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American Body Politics: Race, Gender, and Black Literary Renaissance

Carole K. Doreski
American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 439–440.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-2-439
Published: 01 June 2000
... in the character of Vine, and the belief in free will, linked with humanity and em- bodied in Rolfe, Clarel has to create his own median conception of truth—in much the same way Pierre has to wrestle with both Horological and Chrono...
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The Rhetoric of Rhetoric: The Quest for Effective Communication; Living to Tell about It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration; FDR's Body Politics: The Rhetoric of Disability; Defining Reality: Definitions and the Politics of Meaning

Alisse Portnoy
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 219–222.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-092
Published: 01 March 2007
... . By James Phelan. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2005. xiv, 236 pp. Cloth, $45; paper, $19.95. FDR's Body Politics: The Rhetoric of Disability . By Davis W. Houck and Amos Kiewe. College Station: Texas A &amp; M Univ. Press. 2003. xii, 141 pp. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $14.95. Defining...
View articletitled, The Rhetoric of Rhetoric: The Quest for Effective Communication; Living to Tell about It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration; FDR&#x27;s <span class="search-highlight">Body</span> Politics: The Rhetoric of Disability; Defining Reality: Definitions and the Politics of Meaning View PDF for article titled, The Rhetoric of Rhetoric: The Quest for Effective Communication; Living to Tell about It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration; FDR&#x27;s <span class="search-highlight">Body</span> Politics: The Rhetoric of Disability; Defining Reality: Definitions and the Politics of Meaning
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Lost Bodies: Inhabiting the Borders of Life and Death; Identifying Marks: Race, Gender, and the Marked Body in Nineteenth-Century America

Kwakiutl L. Dreher
American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 425–427.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-009
Published: 01 June 2010
...Kwakiutl L. Dreher © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Lost Bodies: Inhabiting the Borders of Life and Death . By Laura E. Tanner. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2006. xiii, 264 pp. Cloth, $57.50; paper, $19.95. Identifying Marks: Race, Gender, and the Marked Body...
View articletitled, Lost <span class="search-highlight">Bodies</span>: Inhabiting the Borders of Life and Death; Identifying Marks: Race, Gender, and the Marked <span class="search-highlight">Body</span> in Nineteenth-Century America View PDF for article titled, Lost <span class="search-highlight">Bodies</span>: Inhabiting the Borders of Life and Death; Identifying Marks: Race, Gender, and the Marked <span class="search-highlight">Body</span> in Nineteenth-Century America
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The Black Female Body in Literature and Art: Performing Identity Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva: Women’s Subjectivity and the Decolonizing Text

Emily J. Lordi
American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 631–633.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2717344
Published: 01 September 2014
...Emily J. Lordi The Black Female Body in Literature and Art: Performing Identity . By Brown Caroline A. . New York : Routledge . 2012 . xvi , 289 pp. Cloth , $128.00 ; paper , $44.95 . Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva: Women’s Subjectivity and the Decolonizing Text...
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Idle Threats: Men and the Limits of Productivity in Nineteenth-Century America Talking Shop: The Language of Craft in an Age of Consumption Body Double: The Author Incarnate in the Cinema Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market

Stephen P. Rice
American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 847–850.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2811706
Published: 01 December 2014
... in an Age of Consumption . By Betjemann Peter . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2011 . ix , 267 pp. Cloth , $35.00 ; e-book available . Body Double: The Author Incarnate in the Cinema . By Fischer Lucy . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers Univ. Press . 2013 . 273 pp. Cloth...
View articletitled, Idle Threats: Men and the Limits of Productivity in Nineteenth-Century America Talking Shop: The Language of Craft in an Age of Consumption <span class="search-highlight">Body</span> Double: The Author Incarnate in the Cinema Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market View PDF for article titled, Idle Threats: Men and the Limits of Productivity in Nineteenth-Century America Talking Shop: The Language of Craft in an Age of Consumption <span class="search-highlight">Body</span> Double: The Author Incarnate in the Cinema Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market
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Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics Reading Embodied Citizenship: Disability, Narrative, and the Body Politic Toys and Tools in Pink: Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science, and Technology

Lisa Lynch
American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 600–603.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2322595
Published: 01 September 2013
...Lisa Lynch Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics . By Holloway Karla F. C. . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2011 . 225 pp. Cloth , $79.95 ; paper , $22.95 . Reading Embodied Citizenship: Disability, Narrative, and the Body Politic...
View articletitled, Private <span class="search-highlight">Bodies</span>, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics Reading Embodied Citizenship: Disability, Narrative, and the <span class="search-highlight">Body</span> Politic Toys and Tools in Pink: Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science, and Technology View PDF for article titled, Private <span class="search-highlight">Bodies</span>, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics Reading Embodied Citizenship: Disability, Narrative, and the <span class="search-highlight">Body</span> Politic Toys and Tools in Pink: Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science, and Technology
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The Ruptures of American Capital: Women of Color Feminism and the Culture of Immigrant Labor; Incorporations: Race, Nation, and the Body Politics of Capital

Jodi Melamed
American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 843–845.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-050
Published: 01 December 2007
..., Nation, and the Body Politics of Capital . By Eva Cherniavsky. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2006. xxvii, 182 pp. Cloth, $58.50; paper, $19.50. Book Reviews Heartless Immensity: Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America. By Anne Baker. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press...
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Authorizing Experience: Refigurations of the Body Politic in Seventeenth-Century New England Writing

Paul Gutjahr
American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 181–182.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-181
Published: 01 March 2000
...Paul Gutjahr By Jim Egan. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. 1999. x, 182 pp. $37.50. 2000 Book Reviews 5995 AL 72:1 / sheet 185 of 246 Authorizing Experience: Refigurations of the Body Politic in Seventeenth-Century...
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Eating the Black Body: Miscegenation as Sexual Consumption in African American Literature and Culture; Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature; Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona in Post-Soul America

Joseph Helminski
American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 422–424.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-014
Published: 01 June 2008
...Joseph Helminski © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Eating the Black Body: Miscegenation as Sexual Consumption in African American Literature and Culture . By Carlyle Van Thompson. New York: Peter Lang. 2006. xiii, 231 pp. Paper, $29.95. Deans and Truants: Race and Realism...
View articletitled, Eating the Black <span class="search-highlight">Body</span>: Miscegenation as Sexual Consumption in African American Literature and Culture; Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature; Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona in Post-Soul America View PDF for article titled, Eating the Black <span class="search-highlight">Body</span>: Miscegenation as Sexual Consumption in African American Literature and Culture; Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature; Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona in Post-Soul America
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Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body, and Spirit

Kevin J. White
American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 880–882.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1437324
Published: 01 December 2011
...Kevin J. White Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body, and Spirit . By Archibald Joann . Vancouver : Univ. of British Columbia Press . 2008 . xiv, 176 pp. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $29.95 . Tribal Theory in Native American Literature: Dakota and Haudenosaunee...
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John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, and the Culture of War; The War Complex: World War in Our Time

Eric Solomon
American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 657–659.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-046
Published: 01 September 2006
...Eric Solomon Duke University Press 2006 John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, and the Culture of War . By Franny Nudelman. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2004. x, 226 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95. The War Complex: World War in Our Time. By Marianna...
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An American Body/Politic: A Deleuzian Approach / American Spaces of Conversion: The Conductive Imaginaries of Edwards, Emerson, and James / Love’s Whipping Boy: Violence and Sentimentality in the American Imagination / Revolutionary Deists: Early America’s Rational Infidels

Arthur Riss
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 437–440.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587647
Published: 01 June 2012
...Arthur Riss An American Body/Politic: A Deleuzian Approach . By Herzogenrath Bernd . Hanover, NH : Dartmouth College Press . 2010 . xii, 316 pp. Cloth , $85.00 ; paper , $39.95 . American Spaces of Conversion: The Conductive Imaginaries of Edwards, Emerson, and James...
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Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination / Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body

Suzanne Schneider
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 450–452.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587692
Published: 01 June 2012
... Memory, and the Black Body . By Young Harvey . Ann Arbor : Univ. of Michigan Press . 2010 . ix, 259 pp. Cloth , $80.00 ; paper , $29.95 . © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Book Reviews An American Body|Politic: A Deleuzian Approach. By Bernd Herzogenrath. Han- over, NH...
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Modernism, Inc.: Body, Memory, Capital; Queer Frontiers: Millennial Geographies, Genders, and Generations

Bonnie Kime Scott
American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 654–656.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-3-654
Published: 01 September 2002
... numbers of these African men, women, and children, and their descendents, within the United States. Schol- ars of the Atlantic slave trade have explored its myriad dimensions imagina- tively through impressive qualitative and quantitative analysis, but there is still much work to be done. This body...
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The Ivory Leg in the Ebony Cabinet: Madness, Race, and Gender in Victorian America; Conjugal Union: The Body, the House, and the Black American

Candice Jenkins
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 185–187.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-185
Published: 01 March 2003
...- ica. By Thomas Cooley. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2001. xxvi, 302 pp. $34.95. Conjugal Union: The Body, the House, and the Black American. By Robert F. Reid- Pharr. New York: Oxford Univ. Press...
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Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature; Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities; Writing Deafness: The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Robert McRuer
American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 624–626.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-029
Published: 01 September 2008
...Robert McRuer © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature . Ed. H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Jennifer L. Nelson, and Heidi M. Rose. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2006. xxviii, 264 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper...
View articletitled, Signing the <span class="search-highlight">Body</span> Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature; Unruly <span class="search-highlight">Bodies</span>: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities; Writing Deafness: The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature View PDF for article titled, Signing the <span class="search-highlight">Body</span> Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature; Unruly <span class="search-highlight">Bodies</span>: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities; Writing Deafness: The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
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Science, Nature Work, and the Kinaesthetic Body in Cather and Stein

Anne Raine
American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 799–830.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-039
Published: 01 December 2008
... continuity between human and nonhuman nature. Read in this light, their work reveals a shared and gendered ambivalence about science and nature that in many ways anticipates our own. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Anne Science, Nature Work, and the Kinaesthetic Raine Body...
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The Evolution of Film: Rethinking Film Studies; Body Shots: Early Cinema's Incarnations

Abigail Salerno
American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 629–631.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-031
Published: 01 September 2008
...Abigail Salerno © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 The Evolution of Film: Rethinking Film Studies . By Janet Harbord. Cambridge: Polity Press. 2007. ix, 198 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $22.95. Body Shots: Early Cinema's Incarnations . By Jonathan Auerbach. Berkeley and Los...
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National Melancholy: Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature; Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America; Mourning Modernity: Literary Modernism and the Injuries of American Capitalism; Kindred Specters: Death, Mourning, and American Affinity

Heather Love
American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 206–209.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-061
Published: 01 March 2009
...Heather Love © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 National Melancholy: Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature . By Mitchell Breitwieser. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2007. ix, 322 pp. $60.00. Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth...
View articletitled, National Melancholy: Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature; Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the <span class="search-highlight">Body</span> in Nineteenth-Century America; Mourning Modernity: Literary Modernism and the Injuries of American Capitalism; Kindred Specters: Death, Mourning, and American Affinity View PDF for article titled, National Melancholy: Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature; Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the <span class="search-highlight">Body</span> in Nineteenth-Century America; Mourning Modernity: Literary Modernism and the Injuries of American Capitalism; Kindred Specters: Death, Mourning, and American Affinity
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Power of Body / Power of Mind: Arts and Crafts, New Thought, and Popular Women’s Literature at the Fin de Siècle

Arielle Zibrak
American Literature (2021) 93 (4): 601–628.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9520194
Published: 01 December 2021
... that positive or negative thoughts directly translate to positive or negative outcomes in the real world. Poet, lecturer, and activist Ella Wheeler Wilcox praised the Law of Attraction in her 1892 poem “Secret Thoughts”: I hold it true that thoughts are things They’re endowed with bodies and breath and wings...
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