Mammy : a century of race, gender, and Southern memory

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

Author/creator	Wallace-Sanders, Kimberly, 1962-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2008.
Description	xvii, 184 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Publisher description
Subject(s)	Jemima, Aunt. American literature--20th century --History and criticism. Women domestics in literature. African American women 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. Southern States--In literature.

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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-175) and index.
LCCN	2007052486
ISBN	9780472116140 (cloth : acid-free paper)
ISBN	0472116142 (cloth : acid-free paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PS173.D65 W35 2008	✔ Available	Place Hold