Format:
xi, 244 Seiten
ISBN:
9780813940649
Content:
Introduction: fail in originality, succeed in imitation -- The new republic's two frontiers: redface desire, European mimicry, and Edgar Huntly -- Localizing the early republic: Washington Irving and blackface culture -- Cooper's Anglo-Saxon masquerade: redface, whiteface, and the pioneers -- Blackface minstrelsy and the making of African American selfhood in Uncle Tom's cabin -- Melville's (inter)national burlesque: whiteface, blackface, and "Benito Cereno" -- Blackface violence and the early African American novel -- Epilogue: absorbing mimesis
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 221-236 und Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813940656
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
Keywords:
USA
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Literatur
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Rasse
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Minderheit
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Irving, Washington 1783-1859
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Cooper, James Fenimore 1789-1851
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher 1811-1896
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Melville, Herman 1819-1891
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Delany, Martin Robison 1812-1885
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