Executing Race : Early American Women's Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law /

Executing Race : Early American Women's Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law /

Show other versions (1)

At the 2005 meeting of the Society of Early Americanists, Annette Kolodny called for more literary-historical scholarship that speaks to the hard facts of women's lives in the colonial Americas, scholarship more alert to the human costs for Euro-American, African American, and Native American w...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harris, Sharon M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women > Intellectual life.
Women and literature.
Social problems in literature.
Race relations.
Race in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Literature and society.
Law in literature.
Law and literature.
American prose literature > Women authors.
American prose literature > Colonial period.
American literature.
American literature > Women authors.
Prose americaine > ca 1600-1775 (Periode coloniale) > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et litterature > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Narration > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Droit dans la litterature.
Écrits de femmes americains > Histoire et critique.
Litterature americaine > 1783-1850 > Histoire et critique.
Droit et litterature > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Femmes > États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle.
Problemes sociaux dans la litterature.
Race dans la litterature.
Litterature et societe > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Prose americaine > ca 1600-1775 (Periode coloniale) > Historie et critique.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women > United States > Intellectual life.
Law and literature > History > 18th century.
Narration (Rhetoric) > History > 19th century.
American literature > 1783-1850 > History and criticism.
Women and literature > United States > History > 18th century.
Literature and society > United States > History > 18th century.
American prose literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
American prose literature > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > History and criticism.
United States.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire > 18e siecle.
United States > Race relations > History > 18th century.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Full text available:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:At the 2005 meeting of the Society of Early Americanists, Annette Kolodny called for more literary-historical scholarship that speaks to the hard facts of women's lives in the colonial Americas, scholarship more alert to the human costs for Euro-American, African American, and Native American women of transatlantic imperialism and the local cultural regimes that sustained it. Sharon Harris's Executing Race: Early American Women's Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law advances this important project. As readers of Legacy know, Sharon Harris has made many significant contributions to the study of early American women's writing. Her Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray (Oxford University Press, 1995) reintroduced the incomparable early American feminist to literary scholarship; Harris also edited the well-received anthology American Women Writers to 1800 (Oxford University Press, 1996), which recovered almost one hundred woman-authored texts representing women's ideas and experiences in the colonial and early national eras. Executing Race is most notable for its new and revealing biographies of lesser-known early American women authors such as Lucy Terry and Ann Eliza Bleecker, along with its clear-sighted assessment of how Anglophone North American white women both profited from and lost by colonialism.
Physical Description:1 online resource (288 pages).
ISBN:9780814272848
Access:Open Access

Similar Items