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