In this Issue

Table of Contents

Violent Belongings and the Question of Empire Today Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, Hartford, Connecticut, October 17, 2003

Amy Kaplan
pp. 1-18
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2004.0010
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Response to the Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, Hartford, Connecticut, October 17, 2003

Paul Giles
pp. 19-24
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2004.0004
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Translating Empire: The Border Homeland of Rio Grande City, Texas

José Eduardo Limón
pp. 25-32
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2004.0011
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Edward Said and American Studies

John Carlos Rowe
pp. 33-47
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2004.0013
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Early American Nations as Imagined Communities

Ed White
pp. 49-81
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2004.0014
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Troubling Our Heads about Ichabod: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," Classic American Literature, and the Sexual Politics of Homosocial Brotherhood

David Greven
pp. 83-110
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2004.0006
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Hawaiians on Tour: Hula Circuits Through the American Empire

Adria L. Imada
pp. 111-149
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2004.0009
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A House in the Nation's Attic

Briann G. Greenfield
pp. 151-162
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2004.0005
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Un-bridaled Pageantry; or, Here Comes the Eruption of Queer Desires

Lori Askeland
pp. 163-170
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2004.0001
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How Publics Matter: A Handbook for Alternative World-Making

Jessica Blaustein
pp. 171-181
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2004.0003
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"The Circle of 'We'": The Strange History of American Adoption

Robin Hemenway
pp. 183-192
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2004.0007
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Matter on the Mind

Nancy Bentley
pp. 193-200
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2004.0002
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Visualizing Stories of Time and Place

Steven D. Hoelscher
pp. 201-211
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2004.0008
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From Sit-ins to "Shirt-ins": Why Consumer Politics Matter More than Ever

Kathy M. Newman
pp. 213-221
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2004.0012
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