Transformable race : surprising metamorphoses in the literature of early America / Katy L. Chiles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chiles, Katy L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--18th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Race in literature.

Race awareness in literature.

Race relations in literature.

Human skin color in literature.

Black people--Race identity--United States--History--18th century.

Black people.

Indians of North America--Ethnic identity--History--18th century.

Indians of North America.

White people--Race identity--United States--History--18th century.

White people.

White people--Race identity.

History.

Indians of North America--Ethnic identity.

Black people--Race identity.

United States.

Physical Description:

xi, 315 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Contents:

Introduction: surprising metamorphoses

Becoming colored in Occom and Wheatley's early America

To make Samson Occom "so"

"To make a poet black"

The political bodies of Benjamin Franklin and Hendrick Aupaumut

You are what you eat; or, Franklin's practice makes (almost) perfect

Hendrick Aupaumut's own color

Transforming into natives: Crèvecoeur, Marrant, and Brown on becoming Indian

Passing as, transforming into Crèvecoeur's American race

John Marrant becoming Cherokee

Edgar Huntly's unsettling transformation

Doubting transformable race:

Equiano, Brackenridge, and the textuality of natural history

To quote and to question: Olaudah Equiano's provocative ends

Brackenridge and the limits of writing natural history

Epilogue: interiorizing racial metamorphosis:

The Algerine captive's language of sympathy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199313501

0199313504

OCLC:

853435852