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...Laura Henigman Miraculous Plagues: An Epidemiology of Early New England Narrative . By Silva Cristobal . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2011 . xii , 239 pp. Cloth , $74.00 . The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England . By Rivett Sarah . Chapel Hill : Univ...

...Gerry Canavan © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction . By John Rieder. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan Univ. Press. 2008. xii, 183 pp. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $24.95. Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor...

..., eclectics comprised an epistemic community that connected disciplines across religious, geographical, and imperial frontiers. Keywords colonial science, empire, moon, space, Brazil Early historians of science held two overlapping misperceptions. The rst, at the beginning of the twentieth century, stemmed...

... mode of cultural production, and it is from this deep understanding of empire (in both its colonial and neocolonial forms) that the genre produces rich cosmopolitan alternatives to imperial discourse and practice. One example of science fiction's successful interrogation of cosmopolitan concerns can...

... that the crucibles of New World colonialism and Atlantic slavery played in a Scienti c Revolution and Enlightenment long presumed to be a strictly European affair, neatly conforming to anachronistic disciplinary divides and straightforwardly re ecting modernity s supposedly secularizing tendencies. Marrying science...

...) knowledge traditions resulting from the colonial encounters in the Americas. Though often erased from and invisible in the colonial text, the Indigenous contributions to the production of knowledge by Native collaborators or informants became one of the epistemic foundations for the new empirical sciences...

... persons, modern revolutions in science and epistemology therefore played a key role in sparking a broader discourse about the justice and legality of slavery. The following sections focus primarily on two different episodes of legal and moral debate. I rst turn to the Massachusetts Bay Colony...

... of colonial medical discourse shows the fluid boundaries between religion and science in colonial America and reveals the consequences of that fluidity for relations among Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans. The monographs share as well lively transatlantic engagements, attending to the circulations...

... figure with the French “absent agronomist” (9)—the Enlightenment theorist of a new agricultural and economic science who reaped the profits of stolen land and enslaved labor and whose plantation flourished in the soil of colonial Saint-Domingue. 4 Though Makandal was not present at the later events...

... Narrative by Cristobal Silva; The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England by Sarah Rivett, 190–92. Heuving, Jeanne. Review: The Darkness of the Present: Poetics, Anachronism, and the Anomaly by Steve McCaffery; Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry by Srikanth Reddy...

... of interpretation but of vision Jehlen disagrees not with the politics of this revisionist colonial scholarship but with its methods, which 898 American Literature attend to context at the expense of text, appropriating all agency inscribed in a text to support the critic’s own foregone conclusions...

... depictions of risk to realistic ones, this essay examines fictions of nuclear waste commissioned by the Department of Energy to show that a risk-based realism is used to maintain the status quo of settler colonialism. It then turns to a countermodeling of the futures of nuclear waste by Leslie Marmon Silko...

... science would attain in the context of a burgeoning British colonial project in the New World (467). That hegemony is evidenced in the eighteenth-century genre of Anglo-American natural history writing, which has been the focus of generative early Americanist scholarship such as Susan Scott Parrish s...

... of a much more profound challenge that sees racial capitalism, coloniality, and white supremacy as the conditions of possibility for calculative and computational media writ large. Sylvia Wynter’s work on genres of the human, the racial basis for Western science, the theory of selection/dysselection (among...

... Narrative . By Pfister Jude M. . Jefferson, NC : McFarland . 2014 . x, 205 pp. Paper , $35.00 ; e-book available. Relativism, Alternate History, and the Forgetful Reader: Reading Science Fiction and Historiography . By Thiess Derek J. . New York : Lexington Books . 2015 . vii, 175...

... the familiar account of European colonization and Enlightenment science as interlinked projects that resulted in human epistemological domination of an inert object world. While she also finds the American colonies a key site for drawing forth more ecological mate- rialist legacies, she is especially...

... in The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction could be an entire book in its own right. Nowhere is this more true than in my favorite chapter, “The Technologiade,” which examines how SF story patterns are informed by the narrative structures of modern colonial adventure tales, gothic romances, and utopian...

... for experimentation with gentler, unortho- dox treatments. As Twain pursued one new remedy after another, he learned that even if the science does not help the disease, the hope it offers may help the patient—an insight, Ober argues, still useful to doctors and patients today. Ober’s touching account...

... is normal. Kwakiutl L. Dreher, University of Nebraska, Lincoln DOI 10.1215/00029831-2010-009 Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction. By John Rieder. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan Univ. Press. 2008. xii, 183 pp. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $24.95. Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American...

... is normal. Kwakiutl L. Dreher, University of Nebraska, Lincoln DOI 10.1215/00029831-2010-009 Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction. By John Rieder. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan Univ. Press. 2008. xii, 183 pp. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $24.95. Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American...