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Out of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel; American Multiculturalism after 9/11: Transatlantic Perspectives
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 471–474.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Elisabeth Anker Out of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel . By Kristiaan Versluys. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2009. x, 226 pp. Cloth, $79.50; paper, $24.50. American Multiculturalism after 9/11: Transatlantic Perspectives . Ed. Derek Rubin and Jaap Verheul. Amsterdam: Amsterdam Univ...
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Darker Than Blue: On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Culture
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 868–870.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Martyn Bone Darker than Blue: On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Culture . By Gilroy Paul . Cambridge : Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press . 2010 . 207 pp. $22.95 . Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature . By Goyal Yogita . New York : Cambridge Univ...
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Stephen Crane's Blue Badge of Courage; The Material Unconscious: American Amusement, Stephen Crane, and the Economies of Play
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American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 411–413.
Published: 01 June 2002
... of California, Los Angeles
Stephen Crane’s Blue Badge of Courage. By George Monteiro. Baton Rouge: Louisi-
ana State Univ. Press. 2000. 224 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95.
The Material Unconscious: American Amusement, Stephen Crane, and the Econo-
mies of Play. By Bill Brown. Cambridge: Harvard Univ...
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Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin; Blue as the Lake: A Personal Geography
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American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 661–662.
Published: 01 September 2001
..., and as these memoirs occasionally make manifest, guilt can all too
easily trump action.
Tara L. McPherson, University of Southern California
Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin. By Deborah McDowell. New York: Norton.
1996. 364 pp. Paper, $13.00.
Blue as the Lake: A Personal Geography. By Robert B. Stepto...
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Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity; Kinds of Blue: The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative
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American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 197–199.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Mendi Lewis Obadike Duke University Press 2007 Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity . By Alexander G. Weheliye. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2005. xii, 286 pp. $22.95. Kinds of Blue: The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative. By Jurgen E. Grandt. Columbus...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (4): 718–722.
Published: 01 December 2021
... than sound, makes perfect sense. Beyond the Crossroads also resembles Kaufman’s book in its less successful qualities. For instance, the book focuses almost entirely on blues lyrics, offering little formal analysis of voice or music, which is especially disappointing given that Gussow...
View articletitled, Woody Guthrie’s Modern World <span class="search-highlight">Blues</span> Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the <span class="search-highlight">Blues</span> Tradition Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War’s “Gospel Army” The Great Woman Singer: Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 415–418.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Alexis Pauline Gumbs Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination . By Mizelle Richard M. Jr. Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2014 . xii, 209 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper, $25.00 . Ain’t Got No Home: America’s Great Migrations...
View articletitled, Backwater <span class="search-highlight">Blues</span>: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination Ain’t Got No Home: America’s Great Migrations and the Making of an Interracial Left Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s
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Preacher Woman Sings the Blues: The Autobiographies of Nineteenth-Century African American Evangelists; Sentimental Confessions: Spiritual Narratives of Nineteenth-Century African American Women
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 645–647.
Published: 01 September 2002
.... Read it if you can.
Sharon L. Dean, Rivier College
Book Reviews 645
Preacher Woman Sings the Blues: The Autobiographies of Nineteenth-Century Afri-
can American Evangelists. By Richard J. Douglass-Chin. Columbia: Univ. of Mis-
souri Press...
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Jazz Country: Ralph Ellison in America; Spiritual, Blues, and Jazz People in African American Fiction: Living in Paradox
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 462–464.
Published: 01 June 2003
... Country: Ralph Ellison in America. By Horace Porter. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa
Press. 2001. 168 pp. $29.95.
Spiritual, Blues, and Jazz People in African American Fiction: Living in Paradox.
By A. Yemisi...
View articletitled, Jazz Country: Ralph Ellison in America; Spiritual, <span class="search-highlight">Blues</span>, and Jazz People in African American Fiction: Living in Paradox
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Deeper Blues, or the Posthuman Prometheus: Cybernetic Renewal and the Late-Twentieth-Century American Novel
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American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 379–407.
Published: 01 June 2005
...D. Quentin Miller Duke University Press 2005 D. Quentin Deeper Blues, or the Posthuman Prometheus:
Miller Cybernetic Renewal and the Late-Twentieth-
Century American Novel
‘‘In a Battle of Wits, Your Computer Will Always Win...
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Seems like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition; Good with Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt
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American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 642–644.
Published: 01 September 2005
... Literature
Seems like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition. By Adam Gus-
sow. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2002. xiv, 341 pp. Cloth $55.00; paper,
$22.00.
Good with Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt.
By Carlo Rotella. Berkeley and Los...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 409–411.
Published: 01 June 2008
...: Modern Blues Lives from Faulkner's Mississippi to Post-9/11 New York . By Adam Gussow. Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press. 2007. xix, pp. $30.00. Book Reviews
By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in
Authority. By Holly Brewer. Chapel Hill: Univ...
View articletitled, Resisting History: Gender, Modernity, and Authorship in William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty; Journeyman's Road: Modern <span class="search-highlight">Blues</span> Lives from Faulkner's Mississippi to Post-9/11 New York
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“Split by the Moonlight”: Beethoven and the Racial Sublime in African American Literature
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 623–652.
Published: 01 December 2020
... into a range of aesthetic experiences. This can be observed in the Beethovenian ekphrasis featured in prose works by James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison—four writers whose works have also been considered indebted to blues and jazz musical influences and who approach...
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“A silence that only they understand”: Amiri Baraka and the Silent Vernacular of The Dead Lecturer
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 791–820.
Published: 01 December 2017
...J. Peter Moore Abstract The present essay grows out of an engagement with a single line from Amiri Baraka’s 1964 book, The Dead Lecturer . In the poem “Rhythm and Blues,” Baraka writes, “The people of my life / caressed with a silence that only they understand.” The line appears amid a long...
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Literatures of Exile and Return: Jack Kerouac and Quebec
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 589–615.
Published: 01 September 2012
... to a commentary of a Québécois rewriting of Kerouac, Jacques Poulin’s 1984 Volkswagen Blues , Melehy demonstrates this novel’s exploration of North American identities in connection with Quebec and the role of literature in mapping them. The conclusion assesses Kerouac’s contribution to American literature...
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The Vernacular Sonnet and the Resurgence of Afro-Modernism in the 1940s
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 253–273.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Timo Müller The essay offers a new perspective on the resurgence of Afro-modernism in the 1940s, arguing that the vernacular sonnet—specifically Langston Hughes’s “Seven Moments of Love: An Un-Sonnet Sequence in Blues” and the sonnets of Gwendolyn Brooks and Robert Hayden—played a crucial role...
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Red Cars with Red Lights and Red Drivers: Color, Crane, and Qualia
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 719–745.
Published: 01 December 2009
... and controllable effects on human minds and bodies. In stories such as “The Blue Hotel” and “The Broken-Down Van” and in the novels The Red Badge of Courage and The Third Violet , Crane draws from and contributes to these experiments with abstract or “pure” color. He uses color to explore the networks of sensation...
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The Visual Art of Invisible Man : Ellison's Portrait of Blackness
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 775–803.
Published: 01 December 2009
... Invisible Man grows from uncritically admiring traditional images of power to understanding complicated visual presentations of blackness, he learns to value the complexity of African American cultural existence. Like Ellison's investment in jazz and blues, his deployment of visual art infuses his writing...
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Memory's Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America; Race and Time: American Women's Poetics from Antislavery to Racial Modernity
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American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 637–639.
Published: 01 September 2005
... Literature
Seems like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition. By Adam Gus-
sow. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2002. xiv, 341 pp. Cloth $55.00; paper,
$22.00.
Good with Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt.
By Carlo Rotella. Berkeley and Los...
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Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War; Facing the Other: Ethical Disruption and the American Mind; The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession
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American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 639–641.
Published: 01 September 2005
... form to the
literary and cinematic rhetoric of race.
Philip Joseph, University of Colorado-Denver
642 American Literature
Seems like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition. By Adam Gus-
sow. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2002. xiv, 341 pp. Cloth $55.00; paper,
$22.00...
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