Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; 1. Wrappings: A Methodological Introduction; 2. Contesting the Pearl: Whiteness, Blackness, and the Possessionof American Poetry2; II ANTEBELLUM; 3. "Skins May Differ": Women's Republicanism and the Poeticsof Abolitionism; 4. The Mummy Returns: Humor, Kinship, and the Bindings of Print; III POSTBELLUM; 5. Looking in the Glass: Sarah Piatt's Poetics of Play and Loss; 6. We Women Radicals: Frances Harper's Poetics of Racial Formation; 7. What One Is Not Was: Mary Eliza Tucker Lambert's Poetics ofSelf-Reconstruction.