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  • New World Calculation

    The Making of Numbers in Colonial America

    par Molly Farrell ...
    Molly Farrell tells the story of colonial America as a testing ground for new ways of conceptualizing numbers, uncovering overlooked forms of numerical thinking to argue that colonialism and the rise of racial capitalism incited a struggle about what exactly a number is and what it can do.When English settlers began colonizing Indigenous lands, they confronted groups of people with very different ... En savoir plus

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  • Counting Bodies

    Population in Colonial American Writing

    par Molly Farrell ...
    Quantifiable citizenship in the form of birth certificates, census forms, and immigration quotas is so ubiquitous that today it appears ahistorical. Yet before the modern colonial era, there was neither a word for "population" in the sense of numbers of people, nor agreement that monarchs should count their subjects. Much of the work of naturalizing the view that people can be represented as ... En savoir plus

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  • Slavery and the Culture of Taste

    par Simon Gikandi ...
    It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste--the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics--existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary, Slavery and the Culture of Taste demonstrates that these two areas of modernity were surprisingly entwined. Ranging across Britain, the antebellum South, ... En savoir plus

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  • Settler Common Sense

    Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance

    par Mark Rifkin ...
    In Settler Common Sense, Mark Rifkin explores how canonical American writers take part in the legacy of displacing Native Americans. Although the books he focuses on are not about Indians, they serve as examples of what Rifkin calls “settler common sense,” taking for granted the legal and political structure through which Native peoples continue to be dispossessed.In analyzing Nathaniel Hawthorne ... En savoir plus

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  • Disaffected

    The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America

    par Xine Yao ...
    Collections series Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
    In Disaffected Xine Yao explores the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling—affects that are not recognized as feeling—as a means of survival and refusal in nineteenth-century America. She positions unfeeling beyond sentimentalism's paradigm of universal feeling. Yao traces how works by Herman Melville, Martin R. Delany, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Sui Sin Far ... En savoir plus

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  • Rhetorical Drag

    Gender Impersonation, Captivity, and the Writing of History

    par Carroll ...
    An innovative discussion of this unique genre of American literatureIn this fresh examination of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century American captivity narratives, author Lorrayne Carroll argues that male editors and composers impersonated the women presumed to be authors of these documents. This “gender impersonation” significantly shaped the authorial voice and complicated the use ... En savoir plus

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  • Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature

    par Matthias Klestil ...
    Collections series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenth-century African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from ecocriticism, African American studies, and Foucauldian theory, Matthias Klestil examines forms of environmental knowledge in African American writing ranging from antebellum slave narratives and pamphlets to Charlotte Forten’s journals, Booker T. Washington’s ... En savoir plus

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  • Impossible Witnesses

    Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony

    par Dwight McBride ...
    Even the most cursory review of black literary production during the nineteenth century indicates that its primary concerns were the issues of slavery, racial subjugation, abolitionist politics and liberation. How did the writers of these narratives "bear witness" to the experiences they describe? At a time when a hegemonic discourse on these subjects already existed, what did it mean to "tell the ... En savoir plus

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  • Engendering Blackness

    Slavery and the Ontology of Sexual Violence

    par Patrice D. Douglass ...
    Collections series Inventions: Black Philosophy, Politics, Aesthetics
    In this incisive new book, Patrice D. Douglass interrogates the relationship between sexual violence and modern racial slavery and finds it not only inseverable but also fundamental to the structural predicaments facing Blackness in the present. Douglass contends that the sexual violability of slaves is often misappropriated by frameworks on sexual violence that privilege its occurrence as a ... En savoir plus

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  • Dispossessed Lives

    Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive

    par Marisa J. Fuentes ...
    Collections series Early American Studies
    In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urban Caribbean slavery in this colonial town from the perspective of these women whose stories appear only briefly in historical records. Fuentes takes us through the streets of Bridgetown with an enslaved runaway; inside a brothel run by a freed woman of ... En savoir plus

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  • Women's Irony

    Rewriting Feminist Rhetorical Histories

    par Tarez Samra Graban ...
    Collections series Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms
    In Women’s Irony: Rewriting Feminist Rhetorical Histories,author Tarez Samra Graban synthesizes three decades of feminist scholarship in rhetoric, linguistics, and philosophy to present irony as a critical paradigm for feminist rhetorical historiography that is not linked to humor, lying, or intention. Using irony as a form of ideological disruption, this innovative approach allows scholars to ... En savoir plus

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  • Who Writes for Black Children?

    African American Children’s Literature before 1900

    Modifié par Katharine Capshaw, Anna Mae Duane ...
    Until recently, scholars believed that African American children’s literature did not exist before 1900. Now, Who Writes for Black Children? opens the door to a rich archive of largely overlooked literature read by black children. This volume’s combination of analytic essays, bibliographic materials, and primary texts offers alternative histories for early African American literary studies and ... En savoir plus

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