Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature, 1787-1845Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998 - 238 oldal In Master Plots, Jared Gardner examines the tangled intersection of racial and national discourses in early American narrative. While it is well known that the writers of the early national period were preoccupied with differentiating their work from European models, Gardner argues that the national literature of the United States was equally motivated by the desire to differentiate white Americans from blacks and Indians. To achieve these ends, early American writers were drawn to fantasies of an "American race", and an American literature came to be defined not only by its desire for cultural uniqueness but also by its defense of racial purity. |
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... Brown's first novel is subtitled " An American Tale , " and all of his major work specifically grounds its action in the United States . Thus , by the time Brown arrives at Edgar Huntly , the necessity of fully tackling the still ...
... Brown's first novel is subtitled " An American Tale , " and all of his major work specifically grounds its action in the United States . Thus , by the time Brown arrives at Edgar Huntly , the necessity of fully tackling the still ...
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... Brown , 207-11 . Most other accounts have relied on War- fel's contextualization . Warfel's extremely useful account has proved a troubling source for this material insofar as it overvalues the originality of Brown's rhetoric and ...
... Brown , 207-11 . Most other accounts have relied on War- fel's contextualization . Warfel's extremely useful account has proved a troubling source for this material insofar as it overvalues the originality of Brown's rhetoric and ...
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... Brown's high - Godwinism as a consideration of the period's anxieties about aliens and the inherent corruptibility of the American . In the end , Brown's first con- frontation with these laws leaves him comfortable in his position as ...
... Brown's high - Godwinism as a consideration of the period's anxieties about aliens and the inherent corruptibility of the American . In the end , Brown's first con- frontation with these laws leaves him comfortable in his position as ...
Tartalomjegyzék
The History of White Negroes | 1 |
Chapter 2 | 25 |
Chapter 3 | 52 |
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Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature, 1787-1845 Jared Gardner Korlátozott előnézet - 2000 |
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