Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America.

Racial thought at the close of the 18th century differed radically from that of the 19th century, when the concept of race as a fixed biological category would emerge. Instead, many early Americans thought that race was an exterior bodily trait, incrementally produced by environmental factors, and c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Chiles, Katy L.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford Scholarship Online, [2014]
Subjects:	1700-1799 American literature > 18th century > History and criticism. Race in literature. Race awareness in literature. Race relations in literature. Human skin color in literature. Black people > Race identity > United States > History > 18th century. Indians of North America > Ethnic identity > History > 18th century. White people > Race identity > United States > History > 18th century. American literature Black people > Race identity Human skin color in literature Indians of North America > Ethnic identity Race awareness in literature Race in literature Race relations in literature White people > Race identity United States Criticism, interpretation, etc. History
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: surprising metamorphoses
Becoming colored in Occom and Wheatley's early America
To make Samson Occom "so"
"To make a poet black"
The political bodies of Benjamin Franklin and Hendrick Aupaumut
You are what you eat; or, Franklin's practice makes (almost) perfect
Hendrick Aupaumut's own color
Transforming into natives: Crèvecoeur, Marrant, and Brown on becoming Indian
Passing as, transforming into Crèvecoeur's American race
John Marrant becoming Cherokee
Edgar Huntly's unsettling transformation
Doubting transformable race:
Equiano, Brackenridge, and the textuality of natural history
To quote and to question: Olaudah Equiano's provocative ends
Brackenridge and the limits of writing natural history
Epilogue: interiorizing racial metamorphosis:
The Algerine captive's language of sympathy.

Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America.

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