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- Abbas I, Shah, 64
- abolitionism, 170, 172, 175
- Ackermann, Rudolph: La Belle Assemblée: or Court and Fashionable Magazine, 62; Repository of Arts, Literatures, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and Politics, 62
- Adams, Abigail, 41
- Adams-Campbell, Melissa, 162
- Adorno, Theodor, 15, 181–184
- Afara, Nour, 164
- affect: asexual, 79–92; Black, 165–176; emancipatory potential of racialized, 165–176; queer, 80–92; white economies of, 173–175. See also happiness
- Ahad-Legardy, Badia, 104
- Ahern, Stephen, 149
- Ahmed, Sara, 104–105, 159n4, 167, 173, 175, 177n30; Living a Feminist Life, 7; On Being Included, 1, 5–6; The Promise of Happiness, 162–163; Queer Phenomenology, 51n20, 131
- Alexander, M. Jacqui, 164
- Alryyes, Ala, 133–134
- ameliorationism, 170–171
- American Revolution, 14, 39, 42–43, 45–46, 49
- Anglin, Emily, 154
- animal husbandry, 139–141
- Aravamudan, Srinivas, 33n1
- archives, eighteenth-century, 11, 15; Indigenous, 45; race-neutral, 159
- Armstrong, Nancy, 177n30
- Arondekar, Anjali, 103–104; “There Is Always More,” 95
- Arvas, Abdulhamit, 6
- Asante, Amma: Belle, 15, 163–176
- asexuality, 11, 14; Black erotics of, 123–124; Black ontologies of, 124; queer friendship and, 79–92; queerness of, 114. See also sexuality
- Austen, Jane, 96–98; Mansfield Park, 56; Northanger Abbey, 101; Pride and Prejudice, 97, 101; Sanditon, 96–97
- Azoulay, Ariella Aïsha, 10
- Bacon, Nathaniel, 21, 23–24, 26–29
- Bacon’s Rebellion, 21, 24, 26
- Baker, Samuel, 120; map of St. Christopher, 121
- Bakhtin, Mikhail, 51n20
- Barker, Joanne, 28
- Bassi, Laura, 102
- Batchelor, Jennie, 147
- Beach, Adam, 33n1
- Becoming Jane (Jarrold), 97
- Behn, Aphra: Oroonoko (novel), 21, 23, 33n1; The Widow Ranter (play), 13, 21–33, 31
- Bell, John, 64
- Bell, Mary Ann, 64, 66
- Bell’s Weekly Messenger, 69
- Bentham, Jeremy, 163
- Berg, Ula, 173, 176n18
- Berkeley, Governor William, 26
- Bertram, Edmund, 57
- Best, Stephen, 103–104
- Binhammer, Katherine, 11
- biopolitics, 24
- biopower, 24
- Black, Christopher Allan, 127n37
- Black, Scott: Without the Novel, 106n11, 106n25
- Black Atlantic, 11
- Blackness, 12, 151, 174; and affect, 165; and Asianness, 149; Crusoe’s primary encounter with, 135; mapping of, 141
- Black women. See women
- Bloch, Ernst, 15, 181–182; The Principle of Hope, 182
- Bly, Mary, 107n28
- Bodenhorn, Barbara, 46
- Borges, Jorge Luis, 134
- Borot, Luc, 22–23
- Bowen, Scarlet, 22
- Brecht, Bertolt, 182
- breeches parts, 26, 36n39
- Bridgerton (Van Dusen), 97–98, 106n12
- Britain: power abroad of, 28; queerness in early nineteenth-century, 98. See also England
- British Slavery Abolition Act (1833), 178n50
- Brody, Jennifer DeVere, 169
- Brooks, Joanna, 49
- Brooks, Lisa, 47
- Brothertown, 45, 47, 49
- brownness, 150–152
- Brummell, Beau, 62, 70
- Burney, Frances, 162
- Bynum, Tara, 163, 173–174
- Byrd, Jodi, 25, 29, 40, 45
- Calvin’s Case (1608), 23
- Campana, Joseph, 135–136, 138
- capitalism: animal husbandry at the scale of industrial, 141; fundamental social relations of late, 181; global expansion of agricultural, 114; maps as management of projective mercantilist, 133; nascent global, 111; production of, 117–118
- Caribbean, 14–15, 113–125
- Carr, Nicole, 128n59
- Catlin, George: Dance to the Berdache (painting), 2
- Cerankowski, KJ, 114, 118
- Chaplin, Sue, 90–91
- Chaskin, Hannah, 22
- Chen, Mel, 117
- Chow, Jeremy, 8, 148, 184
- citation: circulation of, 7; intersectional, 2; praxis of, 1
- citizenship: American, 23; concept of universal, 23; incorporation into, 172; transgender, 21–33
- Coates, Ta-Nahisi, 17n17
- Cole, Alyssa, 96; That Could Be Enough, 100
- Colebrook, Claire, 33, 48
- colonialism: Indigenous experiences under, 52n42; mapping in the age of conquest and, 133; settler, 8, 11–12, 21–33, 45; as subjecting racialized Others to colonial regimes of, 133. See also colonization; imperialism; settler expansion
- coloniality, 4; of being, 9. See also decoloniality
- colonization: and imperial expansion, 23, 183; logics of, 118, 141; and settlement, 18, 184; violence of, 29. See also colonialism; imperialism
- Cooper, Danielle, 80
- corsets, 66–68, 70
- cross-dressing, 13, 24, 27–29, 33; in Restoration theater, 26
- Cummings, Brian, 155
- Cvetkovich, Ann, 80, 108n48
- dandyism, 63, 68–71
- death, 47–48
- Death Book of the Society of Universal Friends, 39–41, 43–45
- DeBaecke, Riley, 148
- decadence, 159n4, 161n65
- Declaration of Independence, The, 165
- decoloniality, 1, 9, 16; feminist, 9; intimacy and, 12; recovery of, 40. See also coloniality
- Defoe, Daniel: Robinson Crusoe, 15, 129–42
- Degooyer, Stephanie, 23
- Dinshaw, Carolyn, 11, 48
- Dominique, Lyndon, 163
- Downes, Melissa K., 131
- dreams, 48–49; decolonial, 180
- Driskill, Qwo-Li, 29
- Eaton, Sara, 33n1
- ecocriticism, 14
- ecologies: asexual, 111–125; racial and sexual difference as the products of, 12
- Edelman, Lee, 116
- Edelson, S. Max, 133
- Edgeworth, Maria, 55–57, 59, 62–63, 71, 162; Belinda (novel), 37n68, 79, 162
- Elmer, Jonathan, 33n1
- embodiments: settler colonialism with whiteness and queer, 18n43, 33; racial, 9, 49, 147–159, 166
- England, 15; Regency, 55–71, 96–98. See also Britain
- Enlightenment, 8
- enslavement: of African labor, 111, 114–122, 124, 127n37; complicity with, 171; ; fugitive persons of, 114; grieving Black, 13; systems of, 166. See also slavery
- epistemologies: global Indigenous, 11; structures of onto-epistemological humanity, 165; white supremacist, 176n18
- equestrian, 62–63
- erotic autonomy, 164, 172. See also happiness
- erotics: of compostability, 119–123; of nonrelation, 132–133, 137–142; queer, 132–142. See also homoeroticism; sexuality
- ethics: of compost, 128n48; environmental, 12
- eugenics, 111
- Faderman, Lillian: Surpassing the Love of Men, 80
- fairy tales, 69, 181–182
- Farr, Jason, 160n31
- fashion: cross-dressing, 69; female, 55–71
- Fath ‘Ali Shah, 14, 55, 58
- Female American, The (Winkfield), 28
- femininity: able-bodied, 69; eccentric, 62; foreign ideals of beautiful, 66; ideals of white, 29, 67, 70, 172–173; racialized labor and idle, 149–150, 156–158. See also women
- feminism, 80; Black, 128n58, 165–166; decolonial, 9; romance readers’ embrace of, 107n28. See also women
- Ferguson, Margaret, 30
- Ferguson, Roderick, 8
- fictional travel literature, 132
- Fielding, Theodore Henry: “No. [1, 2] of a Series of Views in the West Indies” (engraving), 122
- film, 163, 171–176
- Fludernik, Monika, 154
- Foucault, Michel, 25, 35n22
- Frangos, Jennifer, 22, 34n4
- Franta, Andrew: Systems Failure, 134
- Freeman, Elizabeth, 41; Beside You in Time, 7
- Freud, Sigmund: Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, 126n14
- friendship: companionate, 88; queer, 14, 79–92
- Frye, Northrop, 101
- Fryke, Christopher, 149
- Gallagher, Catherine, 104
- Gamble, Joseph, 22
- Garcia, Humberto, 151
- gender: colonial racialization of, 49; early American norms of, 14; European ideals of, 71; illusory nature of, 26; nonconformity of, 62; racialized, 132; representations of, 10; tenuous binaries of, 26–27. See also sexuality; transness
- genocide, 25
- geography: Black, 170–171; feminist and queer, 134
- George III, King, 55–56, 58, 63
- George IV, King, 56
- Gerzina, Gretchen, 97, 149
- Getsy, David, 22, 33
- Giffney, Noreen, 125n6
- Gilmore, John, 126n19
- Gilmore, Ruth Wilson, 175
- girdles, 66
- Given, Tess, 5
- Goldberg, Jonathan, 6
- Grainger, James: The Sugar Cane (poem), 15, 111–125
- Gregori, Flavio, 162
- Grimaldi, Joseph, 69–70
- Grimaldi, Joseph Samuel William, 69
- Guilmette, Lauren, 166
- Gumbs, Alexis Pauline, 12
- Gupta, Kristina, 81
- Haggerty, George: Queer Friendship, 79
- Halberstam, Jack, 100, 107n37
- Hall, Alexis, 96
- Hall, Cailey, 162
- Hall, Radclyffe: The Well of Loneliness, 99
- Hall, Thomas/Thomasine, 22
- Halperin, David: One Hundred Years of Homosexuality, 11
- Hanson, Elizabeth Hanna, 82, 87
- happiness, 162–176; as affect, 164–176; Blackened, 163–166, 169–176; colonial politics of the promise of, 165; coloring contingent, 166–169; conditional, 173–174; domestic, 170–171, 173; façade of universal, 163, 175; infantine, 170; spatial, 174–176. See also affect; erotic autonomy
- Harlequin and Cinderella; or, the Little Glass Slipper (pantomime), 58, 68–70
- Hartman, Saidiya, 11, 171, 177n34
- Harvey, Karen, 149
- Herschel, Caroline, 102
- heteronormativity, 4, 5, 70; of colonial records, 7, 43; of hetero-domestic marriage, 97, 163–176
- heteropatriarchy, 10
- heterosexuality: cisgender, 114; compulsory, 22, 117; and monogamy, 33; and reproductive futurity, 32, 116; romance novels and, 107n28; as system, 131. See also sexuality
- heterotopia, 24–26
- Hiatt, Megan, 147
- hierarchies: emergent racialized sexual, 135; patriarchal, 85; sex-gender, 140
- Hird, Myra J., 125n6
- Histories of Some of the Penitents in the Magdalen-House, as Supposed to be Related by Themselves, The (fictionalized collection of memoirs), 15, 147–154, 159n2
- homoeroticism, 117–118, 135. See also erotics
- homonationalism, 34n5
- homonormativity, 4, 5, 105
- Hong, Cathy Park, 164
- Howitt, Samuel: “Ladies Evening or Opera Dress” (engraving), 65
- Huang, Kristina, 168
- Huggins, Sofia Prado, 164, 169, 171
- Human Rights Campaign (HRC), 35n27
- Hunt, Sarah, 11
- hypervisibility, 155
- identities: assumptions made about asexuality and related queer, 92n9; Indigenous nonbinary and transgender, 13
- ideologies, 180; of bootstrapping, 157; of race and empire, 62, 184; racial, 51n10, 150
- imperialism, 33, 184; British colonialism and, 131; history of European, 183. See also colonialism; colonization
- Indigenous peoples, 4, 28; Algonquian, 46–49; Cherokee, 29; Chumash, 52n42; colonial laws and treaties erasing the sovereignty of, 45–46, 49; Cree, 2; displacement of, 13–14, 42, 47; Doeg, 26; dogs and wolves in the cultures of Northeast, 48, 53n64; Esselen, 52n42; Haudenosaunee, 42–43, 45; land theft from, 14; Mattaponi, 21; Mohawk, 43; Mohegan, 45, 47; Montauk, 46, 49; Narragansett, 42; obliteration of, 32, 46–47; Oneida, 49; oral traditions of, 12; Pamunkey, 21, 26; perspectives on non-normative personhood of, 39; Powhatan, 21, 36n51; Seneca, 43; Stockbridge-Munsee, 49; Susquehannock, 26; Wampanoag, 42. See also Native Americans
- intimacies, 9–13; biographical, 66; Indigenous, 13; as methodology, 114; queering of Indigenous, 46; settler regulations of, 49; soil, 119–125
- Iran, 155
- Kafantaris, Mira Assaf, 98
- Kaul, Suvir, 30
- Kay, John, 59, 61
- Kelleher, Paul, 81, 140; “A Table in the Wilderness,” 139
- Khoikhoi peoples, 149–150
- Kim, Sue J., 164
- King, Tiffany Lethabo, 2, 12, 40, 129, 141–142, 144n46, 166
- King Philip’s War (1675–76), 42
- Klein, Ula Lukszo, 162
- Kocher, Ziona, 5, 114, 162
- Kramer, Kaley, 90
- Kristeva, Julia, 136
- La Belle Assemblée, 57, 64, 66, 69; “A Portrait of Delarom” (stipple with engraving), 67
- labor: affective, 154–156, 161n69; of beautification, 155; domestic, 156–157; eighteenth-century conceptions of, 148–149; racialized, 149–159; valid or invalid types of, 15, 150. See also sex work
- Lady’s Magazine, The, 61
- LaFleur, Greta, 12
- Lanser, Susan S.: The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 11, 80
- Larson, Scott, 42
- Lee, Ann, 41
- Lee, Wendy Anne, 81
- Lennox, Charlotte, 162; The Female Quixote, 101
- Levellers, 23
- Linnaeus, Carl, 111
- Lloyd, Vincent, 51n10
- London, 147–159, 168, 174
- Lorde, Audre, 128n58, 161n69, 164
- Love, Heather: Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory, 11
- Lowe, Lisa, 114; The Intimacies of Four Continents, 10
- Lubey, Kathleen, 174
- Lubrin, Canisia: “Dream #29” (poem), 184
- Lugones, María, 9
- Lupton, Christina, 82, 87, 148, 153, 158, 160n36
- Lush, Rebecca, 29
- Mahmood, Saba: Politics of Piety, 74n48
- Manion, Jen, 6; Female Husbands: A Trans History, 99, 102
- maps: colonial spatializing logics, 141; fictionalized, 15, 129–142; as management of capitalism, 133; “A map of the world, on which is delineated the voyages of Robinson Cruso [sic],” 130
- marginalia, 7
- marriage, 14–15, 69–71, 79; as compulsory sexuality, 82–92, 167; eighteenth-century legal reform of, 162; financial advantages of, 99, 167, 172; happiness within the structures of heteronormative, 175; monogamous heterosexual, 57, 71, 90, 97, 102; as patriarchal system, 86, 99, 172; rise of companionate, 81, 83, 97, 107n32. See also sexuality
- Marx, Karl, 119
- masculinity: elite Persian, 59, 70; genteel British, 56, 70; racialized, 56
- McGurl, Mark, 107n32
- McKittrick, Katherine, 12, 166, 170; Dear Science and Other Stories, 7
- McMahon, William, 123–124; survey map of St. Kitts, 123
- Menon, Madhavi, 6, 44
- Middle Passage, queer imaginings of the, 12
- Mignolo, Walter, 9
- Milan, Courtney, 96
- Milks, Megan, 114
- Miller, D. A., 97
- Miller, Derrick R., 48
- Miller, M. A., 5, 164
- Miranda, Deborah, 13, 52n42
- Mirza Abul Hassan Khan, 14, 55–59, 60, 61–64, 66, 69–71, 75n69
- Miss Austen Regrets (Lovering), 97
- modernity: colonial, 8, 9; European, 57
- Mohegan Indians v. Connecticut (1705–1773), 45
- Monkman, Kent: Welcoming the Newcomers (mural), 2, 3, 4, 7
- More, Thomas: Utopia, 183, 185n8
- Morgan, Dawn, 25
- Morgan, Jennifer, 12, 166
- Morgensen, Scott Lauria, 40
- Morning Post, 59, 61
- Morris, Robert, 43
- Morrisseau, Norval, 8
- Moten, Fred, 41
- mourning, 13
- Mowry, Melissa, 24, 35n17
- Moyer, Paul B., 42
- Muñoz, José Esteban: Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, 2, 5, 41, 99, 104, 182
- Mustakeem, Sowande’ M., 149
- Najmabadi, Afsaneh, 57, 155
- narrative: as queer union, 90–92; transness as a racial, 25. See also novels
- nationalism, 24
- nationality, 26
- Native Americans: tobacco and, 25; two-spirit, 2, 12, 16n3, 52n42. See also Indigenous peoples
- Nelson, Melissa K., 12
- Ngai, Sianne, 164, 181
- Nicolazzo, Sal, 8
- novels: eighteenth-century proto-feminist, 98; epistolary, 167–169; epistolary fiction and romance, 14, 79–92; happiness in eighteenth-century, 162–176; mid-eighteenth-century conduct books and, 87; queer historical romance, 95–105; queer romance, 13–14, 105n4; romance, 97–99, 101–102, 106n11, 106n19, 107n28, 107n32; sentimental, 83. See also narrative
- Palmer, Tyrone, 165, 174
- Peiser, Megan, 8
- Perrault, Charles: “Cendrillon,” 69
- Perry, Imani, 166
- Peterkin, Joshua: A Treatise on Planting, 111, 113
- philosophy: “common sense” in eighteenth-century British, 16n9; eighteenth-century literature and, 81
- Pickering, Timothy, 43
- Pinkerton, John, 120
- plantation economy, 113–125; development of monocrop production within the, 115–120, 123–124; emergence of homoeroticism out of the transatlantic slave trade and, 117. See also slavery
- Pocahontas mythology, 26
- poetry, English pastoral, 117
- political economy, 174
- Pope, Alexander: An Essay on Man, 165
- popular culture, 96–98
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Sciamma), 99
- Przybylo, Ela, 80
- race, 5, 23, 26; eighteenth-century formations of, 148–159; emergent character of, 151; representations of, 10; well-born, 32. See also racism
- racism, 96–97; ideologies of, 150. See also race; white supremacy
- Radcliffe, Ann, 162
- Radway, Janice: Reading the Romance, 101–102
- Rae-Prescott, Amanda, 96–97
- Raleigh, Sir Walter: The Discoverie of Guiana, 29
- Rambuss, Richard, 48
- Ramos-Zayas, Ana, 173, 176n18
- Rancière, Jacques, 100
- Ranters, 26
- Reed, Jennifer, 168
- Reeves, James Bryan, 158
- Regis, Pamela, 101
- religious dissenters, 23, 26
- resilience, 157
- resistance: Black fugitivity and Indigenous, 141; to discourses of racial and national hegemony, 25; erotic, 12; human and more-than-human, 12
- Restoration era, theater of the, 26, 30
- Rich, Adrienne, 80
- Richard, Analiese, 174
- Richardson, Robbie, 28
- Richardson, Samuel, 162; Clarissa, 79, 81, 85; Pamela, 81, 97, 101
- Rifkin, Mark, 6, 7, 9, 32, 40
- Roach, Joseph, 47, 58
- romanticism, 1, 24
- Rosenberg, Gabriel: “How Meat Changed Sex,” 141
- Rosenberg, Jordy: Confessions of the Fox, 95, 108n46
- Rosenthal, Laura J., 149
- Rossini, Gioachino: La Cenerentola (opera), 69–70
- Rowlandson, Mary, 42
- Rubin, Gayle, 63
- Rusert, Brit, 115
- Rycroft, Eleanor, 59
- saccade, 132, 134, 136–138, 140–142
- Sagay, Misan, 171, 175, 176n12
- Sampsonia, Teresa, 64
- Sapphic Crossings (Klein), 24
- Sargent Murray, Judith, 41
- satire, 22, 67–68; cross-dressing, 70
- Savery, William, 43
- Saxton, Kirsten T., 22
- Sciamma, Céline, 99
- Scott, Sarah: Millenium Hall, 79, 89, 98, 147, 160n31
- Sebastian, Cat, 96
- Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, 57, 80; Between Men, 85
- Seeman, Erik R., 46
- sentimentality, 166
- settler expansion, 8, 11–12, 21–33, 45, 183. See also colonialism
- sexism, 9
- sexuality: colonial logics of sex and, 141; compulsory, 6, 14, 80–92, 92n6; early American, 14, 41; environmental, 12, 14; Islamicate, 70–71; racialized, 5, 147–159; realities of female, 86–87; representations of, 10. See also asexuality; erotics; gender; heterosexuality; marriage; queerness
- sex work: as non-work, 153; racialized, 15, 147–159. See also labor
- Shakers, 41
- Shakespeare, William: Twelfth Night (play), 37n66
- Sharpe, Christina, 11
- Sheridan, Frances: The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, 11, 14, 79–92, 93n18
- Shirley, Robert, 64
- Silva, Cristobal, 116–117
- Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake, 10
- Sinanan, Kerry, 168, 170
- slavery, 25, 149; British practice of selling enslaved Africans, 128n49; French West Indies slave plantations, 69; Portuguese slaving vessel, 137; transatlantic slave trade, 66, 151, 170, 172. See also enslavement; plantation economy
- Snook, Edith, 25
- Snorton, C. Riley: Black on Both Sides, 25, 33, 40, 144n46
- Society of Universal Friends, 42–43, 49
- “Something’s Missing: A Discussion between Ernst Bloch and Theodor W. Adorno on the Contradictions of Utopian Longing” (Bloch and Adorno), 181–184
- Southcott, Joanna, 41
- space: Black, 129; Enlightenment measures of time and, 184; Indigenous, 129; noncolonial, 129; queer, 131–142
- Spacks, Patricia Meyer, 84, 90
- Spillers, Hortense, 11, 40, 119, 166
- Stewart, Carol, 84–85
- Stewart, Susan: On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection, 180
- sugarcane, 111–125, 112; colonial propagation of, 115; cisgender and heterosexual rhetoric for describing the production of, 113, 117; intimacies of the cultivation of, 115–116; queer erotics of, 116–119
- Sullivan, General John, 45
- time: Enlightenment measures of space and, 184; racialized, 147–159; slowed, 149; straight, 2; Western understandings of, 11
- Times, The, 63
- Tinsley, Omise’eke Natasha, 12
- tobacco, 25, 28
- Todd, Janet, 37n60
- tokenization, 167–168
- trans doubling, 24–26, 35n24. See also transness
- transexion, 22
- transgender citizenship. See citizenship
- Trans Historical: Gender Plurality before the Modern (LaFleur, Raskolnikov, and Kłosowska), 22
- transness: as racialized category, 25, 29, 33; and reproducing empire, 30–33; transfeminate, 22. See also gender; trans doubling
- transparency, 124–125; as an environmental concept, 125
- Traub, Valerie, 6
- Tristram Shandy (Sterne), 134
- Tsing, Anna, 122, 126n14
- Turley, Hans, 138, 143n16
- Turner, J.M.W.: The Slave Ship (painting), 2
- Wagner, Sydnee, 29
- Waite, Olivia: The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics, 14, 96, 98–99, 102–105, 106n14
- Walsh, Catherine E., 9
- Washington Post, 101
- Weinbaum, Alys Eve, 171
- Wheeler, Roxann, 151
- Whitefield, George, 48–49; “Christ the Best Husband,” 48
- whiteness, 4, 16, 23, 131; British imperialism and, 33; ideals of, 150–151, 155; as racial category, 32
- white supremacy, 8, 25, 165. See also racism
- Wichelns, Kathryn, 22
- Wilde, Oscar, 99
- Wilderson, Frank, 167, 177n34
- Wilkinson, A. B., 151
- Wilkinson, Jemima (Public Universal Friend), 38–43
- Williams, Charles, 67; “British Graces, Attireing the Circassian Venus in the English Costume” (engraving), 67–68, 68
- Williamson, Margaret Holmes, 36n51
- Wise, Steven, 178n73
- Wollstonecraft, Mary: Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman, 98
- Woman of Colour, The (Anonymous), 13, 15, 148, 163–176, 176n19
- women: the aging of, 158; Black, 12, 15, 168; Circassian, 56, 62–70, 74n54; erasure of Indigenous, 28; imperialist accounts of Indigenous, 29–30; as loud-mouthed and sexually liberated, 26–27; mixed-race, 13, 15, 163, 168, 172, 175; social value of the virginity of, 156; trans Black, 35n27. See also femininity; feminism
- Woodard, Vincent, 117
- Woods, Clyde, 170
- Wynter, Sylvia, 12, 143n21, 166; “Novel and History, Plot and Plantation,” 124
- Yao, Xine, 166
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