MEETING AT THE THRESHOLD: SLAVERY’S INFLUENCE ON HOSPITALITY AND BLACK PERSONHOOD IN LATE-ANTEBELLUM AMERICAN LITERATURE
In my dissertation, I argue that both white and black authors of the late-1850s and early-1860s used scenes of race-centered hospitality in their narratives to combat the pervasive stereotypes of black inferiority that flourished under the influence of chattel slavery. The wide-spread scenes of hosp...
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UKnowledge
2018
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| Online Access: | https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/83 https://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1111&context=english_etds |