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...Stephanie Li Duke University Press 2007 Stephanie Resistance, Silence, and Placées: Li Charles Bon’s Octoroon Mistress and Louisa Picquet In 1850, Mary Walker, a free woman of color, filed a petition in the Fourth District Court...

... of the Civil War, Henry killed Judith’s fiancé, Charles Bon, with whom he was in love and who was his and Judith’s half-brother by Sutpen’s earlier marriage. Sutpen had repudiated Bon and his mother when he discovered she was partly of African descent. Bon’s murder heralded Sutpen’s failure to achieve his...

..., is a fantastic demon. She particularly romanticizes Charles Bon, whom she admits never having seen, and who, in fact, may be a prod- uct of her imagination: ‘‘I never saw [his body she tells us, in de- scribing Bon’s burial. ‘‘Why did I not invent, create it (122). In her treatment of Bon as an exotic...

... gone out of them. Somebody has taken their story’’ (FC, 8). What Raven refers to as a person’s ‘‘Etheric Double’’ is also whathecallsaperson’s‘‘gris-gristhe‘‘thing that is himself and what in Voodoo is known as one’s ‘‘gros bon ange’’ (FC, 8). Voodoo practi- tioners in Haiti, notes Dayan, see...

... out during Reconstruction (chapter 3), the Harlem Renaissance (chapter 4), the Civil Rights movement and on through the present day (chapter 5). Her chapter on the Harlem Renaissance concludes by contrasting Arna Bon- temps’s landmark Newbery Honor book The Story of the Negro (1948...

... patrilineality. From his viewpoint, the quest for a son, for the continuation of his line, is an extension of the rags-to-riches saga he envisions for himself. It means that death will not inhibit the continued progress of his ascent. The conflict between Henry and Bon seems to leavehimwithoutason...

... magic 866 American Literature in African American culture as well as the politics of performance such magic entails. The contention of this monograph is that one-act plays by Marita Bon- ner, Thelma Duncan, Zora Neale Hurston, May Miller, and Eulalie Spence, among other writers, perform...

... Eichmann trial and Arendt’s later declaration of the “banality of evil” in 1963,32 earlier discourses on mob psychol- ogy (for example, Gustave Le Bon’s The Crowd [1895] and Georg Sim- mel’s essay “The Metropolis and Mental Life” [1903]) gave way to analyses of the conformist individual who...

... with crazes, manias, panics, and mental plagues of all sorts’’ (PS, 311). Gustave Le Bon, Gabriel Tarde, and other early crowd psychologists had discussed the mob-like behavior of the market, and Sidis devotes a full...

...- der. Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press. 1999. xx, 247 pp. Paper, $20.00. First published in 1981, The Prodigal Daughter: A Biography of Sherwood Bon- ner tells the story of a woman, who, born in 1849 into the Southern planter...

... Allison, Larry Brown, Harry Crews, Richard Ford, Barry Hannah, Kaye Gib- bons, Randall Kenan, Bobbie Ann Mason, Cormac McCarthy—work against previously erected pastoral mythologies and modernist aesthetics to trans- form the literary regional identity of the South for the twenty-first century. He sees...

... donc pas renoncer à Satan Disait un bon pasteur à certaine bigote Qui d’assez gros péchés, à chaque nouvel an, Venait lui présenter l’interminable note. ‘‘Je veux y renoncer dit-elle, ‘‘pour jamais; Mais avant que la grâce en mon âme scintille, Pour m’ôter tout motif de pécher...

... wealthy. Lehr describes how he “planned his campaign, voiced the bons mots which had made him famous throughout America, devised new eccen- tricities, new entertainments to amuse society,” but she speculates that he had “remained aloof and unamused behind that blandly smiling mask, cynical...

.... 3 On literary representations of plaçage, see Clark 2013 , 132–61, 168–71, 188–93; Martin 2000 , 66–68; and Nagel 2014 , 10, 12. I thank my student Jacqueline DeRobertis for the reference to Nagel and the Sorbonne. Faulkner’s ( 1990 , 93) Charles Bon makes particularly clear the associations...

... : New American Library . Hoang Thuy . 2014 . “ Vi sao 20 nam moi cong bon gay mat Chu tich Ho Chi Minh ” (“The Reason President Ho Chi Minh’s Death Date Was Announced Only 20 Years Afterward”). VnExpress , August 30 . vnexpress.net/tin-tuc/thoi-su/vi-sao-20-nam-moi-cong-bo-ngay-mat-chu...

... forays into the Caribbean and elsewhere throughout the twentieth century. Perhaps the most insightful and lucid essay from a U.S. contributor is Elizabeth Steeby’s treatment of Charles Bon as a “transnational queer figure” (151), in which she helpfully explicates this mythical cosmopolitan whom...

... forays into the Caribbean and elsewhere throughout the twentieth century. Perhaps the most insightful and lucid essay from a U.S. contributor is Elizabeth Steeby’s treatment of Charles Bon as a “transnational queer figure” (151), in which she helpfully explicates this mythical cosmopolitan whom...

... forays into the Caribbean and elsewhere throughout the twentieth century. Perhaps the most insightful and lucid essay from a U.S. contributor is Elizabeth Steeby’s treatment of Charles Bon as a “transnational queer figure” (151), in which she helpfully explicates this mythical cosmopolitan whom...