... as consumers 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...

...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 Narratives. By...

...Tina Chen Abstract This article proposes ethical alienation as a critical pedagogical practice by analyzing the neoteric critical consolidation of Asian American literary and cultural studies, a consolidation marked by the recent (and near simultaneous) publication of four major compendiums— The...

...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 American Women...

... 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 of...

...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 in...

...- sciously aware of the Africa she left and critical of the system that brought hertoAmerica. In formalist and materialist readings of Wheatley, Lee, and Jackson, Bas- sard challenges critics who dismiss...

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...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 . By Leslie Butler...

...Joseph Helminski 2006 Canons by Consensus: Critical Trends and American Literary Anthologies . By Joseph Csicsila. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. xx, 262 pp. $38.50. Books, Maps, and Politics: A Cultural History of the Library of Congress, 1783-1861 . By Carl Ostrowski. Amherst: Univ...

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... 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 that these...

... 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 field of...

...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. of Nebraska...

... deal of the right ground fairly quickly (here the plot summaries are useful, it presents its argument clearly. And unlike much of the criticism of ‘‘borderland’’ writers, it establishes the genres’ connections to traditional European literary categories, such as the romance and the utopian novel...

... © 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 Powell. Chapel Hill...