The Myth of Aunt Jemima

White Women Representing Black Women

By: Diane Roberts

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Hardcover | 1 September 1994 | Edition Number 1

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240 Pages

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21.59 x 13.97 x 1.75

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"The Myth of Aunt Jemima" is a bold and incisive examination at the way three centuries of white women writers have represented "race" in both England and America. In this dynamic and eloquent study, Diane Roberts challenges the widely held belief that white women writers have simply appropriated the dominant cultural inscriptions of race.
Negotiating "Beloved, Gone with the Wind, Oroonoko, " as well as authors such as Frances Trollope, Frances Wright, Harriet Martineau and Frances Kemble, Roberts displays a masterly command over recent critical theory, deploying the work of Bakhtin in order to lay the foundation for a reading of the multiple inscriptions of race, gender, and sexuality. Moving deftly between popular cultural texts, such as the representation of "Aunt Jemima" and the historical representation of black women in white women's writing, Roberts brilliantly and trenchantly reads the co-articulation of racialist and anti-sexist discourses, at once always aware of and attentive to the subtle contradictions that mark the double inscription of race and gender. "The Myth of Aunt Jemima" is a brave and intelligent account of the history of white women's encounter with slavery and its aftermath. This text is bound to raise the temperature of debate within and outside of feminist theory.

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"impresses with its logic, thoroughness, and intellectual force. We come away with a far better understanding of how race as cultural and social markers have been complicated, supported, and undercut by white women writers.." -"American Literature "As commentary on the discourse of culture, the book adds a new angle to studies of the dynamics of identification, subjectivity, and desire.... the book is very well researched and its arguments are lucid and compelling.... My highest praise for Diane Robert's "The Myth "of Aunt Jemima: Representations of Race and Region is that it will be an excellent centerpiece for my newly designed graduate Women's STudies Course, "Gender and Representation....". Overall, Robert's book is an engaging commentary on objectification and control and the problems of gender and subjectivity.." -"Research in African Literatures "Roberts' analysis of the tangled relationship between recism and gender stereotyping is as much disheartening as enlightening. A hundred years after emancipation, and twenty five years after integration, we haven't learned a damn thing.." -"Southern Exposure

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