Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-237) and index.
Contents
Acknowledgments -- Introduction : Natal nationalism : the place of the child in American cultural studies -- 1. The child and the racial politics of nation making in the slavery era -- 2. Southern fictions and the "race" of nations along the Mexican border -- 3. Consenting fictions, fictions of consent : the child and the nineteenth-century sentimental novel -- 4. Transnational Twain -- 5. Henry James, Pauline Hopkins, and psychologies of race -- 6. Raceless states : W. E. B. Du Bois and Cuba -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.