Introduction / Michael Moon and Cathy N. Davidson 1

Part I.

Letting Go Our Grand Obsessions: Notes Toward a New Literary History of the American Frontiers / Annette Kolodny 9

Oroonoko's Gendered Economies of Honor/Horror: Reframing Colonial Discourses Studies in the Americas / Stephanie Athey and Daniel Cooper Alarcón 27

Race and Sensibility in the Early Republic: Ann Eliza Bleecker and Sarah Wentworth Morton 57

Vanishing Americans: Gender, Empire, and New Historicism / Lora Romero 87

Part II.

Amorous Bondage: Poe, Ladies, and Slaves / Joan Dayan 109

Critiques from Within: Antebellum Projects of Resistance / Maggie Sale 145

Radical Configurations of History in the Era of American Slavery / Russ Castronovo 169

White Slaves: The Mulatto Hero in Antebellum Fiction / Nancy Bentley 195

Part III.

Masculinity and Self-Performance in the Life of Black Hawk / Timothy Sweet 219

Constructing the Black Masculine: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and the Sublimits of African American Autobiography / Maurice Wallace 245

Mark Twain and the Diseases of the Jews / Sander L. Gilman 271

Warring Fictions: Iola Leroy and the Color of Gender / Elizabeth Young 293

"Alien Hands": Kate Chopin and the Colonization of Race / Michele A. Birnbaum 319

Part IV.

"The Direction of the Howling": Nationalism and the Color Line in Absalom, Absalom! / Barbara Ladd 345

Border Subjects and Transnational Sites: Américo Paredes's The Hammon and the Beans and Other Stories / Ramón Saldívar 373

Remodeling the Model Home in Uncle Tom's Cabin and Beloved / Lori Askeland 395

A Zuni Racounteur Dons the Junco Shirt: Gender and Narrative Style in the Story of Coyote and Junco / Siobhan Senier 417

"We Murder Who We Were": Jasmine and the Violence of Identity / Kristen-Carter Sanborn 433

The Queen of American Goes to Washington City: Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, Anita Hill / Lauren Berland 455

The Body Public / Karla F. C. Holloway 481

Index 497

Michael Moon

Annette Kolodny

Stephanie Athey

Lora Romero

Colin Dayan

Maggie Montesinos Sale

Russ Castronovo

Nancy Bentley

Timothy Sweet

Maurice O. Wallace

Sander L Gilman

Elizabeth Young

Michele A. Birnbaum

Barbara Ladd

Ramón Saldívar

Lori Askeland

Lauren Berlant

Karla FC Holloway

Cathy N. Davidson

Daniel Cooper Alarcón

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