Subjects and Citizens

Michael Moon is Associate Professor of English at Duke University and Associate Editor of American Literature. He is the author of Disseminating Whitman: Revision and Corporeality in "Leaves of Grass." Cathy N. Davidson is Professor of English at Duke University and Editor of American Literature. She is the author of numerous books, including Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America.

"This superb collection demonstrates the exciting new work being done in American literary history and criticism. Its many wide-ranging, richly detailed contributions are certain to shape and extend cultural and political debates about race, class, gender, and American nationhood. Subjects and Citizens is among the best books of critical and cultural studies I have read."-William E. Cain, Wellesley College

• Introduction / Michael Moon and Cathy N. Davidson 1Part I. Letting Go Our Grand Obsessions: Notes Toward a New Literary History of the American Frontiers / Annette Kolodny 9Oroonoko's Gendered Economies of Honor/Horror: Reframing Colonial Discourses Studies in the Americas / Stephanie Athey and Daniel Cooper AlarcÓn 27Race and Sensibility in the Early Republic: Ann Eliza Bleecker and Sarah Wentworth Morton 57Vanishing Americans: Gender, Empire, and New Historicism / Lora Romero 87Part II. Amorous Bondage: Poe, Ladies, and Slaves / Joan Dayan 109Critiques from Within: Antebellum Projects of Resistance / Maggie Sale 145Radical Configurations of History in the Era of American Slavery / Russ Castronovo 169White Slaves: The Mulatto Hero in Antebellum Fiction / Nancy Bentley 195Part III. Masculinity and Self-Performance in the Life of Black Hawk / Timothy Sweet 219Constructing the Black Masculine: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and the Sublimits of African American Autobiography / Maurice Wallace 245Mark Twain and the Diseases of the Jews / Sander L. Gilman 271Warring Fictions: Iola Leroy and the Color of Gender / Elizabeth Young 293"Alien Hands": Kate Chopin and the Colonization of Race / Michele A. Birnbaum 319Part IV. "The Direction of the Howling": Nationalism and the Color Line in Absalom, Absalom! / Barbara Ladd 345Border Subjects and Transnational Sites: AmÉrico Paredes's The Hammon and the Beans and Other Stories / RamÓn SaldÍvar 373Remodeling the Model Home in Uncle Tom's Cabin and Beloved / Lori Askeland 395A 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 433The Queen of American Goes to Washington City: Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, Anita Hill / Lauren Berland 455The Body Public / Karla F. C. Holloway 481Index 497