Contents
Introduction: On Moving Ground 1 Dana Luciano
Part I: Archives Unbound
1. Confederates in the Hispanic Attic: The Archive against Itself 31 Rodrigo Lazo
2. Historical Totality and the African American Archive 55 Lloyd Pratt
3. Race, Reenactment, and the “Natural-Born Citizen” 76 Tavia Nyong’o
4. Doing Justice to the Archive: Beyond Literature 103 Shelley Streeby
Part II: States of Exception
5. Unsettled Life: Early Liberia’s Epistolary Equivocations 119 David Kazanjian
6. The News at the Ends of the Earth: Polar Periodicals 158 Hester Blum
7. Feeling Like a State: Writing the 1863 New York City Draft Riots 189 Glenn Hendler
8. Impersonating the State of Exception 232 Jonathan Elmer
Part III: Speculative Sexualities
9. Eat, Sex, Race 245 Kyla Wazana Tompkins
10. Connecticut Yankings: Mark Twain and the Masturbating Dude 275 Elizabeth Freeman
11. What Came Before 298 Peter Coviello
P.S.: A Coda 307 Ivy G. Wilson
About the Contributors 315
Index 317