Transformable Race
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-931350-1 (ISBN)
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.
Katy L. Chiles is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.
Table of Contents ; Introduction: Surprising Metamorphoses ; 1. Becoming Colored in Occom and Wheatley's Early America ; To Make Samson Occom "So" ; "To Make a Poet Black" ; 2. The Political Bodies of Benjamin Franklin and Hendrick Aupaumut ; You Are What You Eat; or, Franklin's Practice Makes (Almost) Perfect ; Hendrick Aupaumut's Own Color ; 3. Transforming into Natives: Crevecoeur, Marrant, and Brown on Becoming Indian ; Passing As, Transforming into ; Crevecoeur's American Race ; John Marrant Becoming Cherokee ; Edgar Huntly's Unsettling Transformation ; 4. Doubting Transformable Race: ; Equiano, Brackenridge, and the Textuality of Natural History ; To Quote and to Question: Olaudah Equiano's Provocative Ends ; Brackenridge and the Limits of Writing Natural History ; Epilogue: Interiorizing Racial Metamorphosis: ; The Algerine Captive's Language of Sympathy ; NOTES
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 27.2.2014 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 9 halftones |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 236 x 165 mm |
| Gewicht | 567 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-931350-4 / 0199313504 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-931350-1 / 9780199313501 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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