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Author:

Wallace-Sanders, Kimberly, 1962-

Title:

Mammy : a century of race, gender, and Southern memory / Kimberly Wallace-Sanders.

Publisher:

University of Michigan Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xvii, 184 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Women domestics in literature.
African American women in literature.
Southern States--In literature.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
African American women in popular culture--History--20th century.
Racism in popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
Jemima,--Aunt.

Notes:

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

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

0472116142 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780472116140 (cloth : acid-free paper)

LCCN:

2007052486

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)