Inventing iconography on the accessible frontier: Harriet Martineau, Anna Jameson, and Margaret Fuller on the Great Lakes
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The author discusses the personal and philosophical issues that influenced the writings of early 19th Century women travelers to the Great Lakes, including Harriet Martineau, Anna Jameson, and Margaret Fuller. Social and cultural influences that skewed the authors' representation of the region's inhabitants are analyzed.
Publication Name: Prospects
Subject: Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
ISSN: 0361-2333
Year: 1999
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Pauline Hopkins and psychologies of race
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The scholars of American cultural studies conducted a project on the deconstruction distinctions between Afro-American, Anglo-American and Afro-American literary traditions. Several African American literary texts, such as Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self, are studied for this purpose.
Publication Name: Prospects
Subject: Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
ISSN: 0361-2333
Year: 2003
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