When it first appeared in 1767, The Female American was called a
""sort of second Robinson Crusoe; full of wonders."" Indeed, The
Female American is an adventure novel about an English protagonist
shipwrecked on a deserted isle, where survival requires both
individual ingenuity and careful negotiations with visiting local
Indians. But what most distinguishes Winkfield's novel is her
protagonist, a woman who is of mixed race. Though the era's popular
novels typically featured women in the confining contexts of the
home and the bourgeois marriage market, Winkfield's novel portrays
an autonomous and mobile heroine living alone in the wilds of the
New World, independently interacting with both Native Americans and
visiting Europeans. Moreover, The Female American is one of the
earliest novelistic efforts to articulate an American identity, and
more specifically to investigate what that identity might promise
for women. This second edition has been updated throughout and
includes a greatly expanded selection of historical materials on
castaway narratives and the cultural context of colonial America.
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