Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: fail in originality, succeed in imitation
  • The new republic's two frontiers: redface desire, European mimicry, and Edgar Huntly
  • Localizing the early republic: Washington Irving and blackface culture
  • Cooper's Anglo-Saxon masquerade: redface, whiteface, and the pioneers
  • Blackface minstrelsy and the making of African American selfhood in Uncle Tom's cabin
  • Melville's (inter)national burlesque: whiteface, blackface, and "Benito Cereno"
  • Blackface violence and the early African American novel
  • Epilogue: absorbing mimesis.