(cont.) Representation of ethnicity among colonial Pennsylvania Germans / William T. Parsons -- Cosmopolitanism and the Anglo-Jewish elite in British America / David S. Shields -- Ethnic humor in early American jest books / Robert Secor -- The gratification of that corrupt and lawless passion: Character types and themes in early New England rape narratives / Daniel Williams -- Phillis Wheatley and the Black American Revolution / Betsy Erkkila -- The heritage of American ethnicity in Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer / Doreen Alvarez Saar -- Thomas Jefferson: Race, culture, and the failure of anthropological method / Frank Shuffelton.
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Economies of morality and power: Reading "race" in two colonial contexts / Dana D. Nelson -- "So unstable and like mad men they were": Language and interpretation in American captivity narratives / David R. Sewell -- John William's captivity narrative: A consideration of normative ethnicity / Rosalie Murphy Baum -- The American Indian as humorist in colonial literature / Luise van Keuren -- Red, white, and black: Indian captivities, colonial printers, and the early African-American narrative / John Sekora -- Recapturing John Marrant / Benilde Montgomery.
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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.
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Title
Mixed race.
International Standard Book Number
0195075234
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
American literature-- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775-- History and criticism.
American literature-- Minority authors-- History and criticism.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Ethnic relations in literature.
Ethnicity-- United States-- History-- 17th century.
Ethnicity-- United States-- History-- 18th century.