Title Executing race : early American women's narratives of race, society, and the law / Sharon M. Harris

Published Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 240 pages) Contents Executing race : infanticide narratives -- Belinda : the politics of petitions -- Posthumous constructions : the writings of Ann Eliza Bleecker -- Margaretta Bleecker Faugeres : a post-revolutionary "freedom of mind" -- Lost boundaries : carnivalizing race and sexuality in Tabitha Tenney's Female Quixotism -- Lucy Terry : a life of radical resistance -- Appendix : Lucy Terry's obituary Summary At the 2005 meeting of the Society of Early Americanists, Annette Kolodny called for more literary-historical scholarship that speaks to the hard facts of women's lives in the colonial Americas, scholarship more alert to the human costs for Euro-American, African American, and Native American women of transatlantic imperialism and the local cultural regimes that sustained it. Sharon Harris's Executing Race: Early American Women's Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law advances this important project. As readers of Legacy know, Sharon Harris has made many significant contributions to the study of early American women's writing. Her Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray (Oxford University Press, 1995) reintroduced the incomparable early American feminist to literary scholarship; Harris also edited the well-received anthology American Women Writers to 1800 (Oxford University Press, 1996), which recovered almost one hundred woman-authored texts representing women's ideas and experiences in the colonial and early national eras. Executing Race is most notable for its new and revealing biographies of lesser-known early American women authors such as Lucy Terry and Ann Eliza Bleecker, along with its clear-sighted assessment of how Anglophone North American white women both profited from and lost by colonialism Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-226) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject American prose literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 18th century Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 18th century American literature -- 1783-1850 -- History and criticism Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century Law and literature -- History -- 18th century Women -- United States -- Intellectual life Social problems in literature. Race in literature. Law in literature. American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism American literature -- Women authors American literature American prose literature -- Colonial period American prose literature -- Women authors Law and literature Law in literature Literature and society Narration (Rhetoric) Race in literature Race relations Social problems in literature Women and literature Women -- Intellectual life SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century Subject United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 0814251315 9780814251317 0814272843 9780814272848

Other Titles Early American women's narratives of race, society, and the law

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