'The Word in Black and White' Dana D. Nelson (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, Louisiana State University)

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This study aims to describe the ways in which white American authors constructed race in their work from the time of the first colonists up to the period of the Civil War. The book focuses on a number of texts that deal with the relations among Indians, blacks and whites.

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'The Word in Black and White': Reading `Race' in American Literature, 1638-1867 by Dana D. Nelson (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, Louisiana State University)

Nelson provides a study of the ways in which white American authors constructed `race' in their works from the time of the first colonists up to the period of the Civil War. She focuses on some eleven texts, including The Last of the Mohicans, Melville's Benito Cereno, and Harriet Jacobs's Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl.

'The Word in Black and White' Reviews

Thoughtful, well-researched, and provocative study....Serves admirably as a primer for reading constructions of race in a variety of primary texts across a significant range of genres in early American literary and cultural history. * William and Mary Quarterly *
Timely...An exemplary work of cultural history and literary criticism....A sophisticated authoritative book valuable to specialists and advanced students. * Choice *
Thoughtful, well-researched, and provocative study....Serves admirably as a primer for reading constructions of race in a variety of primary texts across a significant range of genres in early American literary and cultural history. * William and Mary Quarterly *
Timely...An exemplary work of cultural history and literary criticism....A sophisticated authoritative book valuable to specialists and advanced students. * Choice *

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Sku

CIN0195065921G

ISBN 13

9780195065923

ISBN 10

0195065921

Title

'The Word in Black and White': Reading `Race' in American Literature, 1638-1867 by Dana D. Nelson (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, Louisiana State University)

Author

Dana D. Nelson (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, Louisiana State University)

Condition

Used - Good

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

Oxford University Press Inc

Year published

19920227

Number of pages

206

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