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.

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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