...Ryan Schneider Duke University Press 2006 Hard-Boiled Masculinities . By Christopher Breu. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2005. 245 pp. Paper, $19.95. Cool Men and the Second Sex . By Susan Fraiman. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2003. xxiii, 212 pp. Cloth, $62.50...

...Daniel Chaskes Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction . By Konstantinou Lee . Cambridge, MA : Harvard Univ. Press . 2016 . xiii, 368 pp. Cloth , $39.95 ; e-book available. Death beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference . By Hong Grace Kyungwon...

...Joel Dinerstein Duke University Press 2007 Blowin' Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics . By John Gennari. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2006. xiv, 480 pp. $35.00. Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing . By David Yaffe. Trenton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press...

...Jordan S. Carroll Through an examination of some of the science-fiction stories published in Playboy magazine from 1953 to 1973, this essay shows that futuristic narratives were integral to the magazine’s editorial sensibility, which suggested that intimate life should be governed by the cool...

..., as well as those that inform and motivate our work in the first place—in relative and relational terms. Apathy is more than a generational disposition of postmoderns or the cool, emotionless province of “critique” that Rita Felski identifies with what she (after the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur) names...

... and colonization of Mars. Focusing on narrative scenarios and exercises that train officials to respond to natural disasters, this essay positions these preparedness documents as part of a system of affective management. They teach participants to cultivate a feeling of neutral detachment—to stay calm and cool so...

... became the largely white cool school of postbop jazz. Before cool was ever a category, Baraka reminds us, it was first a state of mind, circulated, like swing, in the black community. Drawing out the cultural implications of Davis’s cool style, Baraka writes: The term cool in its original context...

... © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Announcement Call for Papers: Ecocriticism Although ecocriticism was largely developed by Americanists in English departments in the western United States and marked by a coolness toward the theoretical and historicist methods of its day...

... . Alien Phenomenology; or, What It’s Like to Be a Thing . Minneapolis : Minnesota Univ. Press . Brown Bill . 2001 . “ Thing Theory .” Critical Inquiry 28 , no. 1 : 1 – 22 . Cather Willa . (1936) 1988 . Not Under Forty . Lincoln : Univ. of Nebraska Press . Coole...

... writing, not to mention the very sound of language (229–30). There is a fascinating little turn on the language of naming and the nicknames of her father’s friends—Duke, Lover, Cool Breeze, Jim the Devil—which Morrison says contained a “kind of teaching about the history of black people,” as did...

... hours for your blood to get cool enough to let you sleep and even weeks for your hair to stop grow- ing. The water, the cool, to cool you quick so you can sleep, to wash out of your brain and out of your eyes and out of your blood all you ever saw and thought and felt and wanted and denied...

... Schuyler’s 1931 Black No More and Nathanael West’s 1934 A Cool Million exemplify modernist burlesque. Both novels parody conventional genres of upward mobility, such as passing narra- tives and “rags-to-riches” fiction, and in the process, they lay bare unspoken classist and racial assumptions about...

...: Latin America and the United States . Albuquerque : Univ. of New Mexico Press . Cooling Benjamin Franklin , ed. 1979 . Combat Operations. Vol. 4 of The New American State Papers: Military Affairs . 19 vols. Wilmington, DE : Scholarly Resources . Corré Jacob I . 2002...

.... The earthquake and tsunami also disabled the cool- ing systems of one of Japan’s larger nuclear power plants, Fukushima Daiichi. Despite the heroic efforts of Fukushima’s workers and assis- tance from a global group of experts, three of the plant’s six reac- tors reached a state of partial...

... into the cool and delicious chocolate-and-vanilla swirl of biracialism. Recent work in this celebratory vein includes Maria P. P. Root’s Love’s Revolution: Inter- racial Marriage (2001), Monika Kaup and Debra J. Rosenthal’s Mixing Race...

... a “fantasy of neglect” as she traces “historical shifts” in the relationship between neglect and the imaginaries of childhood and the urban space. The monograph turns to media such as The Dead End (1937), Baby Burlesks (1932), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), The Cool World (1963), and Extremely Loud...

... to the vitality and vigor of this expanding and shifting literary field. Rafael Pérez-Torres, University of California, Los Angeles DOI 10.1215/00029831-2006-066 Hard-Boiled Masculinities. By Christopher Breu. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2005. 245 pp. Paper, $19.95. Cool Men and the Second...

... to the vitality and vigor of this expanding and shifting literary field. Rafael Pérez-Torres, University of California, Los Angeles DOI 10.1215/00029831-2006-066 Hard-Boiled Masculinities. By Christopher Breu. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2005. 245 pp. Paper, $19.95. Cool Men and the Second...

... to the vitality and vigor of this expanding and shifting literary field. Rafael Pérez-Torres, University of California, Los Angeles DOI 10.1215/00029831-2006-066 Hard-Boiled Masculinities. By Christopher Breu. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2005. 245 pp. Paper, $19.95. Cool Men and the Second...

.... 245 pp. Paper, $19.95. Cool Men and the Second Sex. By Susan Fraiman. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2003. xxiii, 212 pp. Cloth, $62.50; paper, $24.50. Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of Identity. By Daniel Y. Kim. Stanford, Calif...