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In the Master's Eye - Representations of Women, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Antebellum Southern Literature (Paperback)
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In the Master's Eye - Representations of Women, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Antebellum Southern Literature (Paperback)
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This book explores the way in which literature can be used to
reinforce social power. Through rigorous readings of a series of
antebellum plantation novels, Susan J. Tracy shows how the
narrative strategies employed by proslavery Southern writers served
to justify and perpetuate the oppression of women, blacks, and poor
whites. Tracy focuses on the historical romances of six authors:
George Tucker, James Ewell Heath, William Alexander Caruthers, John
Pendleton Kennedy, Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, and William Gilmore
Simms. Using variations on a recurring plot - in which a young
planter/hero rescues a planter's daughter from an "enemy" of her
class - each of these novelists reinforced an idealized vision of a
Southern civilization based on male superiority, white supremacy,
and class inequality. It is a world in which white men are
represented as the natural leaders of loyal and dependent women,
grateful and docile slaves, and inferior poor whites. According to
Tracy, the interweaving of these themes reveals the extent to which
the Southern defense of slavery in the years leading up to the
Civil War was an argument not only about race relations but about
gender and class relations as well.
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