Record Details     « New Search       Brief Record Full Record MARC Record     Bibliographic Data Control Number muse60367 Control Number Identifier MdBmJHUP Date and Time of Latest Transaction 20180103104318.0 General Information 170609s2017 vau o 00 0 eng d International Standard Book Number 9780813940656   0813940656   9780813940649 (cloth : alk. paper) System Control Number (OCoLC)1012400359 Cataloging Source MdBmJHUP MdBmJHUP Library of Congress Call Number PS374.R32 R53 2017 Dewey Decimal Classification Number 813.009/355 23 Main Entry - Personal Name Richards, Jason, 1968-, author. Title Statement Imitation Nation [electronic resource] : Red, White, and Blackface in Early and Antebellum US Literature / Jason Richards Physical Description 1 online resource (pages cm) Formatted Contents Note Introduction: fail in originality, succeed in imitation -- The new republic's two frontiers: redface desire, European mimicry, and Edgar Huntly -- Localizing the early republic: Washington Irving and blackface culture -- Cooper's Anglo-Saxon masquerade: redface, whiteface, and the pioneers -- Blackface minstrelsy and the making of African American selfhood in Uncle Tom's cabin -- Melville's (inter)national burlesque: whiteface, blackface, and "Benito Cereno" -- Blackface violence and the early African American novel -- Epilogue: absorbing mimesis Subject Added Entry - Topical Term National characteristics, American, in literature   Minorities in literature   Race in literature   American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Index Term - Genre/Form Electronic books. -- local Added Entry - Corporate Name Project Muse           Physical Location           Digital Copy Not Available          Add to Book Cart  |   Download MARC