The genuine article: race, mass culture, and American literary manhood

Introduction -- Prologue: staging manhood, writing manhood: cultural authority and the Indian body -- "De Genewine Artekil": William Wells Brown, Blackface Minstrelsy, and abolitionism -- The Indian in the museum: Henry David Thoreau, Okah Tubbee, and authentic manhood -- A "RaraAvis...

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Main Author: Gilmore, Paul 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham [N.C.] Duke University Press 2001
Series:New Americanists
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Summary:Introduction -- Prologue: staging manhood, writing manhood: cultural authority and the Indian body -- "De Genewine Artekil": William Wells Brown, Blackface Minstrelsy, and abolitionism -- The Indian in the museum: Henry David Thoreau, Okah Tubbee, and authentic manhood -- A "RaraAvis in Terris": Poe's "Hop-Frog" and race in the antebellum freak show -- Inward criminality and the shadow of race: the house of the seven gables and Daguerreotypy -- Epilogue: electric chains
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-266) and index
Physical Description:x, 274 p ill 25 cm
ISBN:9780822380313
0822380315

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