Review: Clare Oberon Garcia, Vershawn Ashanti Young, and Charise Pimentel (Eds.). From Uncle Tom’s Cabin to The Help: Critical Perspectives on White-Authored Narratives of Black Life, reviewed by Edward Santos Garza

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Review: Clare Oberon Garcia, Vershawn Ashanti Young, and Charise Pimentel (Eds.). From Uncle Tom’s Cabin to The Help: Critical Perspectives on White-Authored Narratives of Black Life, reviewed by Edward Santos Garza

Abstract

This collection sets out to subvert the unexamined, mainstream praise of works such as The Blind Side, Kathryn Stockett’s The Help (which eight of the text’s fifteen chapters focus on), and older, more traditionally canonical pieces. In limiting their scope to white-authored narratives, Garcia, Young, and Pimentel promote distinctly racialized frames of reading familiar works,… Continue reading Review: Clare Oberon Garcia, Vershawn Ashanti Young, and Charise Pimentel (Eds.). From Uncle Tom’s Cabin to The Help: Critical Perspectives on White-Authored Narratives of Black Life, reviewed by Edward Santos Garza

Journal: Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric
Published: 2019-06-25
Topics: multilingual writers

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