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Tables of Contents for Postcolonial Theory and the United States
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
Introduction
xi
I: Identities, Margins, and Borders
On the Borders Between U.S. Studies and Postcolonial Theory 3
Amrjit Singh
Peter Schmidt
II: Identities, Margins, and Borders
Postcolonialism, Ideology, and Native American Literature
73
22
Arnold Krupat
``Where, By the Way, Is This Train Going?'': A Case for Black (Cultural) Studies
95
8
Mae G. Henderson
Refiguring Aztlan
103
19
Rafael Perez-Torres
Denationalization Reconsidered: Asian American Cultural Criticism at a Theoretical Crossroads
122
29
Sau-ling C. Wong
Historical Configurations
Indian Literacy, U.S. Colonialism, and Literary Criticism
151
25
Maureen Konkle
Capitalism, Black (Under) development, and the Production of the African-American Novel in the 1850s
176
20
Carla L. Peterson
Postcolonial Anxiety in Classic U.S. Literature
196
24
Lawrence Buell
Romancing the Empire: The Embodiment of American Masculinity in the Popular Historical Novel of the 1890s
220
24
Amy Kaplan
Neither Fish, Flesh, Nor Fowl: Race and Region in the Writings of Charles W. Chesnutt
244
14
Anne Fleischmann
Postcolonialism after W. E. B. Du Bois
258
21
Kenneth Mostern
Contemporary Contestations
How (!) Is an Indian? A Contest of Stories, Round 2
279
21
Jana Sequoya Magdaleno
Revisioning Our Kumblas: Transforming Feminist and Nationalist Agendas in Three Caribbean Women's Texts
300
20
Rhonda Cobbam
Arab-Americans and the Meanings of Race
320
18
Lisa Subair Majaj
Broken English Memories: Languages of the Trans-Colony
338
11
Juan Flores
``Born-Again Filipino'': Filipino American Identity and Asian Panethnicity
349
21
Leny Mendoza Strobel
South Asian American Literature: ``Off the Turnpike'' of Asian America
370
18
Lavina Dhingra Shankar
Rajini Srikanth
Can You Go Home Again?: Transgression and Transformation in African-American Women's and Chicana Literary Practice
388
24
Ines Salazar
Hybridity in the Americas: Reading Conde, Mukherjee, and Hawthorne
412
33
Bruce Simon
Contributors
445
6
Name Index
451
14
Subject Index
465