{"id":47417,"date":"2016-06-08T00:51:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T00:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47417"},"modified":"2016-06-08T00:51:35","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T00:51:35","slug":"filling-in-gaps-in-the-historical-record-accuracy-authenticity-and-closure-in-ann-rinaldis-wolf-by-the-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47417","title":{"rendered":"Filling in Gaps in the Historical Record: Accuracy, Authenticity, and Closure in Ann Rinaldi\u2019s Wolf by the Ears"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filling in Gaps in the Historical Record: Accuracy, Authenticity, and Closure in Ann Rinaldi\u2019s <\/strong><\/em>Wolf by the Ears<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Children’s Literature<\/a>
\nVolume 44, 2016<\/a>
\npages 21-60
\nDOI: 10.1353\/chl.2016.0018<\/a><\/p>\n

Brian Dillon<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of English
\nMontana State University-Billings<\/em><\/p>\n

Ann Rinaldi, Wolf by the Ears<\/em><\/a>, (New York: Scholastic, 1993).<\/strong><\/p>\n

This novel, narrated by Thomas Jefferson<\/a> and Sally Hemings\u2019<\/a> daughter, includes four historical inaccuracies: they contribute to a pitiful view of the slave-owning president. Determining authenticity requires a more subjective interpretive response: the depiction of Harriet Hemings\u2019<\/a> life at Monticello<\/a> and her decision to leave and pass for white<\/a> does achieve a convincing degree of authenticity.<\/p>\n

Read or purchase the review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Filling in Gaps in the Historical Record: Accuracy, Authenticity, and Closure in Ann Rinaldi\u2019s Wolf by the Ears Children’s Literature Volume 44, 2016 pages 21-60 DOI: 10.1353\/chl.2016.0018 Brian Dillon, Professor of English Montana State University-Billings Ann Rinaldi, Wolf by the Ears, (New York: Scholastic, 1993). This novel, narrated by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings\u2019 daughter, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,5,8,6462,20],"tags":[24006,17446,24007],"class_list":["post-47417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-brian-dillon","tag-childrens-literature","tag-harriet-hemings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47418,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47417\/revisions\/47418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}