Coral Lives : Literature, Labor, and the Making of America /

"In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, coral specimens featured prominently in cabinets of curiosity, and in literary work by writers from Herman Melville to Lydia Huntley Sigourney. Children sang of coral in popular songs. Women, both free and enslaved, wore coral beads. Reef samples dre...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Navakas, Michele Currie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2023]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Material culture.
Corals.
Coral jewelry.
African Americans > Material culture.
Material culture > United States > History.
African Americans > Material culture > History.
Coral industry and trade > Social aspects > History.
Coral jewelry > History > United States.
Corals > Political aspects > United States.
Corals > Social aspects > United States.
United States > Civilization > Miscellanea.
Corals > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Global Biography of Early American Coral
  • Red Coral Jewelry
  • Coral and Bells
  • Coral Reef Specimens
  • 2. "Labors of the Coral"
  • Coral Insect Labor
  • Exhaustless Laborers
  • "The Coral People"
  • Interchapter: The Korl Woman
  • 3. Fathomless Forms of Life
  • Hidden Complexities: Peyssonnel's "Coral Insect" (1726)
  • Founded in Relations: Darwin's "Coral Insect" (1842)
  • Interchapter: "I Come from Coral Reefs"
  • 4. Coral Collectives
  • Color Plates
  • "Society is that Island"
  • We Are Not That Island Yet
  • African American Coral Collectives
  • Interchapter: "The Coral Builders," St. John's AME Church, Cleveland, Ohio
  • 5. Red Coral, Black Atlantic
  • Palmyre Philosophe's Red Coral Necklace and Black Atlantic Ritual
  • US Literature's Red Coral Repertoire, ca. 1850-1900
  • Stowe, Coral, and Race
  • Interchapter: Topsy in Coral
  • Coda: Coral Temporalities
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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