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Title A Mixed race : ethnicity in early America / edited by Frank Shuffelton
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1993

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 286 pages)
Contents 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 William's captivity narrative: A consideration of normative ethnicity / Rosalie Murphy Baum -- The American Indian as humorist in colonial literature / Luise van Keuren -- Red, white, and black: Indian captivities, colonial printers, and the early African-American narrative / John Sekora -- Recapturing John Marrant / Benilde Montgomery
(cont.) 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
Summary Focusing on the 18th century and colonial American values, this collection of essays explores the subject of ethnicity in the USA. Moving from questions of race and ethnicity to varieties of ethnic representation, it sheds light on the confrontations of ethnically different peoples
Analysis English literature
United States
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism
American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism
Ethnicity -- United States -- History -- 17th century
Ethnicity -- United States -- History -- 18th century
Ethnic relations in literature.
Ethnic groups in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American literature -- Colonial period
American literature -- Minority authors
Ethnic groups in literature
Ethnic relations
Ethnic relations in literature
Ethnicity
Intellectual life
SUBJECT United States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140364
United States -- Intellectual life -- 17th century
United States -- Ethnic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140043
Subject United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Shuffelton, Frank, 1940-
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