The Inhuman Race
The Racial Grotesque in American Literature and Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4546229 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Looby (corresponding author), Leonard Cassuto |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 357 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African American Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1062-4783 • E-ISSN: 1945-6182 |
| Publisher | Penn State Press (Project Muse) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2901285 |
| OpenAlex | W619603468 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
While modern critics have tended to approach black and white perspectives of race in America by considering the two sides separately, Cassuto's timely book brings the two together, reconstructing a dialogue between objectifiers (American Puritans, slaveowners) and objectifieds (Native Americans, slaves). The focus is on literature - from Puritan captivity accounts, fugitive slave narratives, and proslavery fiction to the work of writers such as 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. The Inhuman Race challenges not so much what we think as the way we think: the way we organize information - and people - into categories. Cassuto thus links the imagination and events of colonial and antebellum Americans directly to our own troubled times
Race (biology · Sociology · American Literature and Humor Studies · Gender Studies · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez
The Jazz Problem
Grotesque Encounters with Adolescence
The Fistful of Flies
To Intermix with Our White Brothers
The Cambridge History of the American Novel
Bodyminds Reimagined
The Reconstruction of Whiteness
Examining Millie and Christine McKoy
The Race Question and the “Question of the Home”
Dehumanizing Slave Personhood
Valdemar’s Abjection
The View from Outside
American Incunabula
Race, Creole, and National Identities in Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea and Phillips's Cambridge
Melville's Ethnic Conscriptions
He's Sending His People Messages out of His Pain”
How does she do that?’ Belly Dancing and the Horror of a Flexible Woman
"And the Injun goes "How
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,64 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2019 (22) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |