An edition of The inadvertent epic
(1979)
The inadvertent epic
from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Roots
by Leslie A. Fiedler
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The Inadvertent Epic is based on a five part radio broadcast of the 1978 Massey Lectures which were aired in October of that year as part of CBC's IDEAS series.
"I want to discuss the treatment of what seems to me now to be a kind of communal or co-operative prose epic, dealing with the war between the States, Reconstruction, and the Ku Klux Klan, as well as certain ethnic and sexual conflicts in America which helped motivate those political events and were in turn exacerbated by them."
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African Americans in literature, American Epic literature, American fiction, History and criticism, Popular literature, Race relations in literature, Slavery in literature, Uncle Tom (Fictitious character), Slavery in the United States in literature, American literature, history and criticismPlaces
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The inadvertent epic: from Uncle Tom's cabin to Roots
1982, Simon and Schuster
in English
0671253727 9780671253721
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The inadvertent epic: from Uncle Tom's cabin to Roots
1979, Simon and Schuster
in English
0671253719 9780671253714
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The inadvertent epic: from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Roots
1979, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
in English
0887940854 9780887940859
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Uncle Tom's Cabin: The Invisible Masterpiece
2. Uncle Tom as White Mother
3. The Anti-Tom Novel and the First Great War: Thomas Dixon Jr. and D.W. Griffith
4. The Anti-Tom Novel and the Great Depression: Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind
5. Anti-Anti-Tom Novels and the Decline of the American Empire: Alex Haley's Roots
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| April 1, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | Imported from Scriblio MARC record |