From Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Help: Critical Perspectives on White-Authored Narratives of Black Life [Hardcover]

This book surveys the cultural, literary, and cinematic impact of white-authored films and imaginative literature on American society from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin to Kathryn Stockett's Th e Hel p .Introduction: What's at Stake When White Writes Black?; Claire Oberon Garcia, Vershawn Ashanti Young, Charise Pimentel 1. Bearing Witness?: The Problem with the White Cross-Racial (Mis)Portrayals of History; Luminita Dragulescu 2. 'Must the Novelist Ask Permission?': Authority and Authenticity of the Black Voice in the works of Eudora Welty and Kathryn Stockett's The Help ; Ebony Lumumba 3. 'Blackness as Medium: Envisioning White Southern Womanhood in Eudora Welty's 'A Worn Path' and Delta Wedding and Kathryn Stockett's The Help ; Elizabeth J. West 4. 'Taking care a white babies, that's what I do': The Help and Americans' Obsession with the Mammy; Katrina Thompson 5. 'When folks is real friends, there ain't no such thing as place': Feminist Sisterhood and the Politics of Social Hierarchy in The Help; Shana Russell 6. Black Girlhood and The Help : Constructing Black Girlhood in a 'Post' -Racial, -Gender and Welfare State; Julia S. Jordan-Zachery 7. Second (and Third, and Fourth&) Helpings: Black Women, Size, and Spectacle in The Help ; Mecca Jamilah Sullivan 8. Mae Mallory and 'The Southern Belle Fantasy Trope' at The Cuyahoga County Jail 21st and Payne PAIN.; Paula Marie Seniors 9. 'Bleeping Mark Twain?': Censorship, Huckleberry Finn , and the Functions of Literature; Robert T. Tally, Jr. 10. White Lies & Black Consequences: Margaret Jones and the Complex Dynamics of the Publishing Industry; Josephine Metcalf 11. 'A Secondhand Kind of Terror': Grace Hasell, Kathryn Stockett, and the Ironies of Empathy; Alsiha Gaines 12. 'Saviour' Good Mother, Jezebel, Tom, Trickster: The Blind Side Myth; Pearlie Strother-Adams 13. Blindsided by Racism: A Critical Analysis of The Blind Side; Charise Pimentel and Sarah Sant?llanes 14. Django Ul3&