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 /

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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...

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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.
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Table of Contents:
  • Executing race : infanticide narratives
  • Belinda : the politics of petitions
  • Posthumous constructions : the writings of Ann Eliza Bleecker
  • Margaretta Bleecker Faugeres : a post-revolutionary "freedom of mind"
  • Lost boundaries : carnivalizing race and sexuality in Tabitha Tenney's Female Quixotism
  • Lucy Terry : a life of radical resistance
  • Appendix : Lucy Terry's obituary.

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