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Table of Contents

Pleasure Reading

p. 1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0015
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Hardtack

Hester Blum
pp. 2-6
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0018
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Surfacing (in the Heat of Reading): Is It Like Kissing or Some Other Sex Act?

Kathryn Bond Stockton
pp. 7-13
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0001
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Emerson, Embryology, and Culture

Jennifer J. Baker
pp. 15-39
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0004
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The Civil War’s “Empty Sleeve” and the Cultural Production of Disabled Americans

Colleen Glenney Boggs
pp. 41-65
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0007
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The Wind of Words: Plagiarism and Intertextuality in Of One Blood

Geoffrey Sanborn
pp. 67-87
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0010
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Toward a Genealogy of Americanist Expressionism

Ryan Carr
pp. 89-117
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0013
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Race and Architectural Geometry: Thomas Jefferson’s Octagons

Irene Cheng
pp. 121-130
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0000
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Visualizing Race Science in Benito Cereno

Christine Yao
pp. 130-137
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0003
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Archives of Racial Performance

Alex W. Black
pp. 138-146
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0006
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Visualizing Racial Mixture and Movement: Music, Notation, Illustration

Brigitte Fielder
pp. 146-155
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0009
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Cotton Babies, Mama’s Maybe: Invention, Matter, and Mythology in Kara Walker’s 8 Possible Beginnings

Janet Neary
pp. 156-163
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0012
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Tracking Prehistory

Dana Luciano
pp. 173-181
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0019
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Monstrosity, Colonialism, and the Racial State

Sylvester Johnson
pp. 173-181
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0002
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Whales, Cannibals, and Second Nature

Richard J. Callahan Jr.
pp. 190-197
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0005
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Monstrously Unpositable: Primitive Accumulation and the Aesthetic Arc of Capital

Jordan/a Rosenberg
pp. 197-204
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0008
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Specters of Reason: Kantian Things and the Fragile Terrors of Philosophy

Jason Ānanda Josephson
pp. 204-211
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0011
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Contributor Biographies

pp. 213-217
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0014
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Introduction

Shirley Samuels
pp. 119-121
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0017
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Introduction: Duty Now For The Future

John Lardas Modern
pp. 165-173
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2015.0016
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