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BL
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706614
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b528803
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| Main Entry
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Wallace-Sanders, Kimberly,1962-
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| Title & Author
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Mammy : : a century of race, gender, and Southern memory /\ Kimberly Wallace-Sanders
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| Publication Statement
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Ann Arbor :: University of Michigan Press,, c2008
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xvii, 184 p., [16] p. of plates :: ill. (some col.) ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0472116142 (cloth : acid-free paper)
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: 9780472116140 (cloth : acid-free paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-175) and index
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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"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
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Jemima
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African American women in literature
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African American women in popular culture-- History-- 20th century
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American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism
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Racism in popular culture-- United States-- History-- 20th century
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Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature
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Women domestics in literature
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Southern States, In literature
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| LC Classification
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PS173.D65W35 2008
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