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'The Word in Black and White' - Reading `Race' in American Literature, 1638-1867 (Hardcover, New)
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'The Word in Black and White' - Reading `Race' in American Literature, 1638-1867 (Hardcover, New)
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Nelson provides a study of the ways in which Anglo-American authors
constructed "race" in their works from the time of the first
British colonists through the period of the Civil War. She focuses
on some eleven texts, ranging from widely-known to
little-considered, that deal with the relations among Native,
African, and Anglo-Americans, and places her readings in the
historical, social, and material contexts of an evolving U.S.
colonialism and internal imperialism. Nelson shows how a novel such
as The Last of the Mohicans sought to reify the Anglo historical
past and simultaneously suggested strategies that would serve
Anglo-Americans against Native Americans as the frontier pushed
further west. Concluding her work with a reading of Harriet
Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Nelson shows how
that text undercuts the racist structures of the pre-Civil War
period by positing a revised model of sympathy that authorizes
alternative cultural perspectives and requires Anglo-Americans to
question their own involvement with racism.
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