Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Shuffelton, Frank, 1940-

Description

1. viii, 286 p.; 22 cm.

Subject

1. Ethnic groups in literature
2. American literature > Minority authors > History and criticism
3. Ethnology in literature
4. Ethnicity > United States > History > 18th century
5. Ethnicity in literature
6. Ethnicity > United States > History > 17th century
7. American literature > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > History and criticism
8. United States > Ethnic relations
9. Ethnic relations in literature

Contents

1. Economies of morality and power : reading "race" in two colonial contexts / Dana D. Nelson -- "So unstable and like mad men they were" : language and interpretation in American captivity narratives / David R. Sewell -- John Williams's captivity narrative / Rosalie Murphy Baum -- The American Indian as humorist in colonial literature / Luise van Keuren -- Red, white, and Black : Indian captivities, colonial printers, and early African-American narrative / John Sekora -- Recapturing John Marrant / Benilde Montgomery -- Representation of ethnicity among colonial Pennsylvania Germans / William T. Parsons -- Cosmopolitanism and the Anglo-Jewish elite in British America / David S. Shields -- Ethnic humor in early American jest books / Robert Secor -- The gratification of that corrupt and lawless passion : character types and themes in early New England rape narratives / Daniel Williams -- Phillis Wheatley and the Black American Revolution / Betsy Erkkila -- The heritage of American ethnicity in Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American farmer / Doreen Alvarez Saar -- Thomas Jefferson : race, culture, and the failure of anthropological method / Frank Shuffelton.

Call number

1. IE 93-6622

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. A Mixed race : ethnicity in early America / edited by Frank Shuffelton.

Imprint

1. New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Shuffelton, Frank, 1940-

LCCN

1. 92043927

ISBN

1. 0195075226
2. 0195075234

Research call number

1. IE 93-6622
2. Sc D 93-1341