The inhuman race
the racial grotesque in American literature and culture
by Leonard Cassuto
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While modern critics have tended to approach black and white perspectives of race in America by considering the two sides separately, Cassuto's timely book brings the two together, reconstructing a dialogue between objectifiers (American Puritans, slaveowners) and objectifieds (Native Americans, slaves).
The focus is on literature - from Puritan captivity accounts, fugitive slave narratives, and proslavery fiction to the work of writers such as Melville, Stowe, Douglass, and their contemporaries - but Cassuto also ranges from colonial prodigies to nineteenth-century freak shows and Sambo stereotyping, from horror movies to the Holocaust Museum.
The Inhuman Race challenges not so much what we think as the way we think: the way we organize information - and people - into categories. Cassuto thus links the imagination and events of colonial and antebellum Americans directly to our own troubled times.
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African Americans in literature, Grotesque in literature, Stereotype (Psychology) in literature, Difference (Psychology) in literature, Slavery in literature, History and criticism, American literature, Racism, Race in literature, Monsters in literature, Indians in literature, History, American literature, history and criticism, Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature, Amerikaans, Letterkunde, Rassen (mens), Het Groteske, Das Groteske, Farbiger (Motiv), Farbiger, Literatur, Rassenvorurteil, Rassismus (Motiv), Littérature américaine, Histoire et critique, Racisme, Dans la littérature, Stéréotype (psychologie), Race dans la littérature, Monstres, Grotesque dans la littérature, Rasse <Motiv>, Stereotyp, Das @Groteske, RassismusPlaces
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The inhuman race: the racial grotesque in American literature and culture
1999, Columbia University Press
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The inhuman race: the racial grotesque in American literature and culture
1997, Columbia University Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-280) and index.
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