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... or tools of production. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 pedagogy liberal education American literature neoliberalism metacognition critical agents social change Calling on the work of Edward Said, Henry Giroux ( 2012 ) suggests that teaching must be rooted in the world...

... a rereading of Wheatley’s work as well as her life; in so doing, she constructs a young prodigy who is con- sciously aware of the Africa she left and critical of the system that brought hertoAmerica...

.... Native American Drama: A Critical Perspective . By Christy Stanlake. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2009. xi, 242 pp. Cloth, $99.00; paper, $35.99. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Book Reviews Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible. By Robert Alter. Princeton...

... of transatlantic culture. Matt Cohen, Duke University John David Miles, Duke University American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880–1995. By Phillip...

... and liberation continues this critical trend. Following other theorists, Mitchell recasts slave narratives as principally ‘‘liberatory Focusing on the politi- cal and psychological agency demonstrated by female characters who escape enslavement, Mitchell displaces the labels ‘‘slave’’ and ‘‘neoslave arguing...

..., all solidly historicist and all meant to recuper- ate his radicalism while facing its limits. Together, they add up to an important reassessment of Emerson’s cultural politics based on dialectical synthesis of the polarized critical positions that have gone before. Laura Dassow Walls opens a new...

...Scott Andrews By Elvira Pulitano. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2003. x, 233 pp.$50.00. By Paul Pasquaretta. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press. 2003. xviii, 202 pp.$40.00. 2005 204 American Literature Toward a Native American Critical Theory. By Elvira Pulitano. Lincoln: Univ...

... genres. These shortcomings are not major weaknesses if the volume is intended as a basic introduction, a role it ably fills. Cover- ing a great deal of the right ground fairly quickly (here the plot summaries are useful, it presents its argument clearly. And unlike much of the criticism...

...Crystal Parikh The Fiction of South Asians in North America and the Caribbean: A Critical Study of English-Language Works since 1950. By Mitali P. Wong and Zia Hasan. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2004. ix, 142 pp. Paper, $35.00. The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American...

... 2008 General Josefina Niggli, Mexican American Writer: A Critical Biography . By Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez. Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press. 2007. x, 317 pp. Paper, $24.95. Brief Mention Editions Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate: A Tale of the Times...

... exigencies of our time. This volume presents an opportunity to integrate discipline- and field-specific knowledges more fully into a critical discussion of pedagogy. By leveraging the location of our teaching as developing out of specific scholarly concerns, this special issue illustrates the intersection...

... Grande’s The Distance between Us (2012), and Dan-el Padilla Peralta’s Undocumented (2015) as examples of the critical DREAMer memoir, foregrounding suppressed and subversive self-representation. Such self-fashionings are constrained by overachievement while still troubling the myth of meritocracy...

...Rita Raley; Jennifer Rhee Our pedagogical norms are not yet prepared for a world in which AIs can be prompted to write original scholarly compositions with relative ease. Our students are already experimenting with AIs for humanistic analysis and critical writing, and it is getting much harder...

...Magdalena J. Zaborowska Unbought and Unbossed: Transgressive Black Women, Sexuality, and Representation . By Melancon Trimiko . Philadelphia, PA : Temple Univ. Press . 2014 . xv, 235 pp. Cloth , $74.50 ; paper, $26.95 ; e-book, $26.95 . Critical Appropriations: African...

... with elaborating what she describes as “meaningful dialogue between literary works at the far reaches of the detective fiction genre and those at its center.” Making a genuinely deep contribution to the critical analysis genre, Robinson notes how a genre like detective fiction may be present in individual works...

...Adam Gordon Abstract This essay takes the critical reception of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Frederick Douglass’ Paper as an occasion to rethink modern constructions of critical authority while arguing for a print culture approach to literary criticism. Although scholars of antebellum culture typically...

... according to the reigning canons of scholarly importance. If early critics of the Jewish American literary field celebrated this emergence, its ethic of assimilation was starkly at odds with an increasingly influential multiculturalism, even as these critics relied on an implicit multicultural logic...

...Kenneth Kidd A Literature of Questions: Nonfiction for the Critical Child . By Joe Sutliff Sanders . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2018 . 274 pp. Cloth, $100.00 ; paper, $25.00 ; e-book, $23.75 . Was the Cat in the Hat Black? The Hidden Racism of Children’s...

... © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 American Literary Regionalism in a Global Age . By Philip Joseph. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2007. xii, 232 pp. $45.00. Critical Regionalism: Connecting Politics and Culture in the American Landscape . By Douglas Reichert...

...Allen Hibbard © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Atlantic Republic: The American Tradition in English Literature . By Paul Giles. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford Univ. Press. 2006. xii, 419 pp. $115.00. Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform...