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The Black Atlantic Monthly : Nicholas Said and the Limits of Literary Citizenship

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Ira Dworkin
American Literature (2025) 97 (1): 37–64.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11597500
Published: 01 March 2025
... as a freed person after a period of enslavement in Africa, Asia, and Europe, and with “A Native of Bornoo” he reached the seeming pinnacle of white literary culture. Although Said served in the US Civil War, he wrote nothing about his experience in the war. Instead of using his US bona fides as a war veteran...
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Claiming a Tradition: Italian American Women Writers

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Donna R. Gabaccia
American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 889–890.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-4-889
Published: 01 December 2000
...Donna R. Gabaccia By Mary Jo Bona. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 1999. xii, 253 pp. $39.95. 2000 Book Reviews 889 in the sixties while also engaging...
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Brief Mention

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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 655–659.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3650811
Published: 01 September 2016
... Writing Cloth: Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary . By Mary Jo Bona. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2016. xviii, 139 pp. Cloth, $75.00; e-book, $74.99. This study looks at the intersection of “sewing and telling,” analyzing how female sewers, weavers, quilters, and embroiderers use...
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Neo-Slave Narratives: Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary Form

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Lindon Barrett
American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 888–889.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-4-888
Published: 01 December 2000
... Claiming a Tradition: Italian American Women Writers. By Mary Jo Bona. Carbon- dale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 1999. xii, 253 pp. $39.95. Mary Jo Bona’s Claiming a Tradition, which focuses on fifteen novels written...
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Jean Toomer's Cane : Self as Montage and the Drive toward Integration

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Joel B. Peckham
American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 275–290.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-2-275
Published: 01 June 2000
... to be to crowd out deepthought, deepemotion, deepspeech, so the structure of society can be main- tained. In ‘‘Bona and Paul for example, we are given a scene in which two white men try to get their black friend Paul to snapout...
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Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature; “The Regulations of Robbers”: Legal Fictions of Slavery and Resistance

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Joycelyn Moody
American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 465–467.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-2-465
Published: 01 June 2003
... and laws (bona fide and faux), slave narratives and other autobiographies, and personal essays from four centuries of American public discourses. Examin- ing single events from multiple perspectives, Accomando argues successfully...
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The Race Question and the “Question of the Home”: Revisiting the Lynching Plot in Jean Toomer's Cane

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Susan Edmunds
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 141–168.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-141
Published: 01 March 2003
... and class. In these stories, Toomer locates the power of black dance in its symbolic engagements with the dis- placed indexes of racist atrocity. In ‘‘Theater’’ and ‘‘Bona and Paul jazz dancing breaks apart and recombines key...
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The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion since World War II; Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates

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Gene Andrew Jarrett
American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 637–639.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-038
Published: 01 September 2009
...Gene Andrew Jarrett © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion since World War II . Ed. David A. Hollinger. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2006. vi, 421 pp. $45.00. Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates . Ed. Mary Jo Bona...
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Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640–1940; The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade

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Christopher C. Freeburg
American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 613–615.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-028
Published: 01 September 2009
.... Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates. Ed. Mary Jo Bona and Irma Maini. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2006. xiv, 242 pp. Cloth, $74.50; paper, $26.95. Arguably, the publication of these two edited collections in the same year marks a watershed moment in the academic...
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Perfecting Friendship: Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature; Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar American Poetry

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Betsy Klimasmith
American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 615–617.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-029
Published: 01 September 2009
.... Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates. Ed. Mary Jo Bona and Irma Maini. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2006. xiv, 242 pp. Cloth, $74.50; paper, $26.95. Arguably, the publication of these two edited collections in the same year marks a watershed moment in the academic...
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Dark Victorians; Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic World; The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture; The Great War and the Culture of the New Negro

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Edlie Wong
American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 618–621.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-030
Published: 01 September 2009
.... Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates. Ed. Mary Jo Bona and Irma Maini. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2006. xiv, 242 pp. Cloth, $74.50; paper, $26.95. Arguably, the publication of these two edited collections in the same year marks a watershed moment in the academic...
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Passive Constitutions, or, 7 1/2 Times Bartleby; Impersonality: Seven Essays

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Franny Nudelman
American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 621–623.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-031
Published: 01 September 2009
.... Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates. Ed. Mary Jo Bona and Irma Maini. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2006. xiv, 242 pp. Cloth, $74.50; paper, $26.95. Arguably, the publication of these two edited collections in the same year marks a watershed moment in the academic...
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Melville: The Making of the Poet; Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville: Essays in Relation

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Hugh Egan
American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 623–625.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-032
Published: 01 September 2009
.... Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates. Ed. Mary Jo Bona and Irma Maini. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2006. xiv, 242 pp. Cloth, $74.50; paper, $26.95. Arguably, the publication of these two edited collections in the same year marks a watershed moment in the academic...
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Interventions into Modernist Cultures: Poetry from beyond the Empty Screen; Race, Nationalism, and the State in British and American Modernism; Pop Modernism: Noise and the Reinvention of the Everyday

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Colbey Emmerson Reid
American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 626–628.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-033
Published: 01 September 2009
... 10.1215/00029831-2009-037 The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion since World War II. Ed. David A. Hollinger. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2006. vi, 421 pp. $45.00. Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates. Ed. Mary Jo Bona and Irma Maini. Albany: State Univ. of New...
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The Man Who Adores the Negro: Race and American Folklore; The Hammers of Creation: Folk Culture in Modern African-American Fiction

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Keith Byerman
American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 628–630.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-034
Published: 01 September 2009
.... Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates. Ed. Mary Jo Bona and Irma Maini. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2006. xiv, 242 pp. Cloth, $74.50; paper, $26.95. Arguably, the publication of these two edited collections in the same year marks a watershed moment in the academic...
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Don't Deny My Name: Words and Music and the Black Intellectual Tradition; Black Heart: The Moral Life of Recent African American Letters

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James R. Giles
American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 630–632.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-035
Published: 01 September 2009
.... Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates. Ed. Mary Jo Bona and Irma Maini. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2006. xiv, 242 pp. Cloth, $74.50; paper, $26.95. Arguably, the publication of these two edited collections in the same year marks a watershed moment in the academic...
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Race, American Literature, and Transnational Modernisms; Nationalism and the Formation of Caribbean Literature; Cuban Currency: The Dollar and “Special Period” Fiction

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Myriam J. A. Chancy
American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 633–635.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-036
Published: 01 September 2009
... 10.1215/00029831-2009-037 The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion since World War II. Ed. David A. Hollinger. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2006. vi, 421 pp. $45.00. Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates. Ed. Mary Jo Bona and Irma Maini. Albany: State Univ. of New...
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Discovering Exile: Yiddish and Jewish American Culture during the Holocaust; Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity

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Allison Schachter
American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 635–637.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-037
Published: 01 September 2009
.... Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates. Ed. Mary Jo Bona and Irma Maini. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2006. xiv, 242 pp. Cloth, $74.50; paper, $26.95. Arguably, the publication of these two edited collections in the same year marks a watershed moment in the academic...
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The Rites of Identity: The Religious Naturalism and Cultural Criticism of Kenneth Burke and Ralph Ellison

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Jonathan Arac
American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 639–641.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-039
Published: 01 September 2009
... 10.1215/00029831-2009-037 The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion since World War II. Ed. David A. Hollinger. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2006. vi, 421 pp. $45.00. Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates. Ed. Mary Jo Bona and Irma Maini. Albany: State Univ. of New...
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Listening to the Land: Native American Literary Responses to the Landscape; The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast

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Virginia Kennedy
American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 641–643.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-040
Published: 01 September 2009
.... Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates. Ed. Mary Jo Bona and Irma Maini. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2006. xiv, 242 pp. Cloth, $74.50; paper, $26.95. Arguably, the publication of these two edited collections in the same year marks a watershed moment in the academic...
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