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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Modern and Postmodern Narratives of Race, Gender, and Identity; The Descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

Modern and Postmodern Narratives of Race, Gender, and Identity; The Descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

Ishida, Yoriko

Hardcover

Series: Modern American Literature, Book 53

English as a Second LanguageLiterary Criticism19th Century United States History

ISBN10: 1433108755
ISBN13: 9781433108754
Publisher: Peter Lang Us
Published: Feb 9 2010
Pages: 270
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The alleged affair between Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, and his slave Sally Hemings was proven as a fact by DNA analysis in 1998. While many historians continue to deny the affair, some have accepted the love affair between Jefferson and Hemings as fact, and many historical omissions regarding the affair have been revised since the 1998 DNA results. However, the identity and the dignity of the Hemings family, which were previously ignored in the official history, have been restored not only by science but also by literature. This book examines how African American writers have depicted the issues of race, gender, and identity for Sally Hemings and her descendants in modern and postmodern novels.

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