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Author:

Chiles, Katy L.

Title:

Transformable race : surprising metamorphoses in the literature of early America / Katy L. Chiles.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xi, 315 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

American literature--18th century--History and criticism.
Race in literature.
Race awareness in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Human skin color in literature.
Blacks--History--United States--History--18th century.
Indians of North America--History--History--18th century.
Whites--History--United States--History--18th century.
Literatur.
Rasse.
Ethnische Beziehung.
USA.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-299) and index.

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: 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.

ISBN:

0199313504
9780199313501

OCLC:

(OCoLC)853435852

LCCN:

2013019945

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)