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Race and Time
RACE AND TIME
American Women’s Poetics from
Antislavery to Racial Modernity
By Janet Gray
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS
IOWA CITY
University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242
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Excerpts from “Publication–is the auction” and “The Malay–took the pearl” by Emily
Dickinson are reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst
College from
The Poems of Emily Dickinson
, Thomas H. Johnson, ed., Cambridge,
Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, copyright © 1951, 1955, 1979 by
the President and fellows of Harvard College.
The publication of this book was generously supported by the University of Iowa
Foundation.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gray, Janet Sinclair, 1948–
Race and time: American women’s poetics from antislavery to racial
modernity / Janet Gray.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-87745-877-4 (cloth)
1. American poetry—Women authors—History and criticism. 2. Race in literature.
3. Literature and history—United States—History—19th century. 4. Women and liter-
ature—United States—History—19th century. 5. American poetry—19th century—
History and criticism. 6. Antislavery movements in literature. 7. African Americans in
literature. 8. Race relations in literature. 9. Slavery in literature. I. Title.
PS310.R34G73 2003
811'.3099287—dc22 2003060383
04 05 06 07 08 c 54321
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