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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nelson, Dana D.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Subjects:
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.
United States > Intellectual life > 18th century.
United States > Intellectual life > 17th century.
United States > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Table of 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.

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