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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458556603321

Titolo

A Mixed race [[electronic resource] ] : ethnicity in early America / / edited by Frank Shuffelton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993

ISBN

1-280-44239-5

1-4237-6473-0

0-19-536056-7

1-60129-883-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ShuffeltonFrank <1940->

Disciplina

810.9/920693

Soggetti

American literature - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - History and criticism

American literature - Minority authors - History and criticism

Ethnicity - United States - History - 17th century

Ethnicity - United States - History - 18th century

Ethnic relations in literature

Ethnic groups in literature

Ethnology in literature

Ethnicity in literature

Electronic books.

United States Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""I: Questions of Race and Ethnicity""; ""1. Economies of Morality and Power: Reading ""Race"" in Two Colonial Contexts""; ""2. ""So Unstable and Like Mad Men They Were"": Language and Interpretation in American Captivity Narratives""; ""3. John Williams's Captivity Narrative: A Consideration of Normative Ethnicity""; ""4. The American Indian as Humorist in Colonial Literature""; ""5. Red, White, and Black: Indian Captivities, Colonial Printers, and the Early African-American Narrative""; ""6. Recapturing John Marrant""



""13. Thomas Jefferson: Race, Culture, and the Failure of Anthropological Method""""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Sommario/riassunto

Focusing on the 18th century and colonial American values, this collection of essays explores the subject of ethnicity in the USA. Moving from questions of race and ethnicity to varieties of ethnic representation, it sheds light on the confrontations of ethnically different peoples.