UID:
almafu_9959230042502883
Format:
1 online resource (295 p.)
ISBN:
0-19-772530-9
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1-280-44239-5
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1-4237-6473-0
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0-19-536056-7
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1-60129-883-8
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
Focusing on the 18th century and colonial American values, this collection of essays explores the subject of ethnicity in the USA. Moving from questions of race and ethnicity to varieties of ethnic representation, it sheds light on the confrontations of ethnically different peoples.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 1993.
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""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""I: Questions of Race and Ethnicity""; ""1. Economies of Morality and Power: Reading ""Race"" in Two Colonial Contexts""; ""2. ""So Unstable and Like Mad Men They Were"": Language and Interpretation in American Captivity Narratives""; ""3. John Williams's Captivity Narrative: A Consideration of Normative Ethnicity""; ""4. The American Indian as Humorist in Colonial Literature""; ""5. Red, White, and Black: Indian Captivities, Colonial Printers, and the Early African-American Narrative""; ""6. Recapturing John Marrant""
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""13. Thomas Jefferson: Race, Culture, and the Failure of Anthropological Method""""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-507522-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-507523-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780195075229.001.0001
