The word in black and white : reading "race" in American literature, 1638-1867

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

Author/creator	Nelson, Dana D.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	New York : Oxford University Press, ©1992.
Description	xvi, 189 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 --History and criticism. American literature--White authors --History and criticism. American literature--19th century --History and criticism. American literature--1783-1850 --History and criticism. Minorities in literature. Race in literature.

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.
Local note	Little-282516
Local note	Little-282516
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-184) and index.
LCCN	91008513
ISBN	0195065921 (alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PS173.E8 N45 1992	✔ Available	Place Hold