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Imitation Nation Red, White, and Blackface in Early and Antebellum US Literature / Jason Richards.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richards, Jason, 1968- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- Minorities in literature.
- Race in literature.
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- The book offers a new model for understanding the ways in which the nation's identity and literature took shape during the early phases of the American republic.
- Contents:
- Introduction: fail in originality, succeed in imitation
- The new republic's two frontiers: redface desire, European mimicry, and Edgar Huntly
- Localizing the early republic: Washington Irving and blackface culture
- Cooper's Anglo-Saxon masquerade: redface, whiteface, and the pioneers
- Blackface minstrelsy and the making of African American selfhood in Uncle Tom's cabin
- Melville's (inter)national burlesque: whiteface, blackface, and "Benito Cereno"
- Blackface violence and the early African American novel
- Epilogue: absorbing mimesis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813940656
- 0813940656
- OCLC:
- 1012400359
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