In the master's eye : representations of women, Blacks, and poor whites in antebellum Southern literature /
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 wo...
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Amherst, Mass. :
University of Massachusetts Press,
©1995
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