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The Myth of Aunt Jemima is a bold and exciting look at the way three centuries of white women writers have tackled the subject of race in both Britain and America. Diane Roberts challenges the widely-held belief that white women writers have simply acquiesed in majority cultural inscriptions of race. The Myth of Aunt Jemima shows how 'the mythic spheres of race, of the separation of black and white into low and high, other and originary, tainted and pure, remain to trouble a society struggling still to free itself from debilitating racial representations.' Beautifully wri

Thematology --- American literature --- English literature --- Race in literature --- Women and literature --- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature --- African Americans in literature --- Regionalism in literature --- Blacks in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Stereotype (Psychology) in literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Women authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- White authors&delete& --- Women authors --- White authors --- Race in literature. --- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature. --- African Americans in literature. --- Regionalism in literature. --- Black people in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History.