Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-138) and index.
Contents
Race and nation in nineteenth-century interracial fictions -- 1. The Last of the Mohicans or the First of the Mulattos? slavery and native American removal in Cooper's American frontier -- 2. A land without names: national anxiety in The slave; or, Memoirs of Archy Moore -- 3. Reconstructing America in Lydia Maria Child's A romance of the republic and Frances E. W. Harper's Minnie's sacrifice -- 4. Doubles in Eden in George Washington's cable's The grandissimes -- 5. "I will gladly share with them my richer heritage": schoolteachers in Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy and Charles Chestnutt's Mandy Oxendine -- Formulating a national self.
