The Inhuman Race: The Racial Grotesque in American Literature and Culture

by Leonard Cassuto

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Reconstructs a dialogue between objectifiers (American Puritans, slaveowners) and objectifieds (Native Americans, slaves) by arguing that the literature of race in antebellum America is the continuing story of an encounter with the grotesque. The focus is on literature-from Puritan captivity accounts, fugitive slave narratives, and proslavery fiction to the work of Melville, Stowe, Douglass, and their contemporaries. But Cassuto also ranges from colonial...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:B002C9W4U6

ISBN13:9780231103374

Release Date:April 1996

Publisher:Columbia University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Age Range:22 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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