Minority Reports: Identity and Social Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

✍ Scribed by Michael Borgstrom (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 194
Series: The Future of Minority Studies
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction Identity, History, Narrative....Pages 1-18
What Do We Want From Harriet Wilson?....Pages 19-35
Frank J. Webb and the Fate of the Sentimental Race Man....Pages 37-53
Setting the Record Straight in Uncle Tom’s Cabin....Pages 55-73
Frederick Douglass and the Limits of Knowledge....Pages 75-92
Face Value: Ambivalent Citizenship in Iola Leroy....Pages 93-108
Conclusion Return from the Beyond....Pages 109-115
Back Matter....Pages 117-183

✦ Subjects

North American Literature; Gender Studies; African American Culture

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