The Word in Black and White: Reading "Race" in American Literature, 1638-1867Oxford University Press, 2. jan. 1992 - 208 strani Dana Nelson provides a study of the ways in which Anglo-American authors constructed "race" in their works from the time of the first British colonists through the period of the Civil War. She focuses on some eleven texts, ranging from widely-known to little-considered, that deal with the relations among Native, African, and Anglo-Americans, and places her readings in the historical, social, and material contexts of an evolving U.S. colonialism and internal imperialism. Nelson shows how a novel such as The Last of the Mohicans sought to reify the Anglo historical past and simultaneously suggested strategies that would serve Anglo-Americans against Native Americans as the frontier pushed farther west. Concluding her work with a reading of Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Nelson shows how that text undercuts the racist structures of the pre-Civil War period by positing a revised model of sympathy that authorizes alternative cultural perspectives and requires Anglo-Americans to question their own involvement with racism. |
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Race in Early American Literature | 3 |
Reading Race in Two Colonial Texts | 22 |
Bird Cooper Simms and the Frontier Novel | 38 |
Sympathy as Strategy in Hope Leslie and A Romance of the Republic | 65 |
Colonial Motives in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym | 90 |
The Crisis of the Subject in Benito Cereno | 109 |
Harriett Jacobss Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl | 131 |
Notes | 147 |
Bibliography | 169 |
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The Word in Black and White: Reading "race" in American Literature, 1638-1867 Dana D. Nelson Omejen predogled - 1992 |
The Word in Black and White: Reading "race" in American Literature, 1638-1867 Dana D. Nelson Omejen predogled - 1994 |
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