The Deconstruction of American White Womanhood: A Transhistorical Textual Examination

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Abstract/Contents

Abstract: This multi-textual transhistorical character-driven analysis considers how the representation of American white women in popular cultural texts has shifted over time. It examines Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Native Son by Richard Wright, and Get Out by Jordan Peele.

Type of resource	text
Date created	June 2020

Author	Garden, Jenna
Primary advisor	Jones, Gavin
Advisor	Richardson, Judith
Degree granting institution	Stanford University, Department of English

Subject	white womanhood
Subject	cultural studies
Subject	Jordan Peele
Subject	Get Out
Subject	Richard Wright
Subject	Native Son
Subject	Harriet Beecher Stowe
Subject	Uncle Tom's Cabin
Subject	Stowe
Subject	Wright
Subject	Peele
Subject	whiteness
Subject	critical race theory
Subject	racialization
Subject	post-racialism
Subject	whiteness
Subject	African American literature
Genre	Thesis

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/nj572mg0155

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Preferred Citation: Garden, Jenna and Jones, Gavin. (2020). . Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/nj572mg0155

Stanford University, Department of English, Undergraduate Honors Theses

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