The Inhuman Race: The Racial Grotesque in American Literature and Culture by Cassuto, Leonard

The Inhuman Race: The Racial Grotesque in American Literature and Culture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780231103374)

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The Inhuman Race: The Racial Grotesque in American Literature and Culture by Cassuto, Leonard

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

$37.00
The Inhuman Race: The Racial Grotesque in American Literature and Culture by Cassuto, Leonard

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

$37.00
Format: Paperback
Description
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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 prodigies to nineteenth-century freak shows and Sambo stereotyping, from horror movies to the Holocaust Museum.

Author: Leonard Cassuto
ISBN-10: 0231103379
ISBN-13: 9780231103374
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/16/1996
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.02w x 0.67d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/15/1997 pg. 135
Library Journal 02/01/1997
By Leonard Cassuto
By Leonard Cassuto
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Leonard Cassuto is associate professor of English and American literature at Fordham University.

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