Beschreibung:
Through close readings of texts by African American and women authors, Minority Reports offers a theoretical defense of the use of identity categories in American studies by examining how early American literature not only responds to the social stratification of the nineteenth century but also challenges modern historical conceptions of this era.
Minority Reports reconfigures traditional histories of racial, sexual, and gender identities, while it simultaneously re-assesses recent paradigms for minority identity more generally
Introduction: Identity, History, Narrative What Do We Want from Harriet Wilson? Frank J. Webb and the Fate of the Sentimental Race Man Setting the Record Straight in Uncle Tom's Cabin Frederick Douglass, Whiteness, and the Limits of Knowledge Face Value: Ambivalent Citizenship in Iola Leroy Conclusion: Return from the Beyond