Mixed Race : Ethnicity in Early America.

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This collection of new essays enters one of the most topical and energetic debates of our time--the subject of ethnicity. The recent vigorous debates being waged over questions raised by the phenomenon of multiculturalism in America highlight the fact that American culture has arisen out of anunusua...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Shuffelton, Frank
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Subjects:
1600-1775
American literature.
American literature > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > History and criticism.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Ethnic relations in literature.
Ethnicity.
Ethnicity in literature.
Ethnology in literature.
American literature > Minority authors > History and criticism.
Ethnicity > United States > History > 17th century.
Ethnicity > United States > History > 18th century.
Littérature américaine > ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale) > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs issus des minorités > Histoire et critique.
Ethnicité > États-Unis > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Ethnicité > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Relations interethniques dans la littérature.
Groupes ethniques dans la littérature.
Ethnologie dans la littérature.
Ethnicité dans la littérature.
Littérature américaine.
Ethnicité.
ethnicity.
American literature
American literature > Colonial period
Ethnic groups in literature
Ethnic relations in literature
Ethnicity
Ethnicity in literature
Ethnology in literature
United States > Ethnic relations.
États-Unis > Relations interethniques.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Contributors; Introduction; I: Questions of Race and Ethnicity; 1. Economies of Morality and Power: Reading ""Race"" in Two Colonial Contexts; 2. ""So Unstable and Like Mad Men They Were"": Language and Interpretation in American Captivity Narratives; 3. John Williams's Captivity Narrative: A Consideration of Normative Ethnicity; 4. The American Indian as Humorist in Colonial Literature; 5. Red, White, and Black: Indian Captivities, Colonial Printers, and the Early African-American Narrative; 6. Recapturing John Marrant; II: Varieties of Ethnic Representation.
  • 7. Representation of Ethnicity Among Colonial Pennsylvania Germans8. Cosmopolitanism and the Anglo-Jewish Elite in British America; 9. Ethnic Humor in Early American Jest Books; 10. The Gratification of That Corrupt and Lawless Passion: Character Types and Themes in Early New England Rape Narratives; III: Individual Confrontations; 11. Phillis Wheatley and the Black American Revolution; 12. The Heritage of American Ethnicity in Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer; 13. Thomas Jefferson: Race, Culture, and the Failure of Anthropological Method; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L.
  • Mn; o; p; r; s; t; u; v; w; y; z.

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