{"product_id":"dancing-on-the-color-line-gretchen-martin-9781496814746","title":"Dancing on the Color Line: African American Tricksters in Nineteenth-Century American Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe extensive influence of the creative traditions derived from slave culture, particularly black folklore, in the work of nineteenth- and twentieth-century black authors, such as Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison, has become a hallmark of African American scholarship. Yet similar inquiries regarding white authors adopting black aesthetic techniques have been largely overlooked.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGretchen Martin examines representative nineteenth-century works to explore the influence of black-authored (or narrated) works on well-known white-authored texts, particularly the impact of black oral culture evident by subversive trickster figures in John Pendleton Kennedy�s \u003cem\u003eSwallow Barn\u003c\/em\u003e, Harriet Beecher Stowe�s \u003cem\u003eUncle Tom�s Cabin\u003c\/em\u003e, Herman Melville�s \u003cem\u003eBenito Cereno\u003c\/em\u003e, Joel Chandler Harris�s short stories, as well as Mark Twain�s \u003cem\u003eAdventures of Huckleberry Finn\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePudd�nhead Wilson\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Martin indicates, such white authors show themselves to be savvy observers of the many trickster traditions and indeed a wide range of texts suggest stylistic and aesthetic influences representative of the artistry, subversive wisdom, and subtle humor in these black figures of ridicule, resistance, and repudiation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe black characters created by these white authors are often dismissed as little more than limited, demeaning stereotypes of the minstrel tradition, yet by teasing out important distinctions between the wisdom and humor signified by trickery rather than minstrelsy, Martin probes an overlooked aspect of the nineteenth-century American literary canon and reveals the extensive influence of black aesthetics on some of the most highly regarded work by white American authors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gretchen Martin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496814746\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496814746\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/28\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d","brand":"Gretchen Martin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43936382681343,"sku":"9781496814746","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_d80bc604-ead9-4317-ae0f-9e7698f120db.jpg?v=1681425228","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dancing-on-the-color-line-gretchen-martin-9781496814746","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}