Uncle Tom's cabins : the transnational history of America's most mutable book / edited by Tracy C. Davis and Stefka Mihaylova.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davis, Tracy C., 1960- editor.

Mihaylova, Stefka (Stefka Marburger), editor.

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896. Uncle Tom's cabin.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896--Influence.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.

Slavery in literature.

African Americans in literature.

Race in literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 pages) : illustrations, 2 tables

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, [2018]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"As Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin traveled around the world, it was molded by the imaginations and needs of international audiences. For over 150 years it has been coopted for a dazzling array of causes far from what its author envisioned. This book tells thirteen variants of Uncle Tom's journey, explicating the novel's significance for Canadian abolitionists and the Liberian political elite that constituted the runaway characters' landing points; nineteenth-century French theatergoers; liberal Cuban, Romanian, and Spanish intellectuals and social reformers; Dutch colonizers and Filipino nationalists in Southeast Asia; Eastern European Cold War communists; Muslim readers and spectators in the Middle East; Brazilian television audiences; and twentieth-century German holidaymakers. Throughout these encounters, Stowe's story of American slavery serves as a paradigm for understanding oppression, selectively and strategically refracting the African American slave onto other iconic victims and freedom fighters. The book brings together performance historians, literary critics, and media theorists to demonstrate how the myriad cultural and political effects of Stowe's enduring story has transformed it into a global metanarrative with national, regional, and local specificity"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Tracy C. Davis and Stefka Mihaylova. I. Destination Points. Oh, Canaan! Following the North Star to Canada / Tracy C. Davis

"I Go to Liberia": Following Uncle Tom's Cabin to Africa / Marcy J. Dinius. II. Freedom's Pathways. Eliza's French Fathers: Race, Gender, and Transatlantic Paternalism in French Stage Adaptations of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1853 / Emily Sahakian

Representing the Slave Trader: Haley and the Slave Ship; or, Spain's Uncle Tom's Cabin / Lisa Surwillo

The Bonds of Translation: A Cuban Encounter with Uncle Tom's Cabin / Kahlil Chaar-Pérez

"Black and White Are One": Anti-Amalgamation Laws, Roma Slaves, and the Romanian Nation on the Mid-nineteenth-century Moldavian Stage / Ioana Szeman

"Schwarze Sklaven, Weisse Sklaven": The German Reception of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin / Heike Paul. III. Recirculating Currents. From Abolition to Blackface: The Vicissitudes of Uncle Tom in Brazil / César Braga-Pinto

Medializing Race: Uncle Tom's Cabin in Colonial Southeast Asia / meLeÌ, yamomo

The Divided Poland: Religion, Race, and the Cold War Politics in the Rozmaito'ci Theater's Production of Uncle Tom's Cabin in Kraków in 1961 / Katarzyna Jakubiak

Raising Proper Citizens: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Sentimental Education of Bulgarian Children during the Soviet Era / Stefka Mihaylova

Harriet Beecher, from Beirut to Tehran: Raising the Cabin in the Middle East / Jeffrey Einboden

Staging Uncle Tom's Cabin in Tehran / Debra J. Rosenthal.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472123568

0472123564

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.