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The word in black and white : reading "race" in American literature, 1638-1867

Print Book, English, ©1993
Oxford University Press, New York, ©1993
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xvi, 189 pages ; 24 cm
9780195065923, 9780195089271, 0195065921, 0195089278
1011767991
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