| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 286 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Economies of morality and power: Reading "race" in two colonial contexts / Dana D. Nelson -- "So unstable and like mad men they were": Language and interpretation in American captivity narratives / David R. Sewell -- John William's captivity narrative: A consideration of normative ethnicity / Rosalie Murphy Baum -- The American Indian as humorist in colonial literature / Luise van Keuren -- Red, white, and black: Indian captivities, colonial printers, and the early African-American narrative / John Sekora -- Recapturing John Marrant / Benilde Montgomery. |
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(cont.) Representation of ethnicity among colonial Pennsylvania Germans / William T. Parsons -- Cosmopolitanism and the Anglo-Jewish elite in British America / David S. Shields -- Ethnic humor in early American jest books / Robert Secor -- The gratification of that corrupt and lawless passion: Character types and themes in early New England rape narratives / Daniel Williams -- Phillis Wheatley and the Black American Revolution / Betsy Erkkila -- The heritage of American ethnicity in Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer / Doreen Alvarez Saar -- Thomas Jefferson: Race, culture, and the failure of anthropological method / Frank Shuffelton. |
| Summary |
Focusing on the 18th century and colonial American values, this collection of essays explores the subject of ethnicity in the USA. Moving from questions of race and ethnicity to varieties of ethnic representation, it sheds light on the confrontations of ethnically different peoples. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Minority authors. |
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Ethnicity -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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Ethnicity. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
United States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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Intellectual life. |
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Ethnic relations in literature.
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Ethnic relations in literature. |
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Ethnic groups in literature.
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Ethnic groups in literature. |
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United States -- Ethnic relations.
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Ethnic relations. |
| Chronological Term |
1600-1799 |
| Indexed Term |
English literature |
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United States |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Shuffelton, Frank, 1940-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mixed race. New York : Oxford University Press, 1993 0195075226 0195075234 (DLC) 92043927 (OCoLC)27069049 |
| ISBN |
1423764730 (electronic book) |
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9781423764731 (electronic book) |
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1601298838 |
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9781601298836 |
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9780195075229 (acid-free paper) |
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0195075226 (acid-free paper) |
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9780195075236 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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0195075234 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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1280442395 |
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9781280442391 |
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