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Slavery & Race in American Popular Culture

William L. Van Deburg

出版	University of Wisconsin Press, 1984
主題	Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / GeneralHistory / United States / GeneralSocial Science / Popular Culture
ISBN	02990963009780299096304
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Al7_dGwPxwwC&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Spanning more than three centuries, from the colonial era to the present, Van Deburg's overview analyzes the works of American historians, dramatists, novelists, poets, lyricists, and filmmakers -- and exposes, through those artists' often disquieting perceptions, the cultural underpinnings of American current racial attitudes and divisions. Crucial to Van Deburg's analysis is his contrast of black and white attitudes toward the Afro-American slave experience. There has, in fact, been a persistent dichotomy between the two races' literary, historical, and theatrical representations of slavery. If white culture-makers have stressed the "unmanning" of the slaves and encouraged such steteotypes as the Noble Savage and the comic minstrel to justify the blacks' subordination, Afro-Americans have emphasized a counter self-image that celebrates the slaves' creativity, dignity, pride, and assertiveness. ISBN 0-299-09634-3 (pbk.) : $12.50.