Джой Джордан-Лейк — новинки

Никогда Керри не вернулась бы из Нью-Йорка домой, в горную провинцию, и тем более не пошла бы работать в поместье Билтмор, к одному из богатейших людей Америки, Джорджу Вандербильту. Но обстоятельства оказались сильнее, пришлось им подчиниться.

Так Керри оказывается меж двух миров: впечатляющей роскоши и сокрушительной бедности, что притаилась в темных переулках города.

К тому же очень скоро в ненавистном городке начинают происходитьт очень странные, жуткие события: кто-то убивает приезжего репортера и распространяет листовки с угрожающими призывами. Теперь жизнь Керри, ее любовь, будущее ее семьи зависят от ее силы духа и… умения плести интриги.

Никогда Керри не вернулась бы из Нью-Йорка домой, в горную провинцию, и тем более не пошла бы работать в поместье Билтмор, к одному из богатейших людей Америки, Джорджу Вандербильту. Но обстоятельства оказались сильнее, пришлось им подчиниться. Так Керри оказывается меж двух миров: впечатляющей роскоши и сокрушительной бедности, что притаилась в темных переулках города. К тому же очень скоро в ненавистном городке начинают происходитьт очень странные, жуткие события: кто-то убивает приезжего репортера и распространяет листовки с угрожающими призывами. Теперь жизнь Керри, ее любовь, будущее ее семьи зависят от ее силы духа и… умения…

In a time when cross burnings and men in white hoods appeared to be a thing of the past, a small town confronts a kind of hate it thought had long since died out….

Shelby Lenoir Maynard, nicknamed Turtle, has never much trusted girls her own age, spending her days instead with her brother and his pack of friends. But when a mysterious Sri Lankan girl of Moorish descent moves to town, Turtle invites her to their secret haven: the Blue Hole. Turtle could not have imagined how much that simple gesture would alter the rest of her life, or the lives of those she loves. As tensions rise, it becomes clear there are those in Pisgah Ridge who reject the presence of anyone different—and those who would welcome the new refugee family. In just one summer—in a collision of love, hate, jealousy, beauty and a muddy swimming hole—everything changes.

In a time when cross burnings and men in white hoods appeared to be a thing of the past, a small town confronts a kind of hate it thought had long since died out…

Shelby Lenoir Maynard, nicknamed Turtle, has never much trusted girls her own age, spending her days instead with her brother and his pack of friends. But when a mysterious Sri Lankan girl of Moorish descent moves to town, Turtle invites her to their secret haven: the Blue Hole. Turtle could not have imagined how much that simple gesture would alter the rest of her life, or the lives of those she loves...

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Few books have had more impact on U.S. history than Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. The first American novel to sell more than a million copies, it provoked an entire reading public to extol it, debate it, weep over it, excoriate it. Fighting fire with fire, slavery apologists from North and South responded with their own fiction, producing over three dozen novels in direct response to Stowe's work. Interestingly, a key portion of that fiction was written by women. In Whitewashing Uncle Tom's Cabin, Joy Jordan-Lake examines those women-authored novels to produce compelling insights into both antebellum American culture and a proslavery ideology rife with internal tensions. Jordan-Lake begins by considering the male plantation literary tradition and then demonstrates how white women novelists of the anti-Uncle Tom school adopted characteristics from sentimental fiction, emulating Stowe's own strategies more than those of their male allies. Like Stowe, these women writers tried to appeal to maternal sensibilities and offered motherhood as a means of redemption for an admittedly fallen society. But contrary to their intent, Jordan-Lake shows, their works succumb to evasions, displacements, and contradictions that disrupt their surface narratives and reveal even their most noble women characters as mere pawns in a patriarchal game in which white society's pursuit and maintenance of wealth are made to appear humane, even holy. Ultimately, these texts dismantie themselves to expose a profit-driven chattel slavery as savage as any envisioned by Stowe. Including a discussion of twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels that revisit plantation mythology, Whitewashing Uncle Tom's Cabin casts new light on the ethical and moral disaster of securing one group's economic strength at the expense of other groups' access to dignity, compassion, and justice.