In this Issue

Table of Contents

On Our Cover

Bird Ghosts, Preservation, Recovery

Brigitte Fielder
pp. 5-19
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2025.a970106
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Field Report

Indigenous Book History Today: Paper Language, Compilation, Paratexts, and Printscapes

Phillip H. Round
pp. 21-35
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2025.a970107
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Essays

The Autobiographer as Detective: Frederick Douglass's Epistemology of Self and Slavery

Maria Ishikawa
pp. 37-67
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2025.a970108
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Disrupting Anti-Blackness: David Walker's Fugitive Inhabitation of an American Grammar

Sam Plasencia
pp. 69-95
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2025.a970109
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Spectacle Islands: Indigeneity, Performance, and the Archipelago in Hope Leslie

Betsy Klima, Len von Morzé
pp. 97-129
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2025.a970110
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A Case in Nevis, 1817

Kathleen Donegan
pp. 131-161
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2025.a970111
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Melville's Idea of a Wife

Rachel Banner
pp. 163-193
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2025.a970112
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Author Bios

pp. 195-196
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2025.a970113
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