Mark Twain and the Diseases of the Jews

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I
5. Letting Go Our Grand Obsessions: Notes Toward a New Literary History of the American Frontiers 9
6. Oroonoko's Gendered Economies of Honor/Horror: Reframing Colonial Discourses Studies in the Americas 27
7. Race and Sensibility in the Early Republic: Ann Eliza Bleecker and Sarah Wentworth Morton 57
8. Vanishing Americans: Gender, Empire, and New Historicism 87
9. Part II
10. Amorous Bondage: Poe, Ladies, and Slaves 109
11. Critiques from Within: Antebellum Projects of Resistance 145
12. Radical Configurations of History in the Era of American Slavery 169
13. White Slaves: The Mulatto Hero in Antebellum Fiction 195
14. Part III
15. Masculinity and Self-Performance in the Life ofBlack Hawk 219
16. Constructing the Black Masculine: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and the Sublimits of African American Autobiography 245
17. Mark Twain and the Diseases of the Jews 271
18. Warring Fictions: lola Leroy and the Color of Gender 293
19. "Alien Hands": Kate Chopin and the Colonization of Race 319
20. Part IV
21. "The Direction of the Howling": Nationalism and the Color Line in Absalom, Absalom! 345
22. Border Subjects and Transnational Sites: Americo Paredes's The Hammon and the Beans and Other Stories 373
23. Remodeling the Model Home in Uncle Tom's Cabin and Beloved 395
24. A Zuni Raconteur Dons the Junco Shirt: Gender and Narrative Style in the Story of Coyote and Junco 417
25. "We Murder Who We Were": Jasmine and the Violence of Identity 433
26. The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, Anita Hill 455
27. The Body Politic 481
28. Index 497