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Transformable Race - Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America (Hardcover)
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Transformable Race - Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America (Hardcover)
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As surprising as it might seem now, during the late eighteenth
century many early Americans asked themselves, "How could a person
of one race come to be another?" Racial thought at the close of the
eighteenth century differed radically from that of the nineteenth
century, when the concept of race as a fixed biological category
would emerge. Instead, many early Americans thought that race was
an exterior bodily trait, incrementally produced by environmental
factors and continuously subject to change. While historians have
documented aspects of eighteenth-century racial thought,
Transformable Race is the first scholarly book that identifies how
this thinking informs the figurative language in the literature of
this crucial period. It argues that the notion of "transformable
race" structured how early American texts portrayed the formation
of racial identities. Examining figures such as Phillis Wheatley,
Benjamin Franklin, Samson Occom, and Charles Brockden Brown,
Transformable Race demonstrates how these authors used language
emphasizing or questioning the potential malleability of physical
features to explore the construction of racial categories.
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