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Uncle Tom's Cabins
Tracy C. Davis
Stefka Mihaylova
其他書名
The Transnational History of America's Most Mutable Book
出版
University of Michigan Press
, 2020-04-20
主題
Performing Arts / General
Literary Criticism / American / African American & Black
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
Art / Performance
ISBN
0472037765
9780472037766
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=F2DaDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.