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Nelson Dana D |
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Titolo |
The word in black and white : reading "race" in American literature, 1638-1867 / / Dana D. Nelson |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, c1992 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-772693-3 |
1-280-52528-2 |
0-19-536214-4 |
1-4294-0732-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford scholarship online |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - White authors - History and criticism |
American literature - 1783-1850 - History and criticism |
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
American literature - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - History and criticism |
Minorities in literature |
Race in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 1992. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-184) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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