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..., Heinemann, O'Brien, Butler . By Tobey C. Herzog. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2008. xii, 217 pp. $39.95. Book Reviews Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism. By Paul Gilmore. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2008. viii, 242 pp. $60.00. Passions for Nature...

...Nancy McCabe Octavia E. Butler . By Gerry Canavan . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois Press . 2016 . xvii, 225 pp. Cloth, $95.00 ; paper, $22.00 ; e-book, $19.80 . How to Revise a True War Story: Tim O’Brien’s Process of Textual Production . By John K. Young . Iowa City...

... the transatlantic cable and that served, over the course of the decade, as a metonym for advanced telecommunications technology. In Congress, Brooks's assault was depicted by Senator Andrew Butler as a rejoinder to Sumner's speech as an improper—because prepublished and internationally distributed—abolitionist...

... Bradley, Octavia Butler, James McBride, and Phyllis Alesia Perry, Dubey explores the various ways the generic choice of speculative fiction sponsors a purposefully antihistorical approach to the past. Speculative novels of slavery employ paranormal narrative devices of time-travel and supernatural...

... narratives including Alex Haley’s Roots (1976), Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred (1979), Sherley Anne Williams’s Dessa Rose (1986), Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987), Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes (2007), and M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! (2008), this essay explores the tension between sentimentality...

... of contemporary literature and film; the key prose authors discussed are Octavia E. Butler, Margaret Atwood, Ernest Callenbach, and Kim Stanley Robinson. These texts are used to identify patterns of thought that have become habitual in the cultural moment of the Anthropocene, and they are explored as critiques...

... but without forfeiting the cultural center, or the front seat in the classroom. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 whiteness war literature Vietnam War Tim O’Brien Robert Olen Butler At the end of a long book tour, the novelist Tim O’Brien welcomed Tobey Herzog, a literature...

... will be of particular interest to scholars of Appalachian studies, regional writing, and US Southern literary studies. Of Bodies, Communities, and Voices: Agency in Writings by Octavia Butler . By Florian Bast. Heidelberg, DE: Universitätsverlag. 2015. 238 pp. No price available. Reflective of the swelling...

... Butler’s Xenogenesis narratives (Dawn [1987], Adulthood Rites [1988], and Imago [1989]) engage the complexities of ethical relationships between social groups with inequitable posi- tions, and this exploration of the political, social, ethical, and economic encounters with alterity reflects...

... identity as strategic. Instead, Martinez understands identities “not as essences or fictions, but as bits of social theory” (12). It is unsurprising then, that his first chapter takes aim at Judith Butler, the antirealist theorist par excellence. Reading Butler’s reading of Toni Morrison’s Nobel...

...Erica Fretwell; Hsuan L. Hsu [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Across Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy, touch, chemosensation, and sensitivity to DNA itself offer a basis for building kinship relations that stretch across...

..., sexuality has become a veritable mantra as critics indulge in what Judith Butler identifies as the seduc- tion of the ‘‘proverbial commas 1 This issue of American Literature testifies that enactments of race, gender, class, sexuality, and, also, region cannot be separated. These essays reveal...

... for Dick’s androids, I’m not ready to give up quite yet. Besides, all-out nuclear apocalypse doesn’t seem to be as imminent as it did during the Cold War; we have other nightmares to wake up screaming from. So I want to close by contrasting these postnuclear dystopias with Octavia Butler’s version...

... Butler, Nalo Hopkinson, Tananarive Due, and Mat Johnson) as a set of theoretical sources and not just as literary texts to analyze. In the second conversation Pickens weaves a cautionary tale about the reduction of Black madness to a counter representation within African American cultural histories...

..., Leslie Silko, and Octavia Butler, and of visual artists Barbara Kruger and Ana Mendieta, Alaimo draws attention to texts that ‘‘inhabit nature in order to transform it, not only contending with the natures that have been waged Tseng...

...’’ (107, 98). Without benefit of queer theory’s notion, via Judith Butler, that 6849 AMERICAN LITERATURE 75:2 / sheet 130 of 246 every performance of gender ‘‘is a kind of imitation for which there is no original Either Is Love’s narrator must...

... . By Leslie Butler. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2007. xv, 381 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95. Henry James Goes to Paris . By Peter Brooks. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2007. 255 pp. $24.95. Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time . By Wai...

... plausibly identify with and desire the same object at the same time, a heterosexist assumption that has been the object of scrutiny in the work of theorists such as Judith Butler, Diana Fuss, and Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen.21 O’Hara’s work anticipates such queer theoretical investigations...

..., as they rhyme clearly with Judith Butler’s widely read Bodies That Matter, published the same year as Logan’s essay. In a conclusion similar to that of Logan’s local reading of Rowlandson, Butler arrives at the more abstract point that “matter itself is founded through a set of violations,” which...

... Youngblood, Gayl Jones’s Corregidora, and Octavia Butler’s Kindred. While Thompson offers ample evidence to support the pervasiveness of consumption as a theme in these works, he expresses its wider significance less convincingly. Although the book occasionally promises to connect...