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Minority reports : identity and social knowledge in nineteenth-century American literature
Through close readings of texts by African American and women authors, Minority Reports offers a theoretical defense of the use of identity categories in American studies by examining how early American literature not only responds to the social stratification of the nineteenth century but also challenges modern historical conceptions of this era.
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Face Value: Ambivalent Citizenship in \Iola Leroy\
Approving early critics suggested that the book's apparent celebration of white bourgeois values signals a successful (and desirable) cultural assimilation, a perspective reconfigured in modern analyses of the novel that view black adoption of such ideologies as inherently subversive within the cultural context of the nineteenth century. In this respect, the book seems less a roadmap for the future of the race than it does an examination of the processes by which such roadmaps are created-offering an analysis whose social and cultural repercussions require not only a reevaluation of Harper's relationship to hegemonic ideologies, but also a reassessment of our contemporary paradigms for minority identity and their attendant political concerns.
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Passing over: Setting the Record Straight in \Uncle Tom's Cabin\
This essay considers one of the most underexamined characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's \"Uncle Tom's Cabin\": Augustine St. Clare's effeminate manservant, Adolph. I evaluate Adolph's critical elision to illustrate how the success of critiques centered on race and gender unintentionally permits other minority identities (and stereotypes) in the book to continue unremarked. While revisionist readings of Stowe's novel complicate racial and gender stereotypes, they nevertheless accept stable (even conventional) categories to describe minority identity. Such formulations foreclose the possibility of seeing other minority identities in the book that intertwine race and gender in ways different from normative standards. In examining Adolph's character, this essay considers how intersectional analysis reveals important representations of social difference-including differences not always acknowledged in present-day culture.
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