Imitation nation : red, white, and blackface in early and antebellum US literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Richards, Jason, 1968- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2017]
Subjects:	American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism. Race in literature. Minorities in literature. National characteristics, American, in literature.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: fail in originality, succeed in imitation
The new republic's two frontiers: redface desire, European mimicry, and Edgar Huntly
Localizing the early republic: Washington Irving and blackface culture
Cooper's Anglo-Saxon masquerade: redface, whiteface, and the pioneers
Blackface minstrelsy and the making of African American selfhood in Uncle Tom's cabin
Melville's (inter)national burlesque: whiteface, blackface, and "Benito Cereno"
Blackface violence and the early African American novel
Epilogue: absorbing mimesis.