American Literature the late-seventeenth-century political contexts that led to the emergence of the captivity narrative genre, including events such as the Restoration, challenges to the Massachusetts charter, and King Williamâs War, which marked the shifting place of New England in the English imperial project, Toulouse uncovers deep ambivalences, contradictions, and tensions between elder and younger generations of Puritan male colonists and between Puritan male colonists and English officials. Captivity narratives from Rowlandson through Williams, Toulouse writes, âat once express and give shape to certain New Englishmenâs responses to historical and political transformations in fatherly authorityâ (19). Her argument pushes us all to read these narratives and the colonial mindsets they document beyond the reductive binary of âPuritans versus Indiansâ and instead to see New England within the context of a dynamic transatlantic imperial conversation, one shaped and inflected by constructs of gender. Karen Weylerâs Intricate Relations likewise enriches our understanding of the multiple social and economic contexts shaping one of the literary successors to the captivity narrative: the early American novel. With fascinating new finds from early U.S. newspaper archives, religious, political, and medical writings, and ephemera, Weyler offers fresh and insightful new readings of better- and lesser-known
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Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness; The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880-1940
Evans, Brad
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Duke University Press – Jan 1, 2009
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