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04118aam a2200553 i 4500 001 04069CF26B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 150706s2015 msu b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2015019118 020 $a 1496804155 020 $a 9781496804150 035 $a (OCoLC)908374875 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d BDX $d YDXCP $d OCLCF $d CDX $d COO $d PUL $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS217.B55 M37 2015 082 00 $a 810.9/352996073 $2 23 084 $a SOC011000 $a SOC011000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Martin, Gretchen, $d 1966- $e author. 245 10 $a Dancing on the color line : $b African American tricksters in nineteenth-century American literature / $c Gretchen Martin. 264 1 $a Jackson : $b University Press of Mississippi, $c [2015] 300 $a x, 197 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "The extensive influence of the creative traditions derived from slave culture, particularly black folklore, in the work of nineteenth- and twentieth-century black authors, such as Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison, has become a hallmark of African American scholarship. Yet similar inquiries regarding white authors adopting black aesthetic techniques have been largely overlooked. Gretchen Martin examines representative nineteenth-century works to explore the influence of black-authored (or narrated) works on well-known white-authored texts, particularly the impact of black oral culture evident by subversive trickster figures in John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow Barn, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Herman Melville's Benito Cereno, Joel Chandler Harris's short stories, as well as Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Pudd'nhead Wilson. As Martin indicates, such white authors show themselves to be savvy observers of the many trickster traditions and indeed a wide range of texts suggest stylistic and aesthetic influences representative of the artistry, subversive wisdom, and subtle humor in these black figures of ridicule, resistance, and repudiation. The black characters created by these white authors are often dismissed as little more than limited, demeaning stereotypes of the minstrel tradition, yet by teasing out important distinctions between the wisdom and humor signified by trickery rather than minstrelsy, Martin probes an overlooked aspect of the nineteenth-century American literary canon and reveals the extensive influence of black aesthetics on some of the most highly regarded work by white American authors"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 650 0 $a American literature $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a African Americans in literature. 650 0 $a African American arts $x Influence. 650 0 $a Tricksters in literature. 650 0 $a African Americans $v Folklore $x History. 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a African American arts $x Influence. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799022 650 7 $a African Americans. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799558 650 7 $a African Americans in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799727 650 7 $a American literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807113 650 7 $a Tricksters in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01156646 648 7 $a 1800 - 1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a Folklore. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423784 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Martin, Gretchen, 1966- $t Dancing on the color line $d Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015] $z 9781496804167 $w (DLC) 2015027386 856 42 $3 Cover image $u http://www.netread.com/jcusers/1343/3049167/image/lgcover.9781496804150.jpg 941 $a 3 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214014030.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180102052646.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826044057.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=04069CF26B5411E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search