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Surprising Metamorphoses: Transformations of Race in Early American Literatures

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>"Surprising Metamorphoses: Transformations of Race in Early American Literatures," analyzes early American literary representations of race within the context of contemporaneous belief systems. Contrasting sharply with subsequent periods, much late eighteenth-century thought conceptualized race as an external, mutable bodily condition that could change over time. Identifying how this thinking informs...

Keyword:

African-American writing, Native American writing, critical race studies, race, and early American literature

Subject:

English

Creator:

Katy Leigh Chiles

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

09/13/2018

Date Modified:

09/13/2018

Date Created:

2008-07-10

Resource Type:

Dissertation