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Author:

Harris, Sharon M.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

x, 240 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American prose literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--History and criticism.
American prose literature--History and criticism.--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.
United States--History--History--18th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-226) and index.

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.

ISBN:

9780814290521 (cd)
0814290523 (cd)
9780814251317 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0814251315 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814209752 (alk. paper)
0814209750 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)56371671

LCCN:

2004019147

Locations:

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

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)