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... 2000.8.30 14:28 OCV:0 662 American Literature Bad Girls and Sick Boys: Fantasies in Contemporary Art and Culture. By Linda S. Kauffman. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 1998. xii, 328 pp...

...Betsy Klimasmith Duke University Press 2007 Converging Stories: Race, Ecology, and Environmental Justice in American Literature . By Jeffrey Myers. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2005. ix, 188 pp. $39.95. Fast Cars and Bad Girls: Nomadic Subjects and Women's Road Stories...

...John Gennari In her strikingly innovative book, Emre provocatively proposes that the rise and consolidation of American global power in the mid-twentieth century hinged in part on an eruption of “bad” reading. The bad readers Emre spotlights approached American novels, stories, and poems...

... to study restrictions on pornography. These significant changes in culture found their way into a wealth of media including journalism, films, and novels that processed the seemingly contradictory moral claims underlying these policies: greed is good; sex is bad. This article draws on financial...

... the appetites it served are obscured by history and our own taste for cultural politics. One is antebellum sensational literature, which in various forms has been used to examine the “bad attitudes” (racism, nativism, misogyny) of its main audience: large numbers of male workers who migrated to U.S. cities...

...Jordan Alexander Stein This essay posits that scholars interested in studying the history of secularism might avail themselves of the tools attendant upon the study of another well-worn historically important but empirically fraught object: literature. Precisely because secularism is a story—a bad...

... not merely as a bad feeling but as a space of contest between individuality and group belonging, intimately connected to larger political and social narratives. Setting Yates’s stories against midcentury novels by Ralph Ellison and Mary McCarthy, this article reframes American loneliness in light...

...Sarah Rivett Abstract In the Book of Genesis, the raven’s failure to return to Noah’s ark proves his apostasy. Biblical exegetes from Augustine to Jonathan Edwards describe the raven’s bad terrestrial habits: a carnivorous, scavenging nature enables the raven to survive on dead animals washed up...

... a smell enters our bodies and sticks to our clothing—the less we notice it. Smell thus offers naturalist writers an especially effective medium for dramatizing both the uneven distribution of bad air and people’s involuntary—frequently debilitating—responses to airborne particulates. To the extent...

...: naturalist melodramas like The Call of the Wild and The Octopus, Doctorow’s Ragtime (which crosses some of the Godfather’s turf ), and The Sopranos.The analysis roams freely, from a consideration of writing about bad writing...

... itself doing ‘‘what comes naturally renders it a poor translation, containing either too much or too little of the organism that preexisted it, as Wu’s ‘‘release versions’’ throw into stark relief. In this view, the clone is destined to be a bad copy. More important in terms of the ideology of DNA...

... to dominate the natural world through the colonial and scienti c processes of land theft, deforestation, and plantation monoculture. These interlocking processes were repeatedly met with oppositions from those living within its designs, through quotidian anticolonial confrontations. A Refuge for Women of Bad...

... unapologetically attempts to safeguard this contested Civil Rights master narrative. Harris relionizes Martin Luther King Jr. as a folkloric bad man—one flawed, but still heroic—for a twenty-first-century audience skeptical of old-school saints. Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership is an impressive...

... been won already include Ward’s insistence on salvaging mar- ginalized writers such as Melville his reputation has boomed and crashed Poe (who ‘‘has always had a bad press and, more generally, the Puritans (who also ‘‘have often had a bad press Ward covers an impressive range of writers...

... Paula . 1994 . They Must Be Represented: The Politics of Documentary . London : Verso . Reed Brian M. 2004 . “ Carl Sandburg’s The People, Yes, Thirties Modernism, and the Problem of Bad Political Poetry .” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 46 ( 2 ): 181 – 212...

... the Popular (1989) and Henry Jenkins’s Textual Poachers (1992), Michael shows that the disavowal of ‘‘distancing’’ and ‘‘decoding’’ produces a kind of bad-faith ethnography whose bad faith lies precisely in its attempt...

... our familiar notions of Good (or desperately bad) Old Southern White Men telling stories on the porch, protecting white women, and being friends to the Negro. We thus resolved to edit 6363 AMERICAN LITERATURE 73:2 / sheet 6 of 232...

... for the woman who is not invested in self-care or growth but did something because she liked it and was not bad at it. That is the Asian Americanist tale, one occluded by grander stories of legibly successful dissent because it is not shepherded by a masculinized hero. My argument has neither been for a more...

... radical feminist inheritance. SCUM becomes a kind of bad object 6 that is also productive terrain for working out a problem with gender and genre. This kind of bad object can enable theorizing grounded in disidentification and ambivalence. In Females , the violence of SCUM becomes a useful...