An edition of The inadvertent epic (1979)

The inadvertent epic

from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Roots

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An edition of The inadvertent epic (1979)

The inadvertent epic

from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Roots

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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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Language
English
Pages
85

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Cover of: The inadvertent epic
The inadvertent epic: from Uncle Tom's cabin to Roots
1982, Simon and Schuster
in English
Cover of: The inadvertent epic
The inadvertent epic: from Uncle Tom's cabin to Roots
1979, Simon and Schuster
in English
Cover of: The inadvertent epic
The inadvertent epic: from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Roots
1979, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
in English

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Table of Contents

Introduction Page vii
1. Uncle Tom's Cabin: The Invisible Masterpiece Page 13
2. Uncle Tom as White Mother Page 29
3. The Anti-Tom Novel and the First Great War: Thomas Dixon Jr. and D.W. Griffith Page 43
4. The Anti-Tom Novel and the Great Depression: Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind Page 59
5. Anti-Anti-Tom Novels and the Decline of the American Empire: Alex Haley's Roots Page 71

Edition Notes

Published in
Toronto
Series
Massey lecture series ; 17th

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.009
Library of Congress
PS371 .F54 1979

The Physical Object

Pagination
85 p. ;
Number of pages
85

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4493049M
ISBN 10
0887940854
LCCN
79323042
OCLC/WorldCat
5734880
Library Thing
3032218
Goodreads
482294

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April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user Imported from Scriblio MARC record