Imitation nation : red, white, and blackface in early and Antebellum US literature

Imitation nation : red, white, and blackface in early and Antebellum US literature /

The book offers a new model for understanding the ways in which the nation's identity and literature took shape during the early phases of the American republic.

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Richards, Jason, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017
Subjects:
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Race in literature.
Minorities in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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