Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the historical crisis of post-Reconstruction national allegory
  • Speaking American : Henry James and the dialect of modernity
  • The hidden power : domesticity, national allegory, and empire in Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona
  • Blushing brides and soulless corporations : racial formation in María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The squatter and the don
  • Epilogue : decentering national allegory.