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Witnessing Otherwise in John Gabriel Stedman’s Narrative, of a Five Years’ Expedition

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Kimberly Takahata
American Literature 11792419.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11792419
Published: 07 March 2025
...Kimberly Takahata Abstract In 1796, John Gabriel Stedman’s Narrative, of a Five Years’ Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam was published in London, claiming new insights into the natural world of the colony. Although Stedman generated some reports of Suriname, many of his natural...
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Afterword: The Epistemological Turn in Early American Literary Studies

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Ralph Bauer
American Literature 11845243.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11845243
Published: 07 March 2025
... the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1796) a text that, though cast in the mold of the natural history and designed to pique the reader s naturalist curiosity, in fact frequently offers epistemic lacunae that can be seen as the visible textual traces of invisible acts of Native resistance. In order to reconstruct...
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Introduction: New Directions in the Study of New World Knowledge Making

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Alexander Mazzaferro
American Literature 11845230.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11845230
Published: 07 March 2025
... against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam and outlines an alternative mode of literary analysis that makes a virtue of the text s inability to produce stable knowledge about the region s Indigenous inhabitants. She contends that Stedman overpromises and underdelivers as an eyewitness. In keeping...
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The Man That Was Used Up: Poetry, Particularity, and the Politics of Remembering George Washington

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Max Cavitch
American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 247–274.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-2-247
Published: 01 June 2003
... Chronology vol. 71.9, 30.42, 50; Thomas Pemberton Papers, Box 1, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston. Another example comes from Surinam, where Turell Tufts was (unhappily) stationed as U.S. consul...
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Irving’s Columbus and Hemispheric American History

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Jordan Wingate
American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 463–496.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4160858
Published: 01 September 2017
..., Suriname, French Guiana, and northeastern Brazil. 3 The comment’s proximity to Irving’s 1819 “English Writers on America” ( 2009c )—which calls on people in the United States to form “one nation . . . destitute of national antipathies” and critiques “prejudicial” Englishmen like William Walton who...
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New England's Crises and Cultural Memory: Literature, Politics, History, Religion, 1620-1860

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Laura Henigman
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 177–178.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-075
Published: 01 March 2007
... in Surinam—a narrative sanitized, Sharpe suggests, not only for the sake of Stedman’s public image and individual psychology but also for the main- tenance of white marital relations and practices of middle-class colonial do- mesticity—is effectively revised by an analysis of private diaries and travel...
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American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World; John Burroughs and the Place of Nature; Ecosublime: Environmental Awe and Terror from New World to Oddworld

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Timothy Sweet
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 179–181.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-076
Published: 01 March 2007
... in Surinam—a narrative sanitized, Sharpe suggests, not only for the sake of Stedman’s public image and individual psychology but also for the main- tenance of white marital relations and practices of middle-class colonial do- mesticity—is effectively revised by an analysis of private diaries and travel...
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Creating the Culture of Reform in Antebellum America; Conscience and Purpose: Fiction and Social Consciousness in Howells, Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather

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Elsa Nettels
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 181–183.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-077
Published: 01 March 2007
... Stedman’s 1796 account of maroon re- volt in Surinam—a narrative sanitized, Sharpe suggests, not only for the sake of Stedman’s public image and individual psychology but also for the main- tenance of white marital relations and practices of middle-class colonial do- mesticity—is effectively revised...
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Writing Revolution: Aesthetics and Politics in Hawthorne, Whitman, and Thoreau; Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature; Transatlantic Connections: Whitman U.S., Whitman U.K

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Ellen Weinauer
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 184–186.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-078
Published: 01 March 2007
... in Surinam—a narrative sanitized, Sharpe suggests, not only for the sake of Stedman’s public image and individual psychology but also for the main- tenance of white marital relations and practices of middle-class colonial do- mesticity—is effectively revised by an analysis of private diaries and travel...
View articletitled, Writing Revolution: Aesthetics and Politics in Hawthorne, Whitman, and Thoreau; Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature; Transatlantic Connections: Whitman U.S., Whitman U.K View PDF for article titled, Writing Revolution: Aesthetics and Politics in Hawthorne, Whitman, and Thoreau; Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature; Transatlantic Connections: Whitman U.S., Whitman U.K
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Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Making the “America of Art”: Cultural Nationalism and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers

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Susan Kurjiaka
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 186–188.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-079
Published: 01 March 2007
... Stedman’s 1796 account of maroon re- volt in Surinam—a narrative sanitized, Sharpe suggests, not only for the sake of Stedman’s public image and individual psychology but also for the main- tenance of white marital relations and practices of middle-class colonial do- mesticity—is effectively revised...
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Raising the Dust: The Literary Housekeeping of Mary Ward, Sarah Grand, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Beyond the Gibson Girl: Reimagining the American New Woman, 1895-1915

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Patricia Kalayjian
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 189–191.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-080
Published: 01 March 2007
... Stedman’s 1796 account of maroon re- volt in Surinam—a narrative sanitized, Sharpe suggests, not only for the sake of Stedman’s public image and individual psychology but also for the main- tenance of white marital relations and practices of middle-class colonial do- mesticity—is effectively revised...
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The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s; The Modernist Nation: Generation, Renaissance, and Twentieth-Century American Literature; Split-Gut Song: Jean Toomer and the Poetics of Modernity

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Charles Scruggs
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 191–193.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-081
Published: 01 March 2007
... in Surinam—a narrative sanitized, Sharpe suggests, not only for the sake of Stedman’s public image and individual psychology but also for the main- tenance of white marital relations and practices of middle-class colonial do- mesticity—is effectively revised by an analysis of private diaries and travel...
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Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women's Lives; Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery; Speaking Power: Black Feminist Orality in Women's Narratives of Slavery

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Shawn Salvant
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 194–196.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-082
Published: 01 March 2007
... in Surinam—a narrative sanitized, Sharpe suggests, not only for the sake of Stedman’s public image and individual psychology but also for the main- tenance of white marital relations and practices of middle-class colonial do- mesticity—is effectively revised by an analysis of private diaries and travel...
View articletitled, Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women's Lives; Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery; Speaking Power: Black Feminist Orality in Women's Narratives of Slavery View PDF for article titled, Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women's Lives; Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery; Speaking Power: Black Feminist Orality in Women's Narratives of Slavery
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Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity; Kinds of Blue: The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative

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Mendi Lewis Obadike
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 197–199.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-083
Published: 01 March 2007
... in Surinam—a narrative sanitized, Sharpe suggests, not only for the sake of Stedman’s public image and individual psychology but also for the main- tenance of white marital relations and practices of middle-class colonial do- mesticity—is effectively revised by an analysis of private diaries and travel...
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Lost and Found in Translation: Contemporary Ethnic American Writing and the Politics of Language Diversity; Mulattas and Mestizas: Representing Mixed Identities in the Americas, 1850-2000

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Frederick Luis Aldama
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 199–200.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-084
Published: 01 March 2007
... Stedman’s 1796 account of maroon re- volt in Surinam—a narrative sanitized, Sharpe suggests, not only for the sake of Stedman’s public image and individual psychology but also for the main- tenance of white marital relations and practices of middle-class colonial do- mesticity—is effectively revised...
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Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture; Americans First: Chinese Americans and the Second World War

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Sean Metzger
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 201–203.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-085
Published: 01 March 2007
... in Surinam—a narrative sanitized, Sharpe suggests, not only for the sake of Stedman’s public image and individual psychology but also for the main- tenance of white marital relations and practices of middle-class colonial do- mesticity—is effectively revised by an analysis of private diaries and travel...
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Converging Stories: Race, Ecology, and Environmental Justice in American Literature; Fast Cars and Bad Girls: Nomadic Subjects and Women's Road Stories; Queer Constellations: Subcultural Space in the Wake of the City

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Betsy Klimasmith
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 203–206.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-086
Published: 01 March 2007
... in Surinam—a narrative sanitized, Sharpe suggests, not only for the sake of Stedman’s public image and individual psychology but also for the main- tenance of white marital relations and practices of middle-class colonial do- mesticity—is effectively revised by an analysis of private diaries and travel...
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Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California; Reading the Trail: Exploring the Literature and Natural History of the California Crest

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Merry Ovnick
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 206–208.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-087
Published: 01 March 2007
... Stedman’s 1796 account of maroon re- volt in Surinam—a narrative sanitized, Sharpe suggests, not only for the sake of Stedman’s public image and individual psychology but also for the main- tenance of white marital relations and practices of middle-class colonial do- mesticity—is effectively revised...
View articletitled, Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California; Reading the Trail: Exploring the Literature and Natural History of the California Crest View PDF for article titled, Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California; Reading the Trail: Exploring the Literature and Natural History of the California Crest
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Exploding the Empire: Myths of Empire on the Postmodern Frontier; Spaces of the Mind: Narrative and Community in the American West

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Dan Moos
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 208–210.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-088
Published: 01 March 2007
... in Surinam—a narrative sanitized, Sharpe suggests, not only for the sake of Stedman’s public image and individual psychology but also for the main- tenance of white marital relations and practices of middle-class colonial do- mesticity—is effectively revised by an analysis of private diaries and travel...
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A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought; Paradigms of Paranoia: The Culture of Conspiracy in Contemporary American Fiction

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Caroline Reitz
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 210–212.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-089
Published: 01 March 2007
... Stedman’s 1796 account of maroon re- volt in Surinam—a narrative sanitized, Sharpe suggests, not only for the sake of Stedman’s public image and individual psychology but also for the main- tenance of white marital relations and practices of middle-class colonial do- mesticity—is effectively revised...
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