Executing race : early American women's narratives of race, society, and the law

Executing race : early American women's narratives of race, society, and the law / Sharon M. Harris.

Author/creator	Harris, Sharon M.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2005.
Description	x, 240 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subject(s)	American prose literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 --History and criticism. American prose literature--Women authors --History and criticism. Literature and society--United States --History --18th century. Women and literature--United States --History --18th century. American literature--1783-1850 --History and criticism. Narration (Rhetoric)--History --19th century. Law and literature--History --18th century. Women--United States --Intellectual life. Social problems in literature. Race in literature. Law in literature. United States--Race relations --History --18th century.

Contents	Executing race : infanticide narratives -- Belinda : the politics of petitions -- Posthumous constructions : the writings of Ann Eliza Bleecker -- Margaretta Bleecker faugeres : a post-revolutionary "freedom of mind" -- Lost boundaries : carnivalizing race and sexuality in Tabitha Tenney's Female quixotism -- Lucy Terry : a life of radical resistance -- Appendix : Lucy Terry's obituary.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-226) and index.
LCCN	2004019147
ISBN	0814209750 (alk. paper)
ISBN	0814251315 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	0814290523 (cd)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PS149 .H37 2005	✔ Available	Place Hold