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Tables of Contents for National Imaginaries, American Identities
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Contributors
xiii
Introduction American Cultural Iconography
3
26
Larry J. Reynolds
PART ONE: BETWEEN IMAGE AND NARRATIVE: FIGURING AMERICAN COLLECTIVITY
29
110
Seeing and Believing: Hawthorne's Reflections on the Daguerreotype in The House of the Seven Gables
31
21
Alan Trachtenberg
Nuclear Pictures and Metapictures
52
31
Bryan C. Taylor
Pittsburgh at Yellowstone: Old Faithful and the Pulse of Industrial America
83
21
Gecelia Tichi
Melville, Garibaldi, and the Medusa of Revolution
104
35
Dennis Berthold
PART TWO: REPRESENTATIONAL FRAMEWORKS AND THEIR OTHERS: THE POLITICS OF RACIALIZED GENDER AND SEXUALITY
139
90
Miscegenated America: The Civil War
141
18
Shirley Samuels
The Whiteness of Film Noir
159
23
Eric Lott
``Are We Men?'': Prince Hall, Martin Delany, and the Masculine Ideal in Black Freemasonry, 1775-1865
182
29
Maurice Wallace
Unseemly Commemoration: Religion, Fragments, and the Icon
211
18
Jenny Franchot
Tex-Sex-Mex: American Identities, Lone Stars, and the Politics of Racialized Sexuality
229
Jose E. Limon