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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wallace-Sanders, Kimberly, 1962-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2008]
Subjects:	American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Women employees in literature. African American women in literature. Southern States > 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. Jemima, > Aunt.
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Table of 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.