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Messy beginnings : postcoloniality and early American studies / edited by Malini Johar Schueller, Edward Watts.

Van Pelt Library E188.5 .M39 2003
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Schueller, Malini Johar, 1957-
Watts, Edward, 1964-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Postcolonialism--United States.
Postcolonialism.
Imperialism--History.
Imperialism.
History.
Colonization.
Historiography.
Social conditions.
United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Historiography.
United States.
United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Study and teaching.
United States--Social conditions--To 1865--Historiography.
America--Colonization.
America.
America--Colonization--Historiography.
Physical Description:
vii, 267 pages ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2003]
Contents:
Introduction: Theorizing Early American Studies and Postcoloniality / Malini Johar Schueller, Edward Watts 1
Part I Puritan Imperialisms and Postcolonial Resistance
Making a Joyful Noise: William Apess and the Search for Postcolonial Method(ism) / Laura Donaldson 29
Seeing with Ezekeil's Eyes: Indian "Resurrection" in Transatlantic Colonial Writings / Kristina Bross 45
Casualties of the Rod: Rebelling Children, Disciplining Indians, and the Critique of Colonial Authority in Puritan New England / Anna Mae Duane 63
Part II Intraracial Colonialisms
"If Indians Can Have Treaties, Why Cannot We Have One Too?": The Whiskey Rebellion and the Colonization of the West / Edward Watts 81
Colonial Planter to American Farmer: South, Nation, and Decolonization in Crevecoeur / Jennifer Rae Greeson 103
Hawthorne's Desert: "Wakefield" and the Imagination of Colonial Space / Geoffrey Sanborn 121
Part III Race, Gender, and Nation Making
The Periphery Within: Internal Colonialism and the Rhetoric of U.S. Nation Building / Michelle Burnham 139
Nation, Missionary Women, and the Race of True Womanhood / Malini Johar Schueller 155
Brigands and Nuns: The Vernacular Sociology of Collectivity after the Haitian Revolution / Michael Drexler 175
Part IV Transnational Nationalisms
Turning Identity Upside Down: Benjamin Franklin's Antipodean Cosmopolitanism / Jim Egan 203
"The Science of Lying" / David S. Shields 223
Colonization, Black Freemasonry, and the Rehabilitation of Africa / Joanna Brooks 237.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-253) and index.
ISBN:
0813532329
0813532337
OCLC:
50422843

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