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... in law. Holloway reflects on the 1956 case of Green v. New Orleans , in which Black foster parents seeking adoption unsuccessfully petitioned a court to change the race of a foster-child abandoned by her white mother. The court presumed the better interest of the child was to remain white—and an orphan...

... of the Free States; or, Remarks Suggested by the Case of the Creole . Boston : William Crosby . Cowper William . 1787 . The Task: A Poem . . . A New Edition . Philadelphia : Thomas Dobson . Douglass Frederick . ( 1846 ) 1979a .“ American and Scottish Prejudice against the Slave...

...Andrea L. Hibbard; John T. Parry Duke University Press 2006 Andrea L. Law, Seduction, and the Sentimental Heroine: Hibbard and The Case of Amelia Norman John T. Parry In 1841 Henry Ballard, a fashionable New York City merchant, pretended to court Amelia Norman...

...Cara Fabre Reconstituting Americans: Liberal Multiculturalism and Identity Difference in Post-1960s Literature . By Obourn Megan . New York : Palgrave MacMillan . 2011 . vii , 229 pp. $85.00 . identity complex: Making the Case for Multiplicity . By Hames-García Michael...

...: Ellis Frederick Douglass and the Environmental Case against Slavery Early in his second and much-revised autobiogra- phy, My Bondage and My Freedom ([1855] 1994), Frederick Douglass reminds us that to be a slave is to be treated as a fungible commodity...

...Jonathan Levin Pragmatic Modernism . By Schoenbach Lisi . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2012 . xv , 197 pp. $45.00 . Pragmatist Politics: Making the Case for Liberal Democracy . By McGowan John . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2012 . xxxii , 231 pp...

..., and the Nation: Staging American Identities.ByS.E.Wilmer.New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2002. vii, 281 pp. $60.00. The Federal Theatre Project: A Case Study. By Barry B. Witham. New York: Cam- bridge Univ. Press. 2003. xiii, 190 pp. $60.00. In the opening pages of Theatre, Society, and the Nation, S. E...

... Cases . By Kristin Boudreau. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus. 2006. 292 pp. Paper, $20.00. Victory of Law: The Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil War, and American Literature, 1852-1867 . By Deak Nabers. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2006. xii, 234 pp. $49.95. Book Reviews Heartless...

... of a newspaper. As our readings explore, these two Black newspapers exploited the expressive capacity of editorship to make radical critiques of slavery and to call for Black rights in the very formats of their papers. These two cases in 1862 offer a hint of the wider culture and longer histories...

... herself in a lifelong (and life-giving) revision of ancient myths. And Gregory makes the case for the pivotal place of these concerns in any study of H.D.’s work. From the perspective of this book, roads that lead elsewhere are diver- gences and detours. Cecilia Konchar Farr, College of St. Catherine...

... method is to ‘‘avoid nar- rative plod, purge inert data, go for the core, make the case stand’’ for the greater whole (10). And its goal is to demonstrate that Emerson has been misunderstood by those who read him as an icon of cultural nationalism and ‘‘liberal-capitalist ‘possessive’ individualism...

...Edlie Wong Wong's essay charts the legal controversies over slaves brought into New England after Massachusetts Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw's forceful application of the celebrated British civil suit, Somerset v. Stewart (1772), in the landmark case of the slave girl Med, or Commonwealth v. Aves...

... of the bildungsroman to contend with the ways Latinx literature is bound to narratives of forestalled self-development and failed incorporation. Such uneven relations are traced back to the ethnographic frameworks emplotted in the Insular Cases—which are a set of Supreme Court decisions that have suspended Puerto Rico...

...Stefan Andriopoulos Abstract How was it possible that numerous nineteenth-century readers believed in the authenticity of a made-up sensational story about a mesmerist experiment that supposedly arrested its subject between life and death? By juxtaposing Edgar Allan Poe’s “Facts in the Case of M...

...) and The Pit (1903) offer a case study of a naturalist Capitalocene aesthetics, one capable of capturing global capitalism’s destructive planetary agency. As a student at the University of California at Berkeley, Frank Norris was exposed to Joseph LeConte’s influential theory of the Psychozoic era, a proto...

...Michael Maguire Abstract This essay illuminates the history of what David Foster Wallace dubbed the “conspicuously young” novelist (CYN), drawing on a series of brief case studies (F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Radiguet, Carson McCullers, Truman Capote, Sylvia Plath, and James Baldwin...

...Michelle N. Huang Abstract Illuminating how biomedical capital invests in white and Asian American populations while divesting from Black surplus populations, this article proposes recent Asian American dystopian fiction provides a case study for analyzing futurities where healthcare...

... cannot be reduced to a prompt. Some have noted that literary creations generated or augmented by artificial intelligence at best can offer form without meaning; using a GPT creation prompted by Maya Angelou’s poem “Still I Rise” as a case study, this essay argues that NLP’s predictive language generation...