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The word in black and white: reading "race" in American literature, 1638-1867 / Dana D. Nelson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nelson, Dana D., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--White authors--History and criticism.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature--1783-1850--History and criticism.
- United States--Intellectual life--18th century.
- United States.
- United States--Intellectual life--17th century.
- United States--Intellectual life--19th century.
- Minorities in literature.
- Race in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (208 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This study aims to describe the ways in which white American authors constructed ""race"" in their work from the time of the first colonists up to the period of the Civil War. The book focuses on a number of texts that deal with the relations among Indians, blacks and whites.
- Contents:
- Contents; 1. An Uncommon Need: ""Race"" in Early American Literature; 2. Economies of Morality and Power: Reading ""Race"" in Two Colonial Texts; 3. Romancing the Border: Bird, Cooper, Simms, and the Frontier Novel; 4. W/Righting History: Sympathy as Strategy in Hope Leslie and A Romance of the Republic; 5. Ethnocentrism Decentered: Colonial Motives in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym; 6. ""For the Gaze of the Whites"": The Crisis of the Subject in ""Benito Cereno""; 7. ""Read the Characters, Question the Motives"": Harriett Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; Notes
- BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1992.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772693-3
- 1-280-52528-2
- 0-19-536214-4
- 1-4294-0732-8
- OCLC:
- 476015484
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