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CONTENTS list of Figures ix acknowledgments xi introduction 1 PART I: LOCATING MATERIAL TRACES IN THE ARCHIVES 1 labor and Ownership in the american south 15 2 the mystery of their union 36 3 strange incursions into medical science at the mütter museum 58 PART II: READING LITERATURE AND VISUAL CULTURES 4 late-nineteenth-Century visions of Conflict and Consensus 81 5 asian americans Bare/Bear the hyphen 100 6 disciplining and normalizing the Woman subject in Contemporary literature and Film 120 PART III: OBSERVING AND PARTICIPATING 7 Our esteemed ancestors 145 epilogue: alone or together? 171 notes 175 index 197 ...

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