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Author

Nelson, Dana D.

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

Imprint

New York : Oxford University Press, 1994, c1992.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 2nd Floor Stacks	810.9355 N332w 1994	---	Available

Description	xvi, 189 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-184) and index.
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.
Subject	American literature -- Colonial period, approximately 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.
	United States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
	United States -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
	United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
ISBN	0195089278 (pbk)