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    Recontevetivg Womonhooct The Wonan) Nove W'sT toy: Haze LV, Carby (NY? OxFord Univers ty Press, 1987) Slave and Mistress Ideologies of Womanhood under Slavery “The inetition of avery is now widely regarded asthe source of stereoypes about he back woman, andi s therefore important to oncentat, nally on the antebellum period inthe United Stater in order to explore the implications ofthis assertion Catherine Clinton, a feminist historian, has argued in The Plantation Misress ‘hat "woman iin par, cultural ection,” and tis ths cultural ‘eatin, te mythical aspect of the requisites of womsnioed, that ‘il examine inthe context ofthe cultural and polities! power of xual ieolopies under slavery In order o perceive the cultural tffeetsity of ideologies of Hack female sexuality. itis necessary to Consider the determining fore of Weoogis of white feral oxtal- lig serotypes only appear to exist i isolation white aewally ‘depending ona enus of iguraions whic can be explained only in elation to each othe, Therefore, | wil deans and analy idole fies of white Southern womanhood, as far as they influence oF $hape ideologies of black womanhood, and will argo that wo very Sifferent ut interdependent codes of sexuality operated in the fntebellum South, producing oppoing definitions of motherhood find womanhood fr white and black women which coalesce inthe figures ofthe slave andthe mistress i also necessary Yo state arvatives by black women within the dominant discoure of white female sexuality inorder to be able to comprehend and analyze the ways in which black women, 3b ‘writer, addressed, uted, transformed, and, on ocasion, subverted 0 enuargancs of THe AFrO~ American) TY the dominant ideological codes. I wil define the dynamics ofthe ‘most popular soca convention of feral sexuality, te “cul of tue ‘womanfiood,” and assess inluene onthe literary convention® that produced the heroine of the tentimental nove, Finally, the cultural and politcal inflvence ofthe est of tr womanhood will be shown to permeate the representations of Back women n aol: Toit lerature, ja general and mae save narratives, in partic In his book The Slave Communi, historian John Blasingame ‘nas argued that In many instances, itorias have ben mised by anasrng only 096 ray serene Tessa of sey wea othe at the slave are examined, This & all Ihe more necessary because the Blasingame recognized that “the portcit of the slave which ‘emeages from antebelom Southern Meratire complex and con tradtoy He chared a dialectical lationship between the sme ‘taneous existence of two male slave stereotypes, a rebellions and potentially murderous "Nat" and a pasive, contented "Sambo, bt Blassingame didnot pace thee two stereotypes within the ‘whole network of figurations forming a complex metaphorical ‘stem that fenctioned as an dzologieal explanation ofthe teil relations ofthe South. While acknowiedging that an analyse of one inae slave stereotype will not allow access to an undestanding of the mythology of the “OW! South” Basingame accepted that a

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