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HEADACHE, WOMEN'S health, and UNITED States

The article presents the literary criticism of the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It outlines the character Marie St. Clare and her painful headaches and women's health in U.S. Topics include the sickness caused by poorly designed houses, poor diets, improper clothing, general inactivity and domestic life in nineteenth century; interest of author in women's work inside the home & in the larger civic arena; and also mention the book "The American Woman's Home."

IMPERSONATION, RACE in the theater, THEATER, PERFORMING arts, and CHINA

This article historicizes the methods Chinese actors have used to embody the foreign characters in adaptations of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. It roots the discussion in Ouyang Yuqian's Heinu hen (Regret of a Black Slave 黑奴恨, 1959), arguing that the incidents of racial impersonation in Chinese adaptations of Uncle Tom's Cabin are best understood not in comparison to other, intentionally racist incidents of blackface in world drama, but rather in relation to other histories of performing identity within Chinese theatrical traditions. In examining the manner in which Chinese actors performed as black and white Americans, men and women, as well as enslaved people and enslavers, I frame impersonation as a politically fluid performance tactic—neither inherently progressive nor conservative. Instead, an analysis of the impersonation of race, gender, and class introduces ethical questions about how Chinese performances of ethnic others may reflect an interest in the self as well as the subjects being portrayed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Slave narratives and Postmodernism (Literature)

Postmodernism has as its major tenet the eradication of master-narratives in favor of marginalized voices. In so doing, it puts forward various strategies which, though different in methodology, are all critical of the dominant exclusionary discourses. Parodic mimicry is one of these subversive strategies which allows the anti-establishment artist to employ the discriminatory discursive practices and skillfully turn them on their heads. African American novelist Ishmael Reed adopts the postmodern technique of mimicry to severely criticize and disrupt the racist structure of the United States. In his "resistant" slave narrative Flight to Canada (1976), he takes to task the traditional historiography, showing how a so-called antislavery novel like Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin employs racial essentialism to reinforce the stereotypical representations of blacks and distort history to the benefit of white dominators. Through a parody of Stowe's canonical work, Reed's novel provides a space for the black consciousness to serve as an agentic subject and re-narrate the history of slavery, abolitionism and the Civil War. This paper aims to depict how Reed manages to rewrite the history of slavery in Flight to Canada by mimicking Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

CHILDREN of authors

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics including author Harriet Beecher Stowe's impact upon Orr Island in Maine, the role of spinster aunts in the fiction of writer Louisa May Alcott, and the education of American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson's daughter Ellen.

PAINTING -- Social aspects, RECONSTRUCTION (U.S. history, 1865-1877), ABOLITIONISTS -- United States, and NINETEENTH century

The article talks about author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe's canvases of Florida oranges, stating her artistic activism demonstrate how the canvas held broader implications for Reconstruction in Florida. Topics discussed include the bestselling novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Stowe that brought her renown as an ambassador for the American abolitionist movement.