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The word in black and white, reading "race" in American literature, 1638-1867, Dana D. Nelson

Label
The word in black and white, reading "race" in American literature, 1638-1867, Dana D. Nelson
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-184) and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The word in black and white
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
23211181
Responsibility statement
Dana D. Nelson
Sub title
reading "race" in American literature, 1638-1867
Table Of Contents
Uncommon need : "race" in early American literature -- Economies of morality and power : reading "race" in two colonial texts -- Romancing the border : Bird, Cooper, Simms, and the frontier novel -- W/Righting history : sympathy as strategy in Hope Leslie and A Romance of the republic -- Ethnocentrism decentered : colonial motives in The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym -- "For the gaze of the whites" : the crisis of the subject in "Benito Cereno" -- "Read the characters, question the motives" : Harriett Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl
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