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Relationships between masculinities: Controversy in The herd of the uncle Tom Relations among Masculinities: Control in Uncle Toms Cabin

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The American novel Uncle Toms Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher-Stowe, has caused a historical discussion of its notion of male between white men and African-American slaves in the antebellum period. The description of these two antagonist forces are said to be defined by the author on extreme foundations of sentimentalist and Romantic racism which seem to Distort the real objective events related to avoiding in America. Beecher-Stowe was Condemned by both white and black races of the complaint she makes of slavery as a hegemonic male institution. This article examines this polemic in Uncle O’s cabin, based on the socio-logist R.W. Connell’s theory of relations among masculinities. From this theory, the article argues that while whites’ masculinity is determined by a sense of power based on hegemony, complicity, and subordination, Blacks’, represented by Uncle Tom, is portrayed as adopting weak submission and re-signed marginalisation. As Uncle Toms Cabin is the inspiration of a storical reality, this article also studies the novel in relation to factual events in which the Ideals of hegemonic masculinity housed slavery as a powerful institution in America.The Tom uncle’s herd, written by Beecher-Stowe, has caused historical debate due to its notion of massculinity between white man and African man during the period of slavery. The author is said to describe these two antagonistic forces with extreme fundamentals of sentimentalism and racial Roma, which seem to distort the real facts related to slavery in the United States. Both breeds condemned the novelty for denying slavery as a hegemonically male institution. This article examines such a controversy in The herd of the uncle Tom, in the light of the theory proposed by the sociologist R.W. Connell on relationships between masculinities. On that basis, this article argues that while white masculinity is defined by a sense of power based on hegemony, complicity and subordination, the African one, represented by the uncle Tom, is characterised by a silent, weak and reluctant attitude to marginalisation. Because the uncle Tom herd is inspired by historical reality, the article also analyses the novelty in relation to real events, in which the ideals of hegemonic masculinity made slavery a powerful institution in the United States.

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