...Eden Osucha Duke University Press 2006 Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism . By Madhu Dubey. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2003. ix, 284 pp. Paper, $22.00. Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity . By E. Patrick Johnson. Durham, N.C...

... figures through the lens of satire, both novels denounce black exceptionalism as a necropolitical tool of oppression that entrenches the social death and civic exclusion of black people in a modern US society that purports to be color-blind and postracial. Emerging within the postmodern turn...

... to provide other scholars with a place to begin to unpack the rhetoric of ‘‘revolution’’ and black political struggle. In one of the book’s most ingenious moments, Perkins draws upon Lynn Chancer’s Sadomasochism in Every- 6849 AMERICAN...

... and the unfinished Paterson) that chronicles the moribund aspects of American culture, divorcing the individual from an Edenic world and delineat- ing the negative aspects of experience. Frost’s poetry (especially ‘‘The Black...

..., the Left, and Postwar Literary Culture. By Kathlene McDonald. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2012. xi, 132 pp. Cloth, $55.00; e-book available. Postmodern Utopias and Feminist Fictions. By Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2013. xvii, 230 pp. Cloth, $95.00; e...

...Patrick Jagoda © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Postmodern American Literature and Its Other . By W. Lawrence Hogue. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2008. xvi, 212 pp. $45.00. Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database . By Alan Liu. Chicago...

..., novelists create radical and antityrannical discourses, books in which black and white voices converge, which for Doyle constitute the literary history of Atlantic modernity. Doyle deploys Toni Morrison’s notion of Africanism, which Morrison uses to meditate on white canonical U.S. writers...

... consumer marketplace that mediated this shift. As a result, black magazines became the setting for the victory not of consumerism but of W. E. B. DuBois’s vision of black modernity over Booker T. Washington’s...

... of Anglo-Saxon freedom. By appropriating this rhetoric, novelists create radical and antityrannical discourses, books in which black and white voices converge, which for Doyle constitute the literary history of Atlantic modernity. Doyle deploys Toni Morrison’s notion of Africanism, which...

... with the racialized rhetoric of Anglo-Saxon freedom. By appropriating this rhetoric, novelists create radical and antityrannical discourses, books in which black and white voices converge, which for Doyle constitute the literary history of Atlantic modernity. Doyle deploys Toni Morrison’s notion...

... discourses, books in which black and white voices converge, which for Doyle constitute the literary history of Atlantic modernity. Doyle deploys Toni Morrison’s notion of Africanism, which Morrison uses to meditate on white canonical U.S. writers, to refigure seminal texts of colo- nialism...

... with the racialized rhetoric of Anglo-Saxon freedom. By appropriating this rhetoric, novelists create radical and antityrannical discourses, books in which black and white voices converge, which for Doyle constitute the literary history of Atlantic modernity. Doyle deploys Toni Morrison’s notion...

.... By appropriating this rhetoric, novelists create radical and antityrannical discourses, books in which black and white voices converge, which for Doyle constitute the literary history of Atlantic modernity. Doyle deploys Toni Morrison’s notion of Africanism, which Morrison uses to meditate on white...

..., novelists create radical and antityrannical discourses, books in which black and white voices converge, which for Doyle constitute the literary history of Atlantic modernity. Doyle deploys Toni Morrison’s notion of Africanism, which Morrison uses to meditate on white canonical U.S. writers...

..., novelists create radical and antityrannical discourses, books in which black and white voices converge, which for Doyle constitute the literary history of Atlantic modernity. Doyle deploys Toni Morrison’s notion of Africanism, which Morrison uses to meditate on white canonical U.S. writers...

..., novelists create radical and antityrannical discourses, books in which black and white voices converge, which for Doyle constitute the literary history of Atlantic modernity. Doyle deploys Toni Morrison’s notion of Africanism, which Morrison uses to meditate on white canonical U.S. writers...

... with the racialized rhetoric of Anglo-Saxon freedom. By appropriating this rhetoric, novelists create radical and antityrannical discourses, books in which black and white voices converge, which for Doyle constitute the literary history of Atlantic modernity. Doyle deploys Toni Morrison’s notion...

..., novelists create radical and antityrannical discourses, books in which black and white voices converge, which for Doyle constitute the literary history of Atlantic modernity. Doyle deploys Toni Morrison’s notion of Africanism, which Morrison uses to meditate on white canonical U.S. writers...

... with the racialized rhetoric of Anglo-Saxon freedom. By appropriating this rhetoric, novelists create radical and antityrannical discourses, books in which black and white voices converge, which for Doyle constitute the literary history of Atlantic modernity. Doyle deploys Toni Morrison’s notion...

... debates that emerged from it. Doyle posits that the English Civil War supplied novelists from Aphra Behn to Nella Larsen with the racialized rhetoric of Anglo-Saxon freedom. By appropriating this rhetoric, novelists create radical and antityrannical discourses, books in which black and white...