...Christopher Hanlon Hanlon's essay depicts South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks's 1856 assault on Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner as a flashpoint for 1850s controversies over the laying of transatlantic telegraphic cable between the United States and England. Widely treated by both...

...Mark Rifkin In the spring of 1832, a well-respected Sauk warrior named Black Hawk led a group of Sauks, Foxes, Kickapoos, and Potawatomies across the Mississippi River, through lands formerly occupied by the Sauks. Characterized as an assault on white settlements by U.S. officials during...

... of sexual assault, exploitation at the hands of both their agencies and their employers, and their conflicting attitudes toward domestic service, unionizing, and collectively work- ing to seek redress for wrongs, made the construction of a composite Talking...

...Figure 6 Ellen forced to overcome her sexual assault trauma by having to choose to fight her attacker in I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (Cyberdreams Interactive Entertainment, 1995 ). Screenshot taken by author ...

... the statute to include Celia, her law- yers did. By contrast, the Revised Code of North Carolina, 1854 specifies: “Any slave, or free negro, or free person of color, convicted by due course of law, of an assault with intent to commit a rape, upon the body of a white female, shall suffer...

... Lofton, John Modern, and Michael Warner—the notion that something called “secularization” provides an adequate conceptual framework for the post-Enlightenment movement of bodies and belief, of thought and authority, has come under sustained and multidimensional assault. We have become...

...,” he provides intricate details of the assault on both body and mind. In this assault, memory loses its connection to story and to identity, but it remains in these verbal traces of acute sensory experience. Read in this way, Steinbeck’s dispatch becomes a means, despite the censors’ attempts...

... Quixotism ‘‘contain warnings and injunctions to women about the dangers that lurk outside the domestic realm’’ and point ‘‘to the existence of a rape cul- ture that fosters rape, assault, sexual harassment, and physical and verbal...

...” (131, 130). At the same time, this “primal passion” is characterized by violence, a “rude advance, so robust as to be almost an assault, so violent as to be veritably brutal” (131, 130–31). This contradictory depiction describes “an infinite desire, at once terrible and divine, knowing no law, untamed...

... in the late 1950s, which comics fans know as the silver age, Alaniz demonstrates how the “anxieties and desires of the [post–World War II] age” (20) begin in this moment to assault the previously nigh-invulnerable superhero body. A comparison between the superhero and the “inspirational” figure...

...- ture that fosters rape, assault, sexual harassment, and physical and verbal abuse—the most tragic methods of maintaining women’s compliance to gen- der roles and social expectations’’ (94). Theoretically, the book incorporates...

... that ‘‘the anticommunism of the Right was less immediately responsible for the assault on academic freedom than the positions staked out by the Left’’ (128). The chapter on Sandoz emphasizes this writer’s revision of the frontier of white...

... that ‘‘the anticommunism of the Right was less immediately responsible for the assault on academic freedom than the positions staked out by the Left’’ (128). The chapter on Sandoz emphasizes this writer’s revision of the frontier of white...

... affected postwar culture, even in places where this effect might not be obvious. The deaths in the trenches were also new on an unprecedented scale: bodies were gassed, dismembered, blown into fragments, and lost from sight in the mud and ooze. Pearl argues that this unimaginable assault, largely on male...

... of the Mohicans (chapter 2). Sanborn does a wonderful job of telling Te Ara’s life history, focusing on a key moment when he was flogged on board the British ship Boyd in 1809 after being accused of theft. Shortly thereafter, with the “whipscars” etched onto his back, he led a vengeful assault on the ship...

... assault on citizenship—and not just national citi- zenship, which is the horizon of Samet’s study, but hemispheric notions of identity in the New World. Kazanjian opens up multiple fronts in this battle. Black and white sailors’ narratives from the trans-Atlantic world reveal the underpinnings...

..., and resistance against sexual assault. Obama is no mere image; she is the voice speaking for generations of women worldwide. Involved with somewhat similar concerns shaping black female lives at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class, Drake’s Critical Appropriations opens with Morrison’s...

... insulation, Hanlon shows that “the assault as a form of violent (tele)communication” indicates “a moment of epistemological crisis within a constellation whose coordinates—eloquence and violence, oratory and embodiment, telegraphy and disembodiment— were being recharted in U.S. culture in 1856...

... Charles Sumner with the transatlantic cable between England and the United States made possible by gutta-percha insulation, Hanlon shows that “the assault as a form of violent (tele)communication” indicates “a moment of epistemological crisis within a constellation whose coordinates—eloquence...