reading "race" in American literature, 1638-1867 /
Dana D. Nelson.
New York :
Oxford University Press,
1992.
1 online resource (xvi, 189 pages)
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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American literature-- 1783-1850-- History and criticism.
American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
American literature-- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775-- History and criticism.
American literature-- White authors-- History and criticism.