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Transformable race : surprising metamorphoses in the literature of early America /

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Main Authors: Chiles, Katy L.
Corporate Authors: Oxford University Press.
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: [2014]
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
American literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Race in literature.
Race awareness in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Human skin color in literature.
Blacks > Race identity > United States > History > 18th century.
Indians of North America > Ethnic identity > History > 18th century.
Whites > Race identity > United States > History > 18th century.
Online Access: http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=b4f7f1006e53478c9f8eca974a541bbb
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xi, 315 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780199313518
Index Number: PS195
CLC: I712.064
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: Cre?vecoeur, Marrant, and Brown on becoming Indian -- Passing as, transforming into Cre?vecoeur'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.

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