{"product_id":"dancing-on-the-color-line-9781496804150","title":"Dancing on the Color Line","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cthe extensive influence of the creative traditions derived from slave culture particularly black folklore in work nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors such as ralph ellison toni morrison has become a hallmark african american scholarship. yet similar inquiries regarding white adopting aesthetic techniques have been largely overlooked.gretchen martin examines representative nineteenth-century works to explore black-authored narrated on well-known white-authored texts impact oral evident by subversive trickster figures john pendleton kennedy swallow barn harriet beecher stowe uncle tom cabin herman melville benito cereno joel chandler harris short stories well mark twain adventures huckleberry finn pudd wilson.as indicates show themselves be savvy observers many indeed wide r\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDancing on the Color Line\u003c\/i\u003e is a significant contribution to nineteenth-century American literary and cultural studies. Original, illuminating, and meticulously researched, Martin’s book examines texts of John Pendleton Kennedy, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Herman Melville, Joel Chandler Harris, and Mark Twain, showing how these writers assimilated and employed black aesthetic strategies of ‘signifying’ and ‘double voice’ associated with the trickster figure. Martin lays the groundwork for further scholarly inquiry, particularly regarding possible lines of influence of minority American writers on modern and postmodern canonical authors and their works.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e—Ed Piacentino, emeritus professor of English at High Point University and editor of \u003ci\u003eSouthern Frontier Humor: New Approaches\u003c\/i\u003e (University Press of Mississippi)\u003c\/p\u003e|\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDancing on the Color Line\u003c\/i\u003e explores the familiar world of nineteenth-century US writing about race to defamiliarize it by suggesting its hybrid nature. Through Martin’s careful readings, well-known figures emerge as deeply influenced by the aesthetics and techniques of African American storytelling, and their literature reveals multiple trickster figures who turn a critical eye on the white power that frames them. Martin’s readers encounter the fiction she discusses differently and with more attention to the complexity of the historical and literary context in which it was created.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e—Kathryn McKee, McMullan Associate Professor of Southern Studies and English at the University of Mississippi and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Cinema and the Southern Imaginary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e|\u003cp\u003e“Martin has proven to be one of our most important scholars in American humor and culture. Wherever she focuses her attention, and brings to bear her critical intelligence, new insights and useful ideas emerge. \u003ci\u003eDancing on the Color Line\u003c\/i\u003e is a thoughtful and enlightening study of the African American trickster figure. The result is a solid contribution to both African American studies and our understanding of the continuously complex nature of American humor.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e—M. Thomas Inge, Blackwell Professor of Humanities at Randolph-Macon College and author of many works on American humor, southern culture, comic art, and William Faulkner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/the\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040602784087,"sku":"9781496804150","price":65.08,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496804150.jpg?v=1750947245","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dancing-on-the-color-line-9781496804150","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}