Table of Contents: Modern and postmodern narratives of race, gender, and identity

Main Author:	Ishida, Yoriko.
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Peter Lang, c2010.
Series:	Modern American literature, v. 53
Subjects:	Hemings, Sally > In literature. Jefferson, Thomas, > 1743-1826 > Relations with women. Hemings, Sally > Family. American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. African American women in literature. Race relations in literature. Miscegenation in literature. Racially mixed people in literature. African Americans > Race identity. United States > Race relations
Online Access:	http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10516875

Table of Contents:

Prologue: what is the Sally Hemings story?
Historical context of the Sally Hemings story: racial prejudice in the United States of America disclosed by the Jefferson-Hemings scandal
Figurations of the female body as gothic technique: race relations and gender conventions in Barbara Chase-Riboud's Sally Hemings
Pampered body, outraged flesh: the ambivalence of Sally Hemings in Barbara Chase-Riboud's Sally Hemings as a neo-slave narrative
Tradition of the tragic mulatta in the antebellum South: the Sally Hemings story and William Wells Brown's Clotel; or, The president's daughter
Miscegenation, passing, and the tragic mulatta in Barbara Chase-Riboud's The president's daughter: racial politics of the nineteenth century in the United States
Body and soul of Harriet Hemings as a Hemings woman: gender representation in Barbara Chase-Riboud's The president's daughter
Thomas (Hemings) Woodson in the Woodson family oral history: the bonds, pride, and identity of the Woodson family in Minnie Shumate Woodson's The sable curtain
Epilogue: with love and respect for Sally Hemings and her descendents.