Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity, and Literature Amritjit Singh and Peter Schmidt, editors University Press of Mississippi, Fall 2000 TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Editors’ Introduction to the Essays in this Anthology Identities, Margins, and Borders: I • Amritjit Singh and Peter Schmidt, “On the Borders Between U.S. Studies and Postcolonial Theory.” Topics include: 1. Overview: Posting Borders 2. U.S. Ethnic Studies as the Frontier in the Culture Wars: A Brief History Counternarratives from the "Center" as Well as the "Right" The Significance of the Borders in U.S. Historiography 3. Looking Backward, Moving Forward: Postcolonial Studies in Retrospect Edward Said's Orientalism and Eurocentric Representations The Antecedents of Postcolonial Thought Nativism, Mimicry, Hybridity, Complicity Immigration and Diaspora 4. The Borders School and Postcolonial Theory: New Ethnicities Transnationalism, Diaspora, and Immigration Narratives Feminism, Postcolonialism, and U.S. Studies Postcolonialism and Whiteness Studies The Borders of Globalization Theory Difficult Questions for the Borders School 5. Conclusion Identities, Margins, and Borders: II • Arnold Krupat, “Postcolonialism, Ideology, and Native American Literature” • Mae Henderson, “‘Where, by the way, is this train going?’: A Case for Black (Cultural) Studies” • Rafael Pérez-Torres, “Refiguring Aztlán” • Sau-ling C. Wong, “Denationalization Reconsidered: Asian American Cultural Criticism at a Theoretical Crossroads” Historical Configurations • Maureen Konkle, “Indian Literacy, U.S. Colonialism, and Literary Criticism” • Carla L. Peterson, “Capitalism, Black (Under)development, and the Production of the African-American Novel in the 1850s” • Lawrence Buell, “Postcolonial Anxiety in Classic U.S. Literature” • Amy Kaplan, “Romancing the Empire: The Embodiment of American Masculinity in the Popular Historical Novel of the 1890s” • Anne Fleischmann, "Neither Fish, Flesh, nor Fowl: Race and Region in the Writings of Charles W. Chesnutt" • Kenneth Mostern, “Postcolonialism after W. E. B. Du Bois” Contemporary Contestations • Jana Sequoya Magdaleno, “How (!) Is an Indian? A Contest of Stories, Round 2” • Rhonda Cobham, “Revisioning Our Kumblas: Transforming Feminist and Nationalist Agendas in Three Caribbean Women’s Texts” • Lisa Majaj, “Arab Americans and the Meanings of Race” • Juan Flores, “Broken English Memories: Languages of the Trans-Colony” • Leny Mendoza Strobel, “‘Born Again Filipino’: Filipino American Identity and Asian Panethnicity” • Lavina Dhingra Shankar and Rajini Srikanth, “South Asian American Literature: ‘Off the Turnpike’ of Asian America” • Inés Salazar, “Can You Go Home Again? Transgression and Transformation in African American Women’s and Chicana Literary Practice” • Bruce Simon, "Hybridity in the Americas: Reading Condé, Mukherjee, and Hawthorne"

		The Heart of the Story: Eudora Welty's Short Fiction By Peter Schmidt. Jackson MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1991. 1. The Anxieties of Authorship: Heroines and Women Artists in A Curtain of Green 2. Misogyny and the Medusa's Gaze: Welty's Tragic Tales 3. Rigidity and Rebirth: Eudora Welty and Women's Comedy 4. Sibyls: Eudora Welty and American Women's Literature

		William Carlos Williams, The Arts, and Literary Tradition By Peter Schmidt. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988. 1. Some Versions of Modernist Pastoral: Williams and the Precisionists 2. The Polyphony of Voices: Williams' Cubist Odes 3. The Improvisations: Williams, Dada, and the Theory of Automatic Writing 4. Paterson and Epic Tradition 5. "Listen While I Talk On Against Time": Williams' Late Odes Epilogue: Retrospectives from Brueghel