ISBN:
0199313504
,
9780199313501
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 315 S.
,
lll.
,
25 cm
DDC:
810.9/3529
Keywords:
American literature History and criticism 18th century
;
Race in literature
;
Race awareness in literature
;
Race relations in literature
;
Human skin color in literature
;
Blacks Race identity 18th century
;
History
;
Indians of North America Race identity 18th century
;
History
;
Whites Race identity 18th century
;
History
;
USA
;
Literatur
;
Hautfarbe
;
Rasse
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
;
Geschichte 1700-1800
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: surprising metamorphosesBecoming 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (page 223-299) and index
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