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Tables of Contents for Necro Citizenship
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
ix
Preface
xi
Introduction
Democracy's Graveyard
1
24
Ideology and Eternity
Bodies Politic
A Brief Note on (and against) Interdisciplinarity
Political Necrophilia
Freedom and the Longing for Dead Citizenship
25
37
Thinking Against Freedom
Reading the Social Contract: The Fine Print
Give Me Liberty and Death
Killing Off Free Citizens, or The Logic of Political Necrophilia
Strategies of Antifreedom
Blacks and Jews
``The Slavery of Man to Himself''
White Male Sexuality, Self-Reliance, and Bondage
62
39
The Black Man
Self-Abuse or Self-Reliance?
Straight National Politics: Emerson, Sylvester Graham, and Republicanism
``I Recommended Castration'': Managing Sexual Slaves
The Social Origins of the Solitary Vice
Taking Political Pleasure in White Men
Postscript
``That Half-Living Corpse''
Female Mediums, Seances, and the Occult Public Sphere
101
50
Fusing the Unconscious to National Pathology: Hawthorne and Habermas
Mesmerized Citizens and Spiritualist Politics
Ahistorical Performances of Utopia: Brook Farm and Blithedale
The Trance: Women's Privacy as the Performance of Citizenship
A Brief History of Girlhood
Veiled Labor
Zenobia's Corpse
Epitaph
The ``Black Arts'' of Citizenship
Africanist Origins of White Interiority
151
53
What about the Materiality of the Body?
Black Origins of the White Unconscious
Was Lincoln a Spiritualist? Emancipation and Clairvoyance
Ghostwriting
Douglass and the Antislavery Unconscious
Incidents in the (After) life of a Slave Girl
Histories of the Not There
Saying ``Nothing'' about History
De-Naturalizing Citizenship
204
43
Geographies Other Than the National
The Fourteenth Amendment and the Reduction of Subjectivity
``A French Grammar'' and the Remainders of Diaspora
Privacy, Concubines, and Iola Leroy
Violence, Privacy, and the Supreme Court
Frances Harper and the Problem of Dual Citizenship
The Promise of the Counterpublic...and the Return of Hierarchy
Miscegenation without Sex
Afterword
247
4
Notes
251
60
Works Cited
311
26
Index
337