NEH grant products: Transformable Race and the Literatures of Early America

FT-57817-10
Transformable Race and the Literatures of Early America
Katy Chiles, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Grant details: https://apps.neh.gov/publicquery/main.aspx?f=1&gn=FT-57817-10

Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America (Book)
Title: Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America
Author: Katy L. Chiles
Abstract: Contrasting sharply with subsequent periods, much late eighteenth-century thought conceptualized race as an external, mutable bodily condition that could change over time. Identifying how this thinking shapes and is shaped by literary culture, Transformable Race and the Literatures of Early America argues that the notion of transformable race structures how early American writers depict the production of racial identities.
Year: 2014
Primary URL: http://www.oxfordscholarship.com.proxy.lib.utk.edu:90/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199313501.001.0001/acprof-9780199313501
Secondary URL: http://www.amazon.com/Transformable-Race-Surprising-Metamorphoses-Literature/dp/0199313504/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1460068651&sr=8-1&keywords=transformable+race
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-0199313501
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes