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• W2048079432 abstract "Reviewed by: Empowering Words: Outsiders and Authorship in Early America by Karen Weyler Gina Rivera Empowering Words: Outsiders and Authorship in Early America. By Karen Weyler. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2013. Among the most prominent topics in American Studies are those with resonance for early Americanists: the ramifications of colonialism, the legacy of slavery and indenture, and the status of gender in historical meditations on public virtue. Karen Weyler addresses these and other enigmatic themes from the perspective of early modern outsider authors: the poets, printers, editors, artisans, and aspirants whose means of actualizing their public personae were never necessarily a simple matter of setting pen to paper. Phillis Wheatley, now celebrated as an early American poet of great skill and insight, made sense of authorship as an accession to knowledge of literary genres and their manipulation. She lived what Weyler calls a dualistic existence as acculturated to whiteness and Christianity and yet wholly unlike her audiences in New England. While her reliance on elegiac writing ensured her place in period discourses that drew significantly on faith, evangelism, and other topoi, her elegies also maintained her status as a complicated authorial and racial figure in an equally complex public sphere (57). As Weyler points out, Wheatley is a fascinating figure not least for the ways in which she rendered gender fungible, standing for the potentiality of Africans and African Americans male or female (68). Deborah Sampson, who masqueraded as an enlisted male solider in the Revolution, challenged early Republican paradigms of authorship on separate terms, seizing control of her celebrity status by refashioning notions of masculine and feminine virtue (145). In instances in which male intermediaries and authorial collaborators spoke for Sampson [End Page 239] herself, her own understanding of the performative nature of gender as well as of the power of oration was nevertheless publically recognized. The several outsider men whose lives as literate cultural agents limned some of the same complexities are on display here amid close, critical readings of period sources both iconographic and textual. Weyler considers the captivity narratives of Briton Hammon and John Marrant as intricate interrogations of the nature of orality: of what it meant to ferry their personal testimonies into print and subsequently into the cosmopolitan, international market of the London press (78). Weyler succeeds perhaps most compellingly in narrating the literary legacy of the ordained minister and Mohegan Indian Samuel Occom, a man in his own words plagued by the burden of suffering anything he had written to appear in print, potentially exposing his ignorance to the world (114). That sense of doubt was offset by the considerable skill with which Occom negotiated two cultural poles: the New England Christian theocracy and his own vision of what Weyler calls a radically hospitable Christianity that embraced individuals of all races and social classes. Attentive to questions of print media, ephemerality, genre, collaborative authorship, and sponsorship, Weyler herself negotiates the literate dynamics of these early Republican outsiders with considerable sensitivity. Those readers familiar with her Intricate Relations: Sexual and Economic Desire in American Fiction, 1789–1814 (2005) will recognize the same deft attention to archival sources and empathetic readings of secondary scholarship here. Gina Rivera Harvard University Copyright © 2014 Mid-America American Studies Association" @default.
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