working class whites in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Social classes in literature.
Patriarchy in literature.
Poor in literature.
Southern States > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Available via EBSCO eBook Collection
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