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题名/责任者:

Transformable race : surprising metamorphoses in the literature of early America / Katy L. Chiles.

出版发行项:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]

ISBN:

9780199313501 (hbk.)

ISBN:

0199313504

载体形态项:

xi, 315 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

个人责任者:

Chiles, Katy L.

论题主题:

American literature-18th century-History and criticism.

论题主题:

Race in literature.

论题主题:

Race awareness in literature.

论题主题:

Race relations in literature.

论题主题:

Human skin color in literature.

论题主题:

Blacks-Race identity-United States-History-18th century.

论题主题:

Indians of North America-Race identity-History-18th century.

论题主题:

Whites-Race identity-United States-History-18th century.

中图法分类号:

I712.064

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-299) and index.

内容附注:

Introduction: surprising metamorphoses -- Becoming colored in Occom and Wheatley's early America -- To make Samson Occom "so" -- "To make a poet black" -- The political bodies of Benjamin Franklin and Hendrick Aupaumut -- You are what you eat; or, Franklin's practice makes (almost) perfect -- Hendrick Aupaumut's own color -- Transforming into natives: Cre?vecoeur, Marrant, and Brown on becoming Indian -- Passing as, transforming into Cre?vecoeur's American race -- John Marrant becoming Cherokee -- Edgar Huntly's unsettling transformation -- Doubting transformable race: -- Equiano, Brackenridge, and the textuality of natural history -- To quote and to question: Olaudah Equiano's provocative ends -- Brackenridge and the limits of writing natural history -- Epilogue: interiorizing racial metamorphosis: -- The Algerine captive's language of sympathy.

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