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Dreaming black/writing white : the Hagar myth in American cultural history / Janet Gabler-Hover.
Van Pelt Library PS374.H27 G33 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gabler-Hover, Janet.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte, 1819-1899.
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Hagar (Biblical figure)--In literature.
- Hagar.
- Hagar (Biblical figure).
- American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction--Women authors.
- American fiction--White authors--History and criticism.
- Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte, 1819-1899--Criticism and interpretation.
- Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte.
- Stephens, H. Marion (Harriet Marion), 1823-1858. Hagar the martyr.
- Stephens, H. Marion.
- Hopkins, Pauline E. (Pauline Elizabeth). Hagar's daughter.
- Hopkins, Pauline E.
- Clay, Charles M., 1829-1895. Modern Hagar.
- Clay, Charles M.
- Women, Black, in literature.
- Race in literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- American fiction--White authors.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2000]
- Summary:
- The biblical figure Hagar, who bore Abraham's son at the behest of Sarah, was widely understood by nineteenth-century Americans to be African. And yet in numerous novels and paintings of the day, she was depicted as white.
- All of these novels violate a cardinal rule of the mid-nineteenth-century domestic novel: the heroine must be chaste. They are more actively feminist than the typical women's novel. Through the persona of Hagar, women novelists felt free to create ethnically ambiguous heroines.
- Contents:
- 1. Hagar and John Audubon: American Hybridity 1
- 2. Hagar: The Nineteenth-Century Myth 25
- 3. The Resurrected South: Hagar in Southworth's The Deserted Wife 38
- 4. Hagar's Demise in Southworth: Virginia and Magdalene 55
- 5. The Scandal of Race: Stephens's Hagar the Martyr 76
- 6. Hagar Splitting: Clark's Modern Hagar 95
- 7. Prodigal Daughters: Hopkins's Hagar's Daughter and Black Female Identity 122.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [180]-189) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813121434
- OCLC:
- 41176680
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