Gender and race in antebellum popular culture /

Gender and race in antebellum popular culture /

In the decades leading to the Civil War, popular conceptions of African American men shifted dramatically. The savage slave featured in 1830s novels and stories gave way by the 1850s to the less-threatening humble Black martyr. This radical reshaping of Black masculinity in American culture occurred...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roth, Sarah N. (Sarah Nelson), 1972- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
African Americans in popular culture > History > 19th century.
African American men > Public opinion > History > 19th century.
Women, White > United States > Attitudes > History > 19th century.
African American men in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Race in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Popular culture > United States > History > 19th century.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
United States > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • "The Old Child and the Young One" : The Infantilization of Male Slaves in 1820s Juvenile Literature
  • "More Terrible Than the Uncaged Hyena" : The Savage Slave in 1830s Fiction
  • "How a Slave Was Made a Man" : Manly Self-Defense in 1840s Slave Narratives
  • "Patient Sufferer, Gentle Martyr" : The Self-Sacrificial Uncle Tom
  • Impotent Rebels, Heroes, and Martyrs : Anti-Uncle Tom Novels of the 1850s
  • "An Intrepid, Dauntless Heroine" : The Displacement of Black Men in 1850s Octoroon Novels
  • "We Have Struck for Our Freedom" : The Black Revolutionary in 1850s Radical Abolitionist Fiction
  • "Victory!" : The Soldier-Martyr in Civil War Fiction
  • Epilogue.