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

By: Publication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.Description: xvi, 189 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0195065921
  • 9780195065923
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 810.9/355 20
LOC classification:
  • PS173.E8 N45 1992
Other classification:
  • 810.9355
  • 18.06
  • HR 1704
  • HR 1702
  • HS 1691
  • HS 1121
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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Books Academic Resource Center at Levitt General Stacks (LOWER Level) PS 173 .E8 N45 1992 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 127282

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-184) and index.

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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