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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.
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.