... technological sovereignties. Focused on the more critical end of these studies, this review brings together three new multiauthored books to ask what we critique when we critique technology today. Scholars interested in literature and technology—usually found in disciplines and departments such as languages...

... American Literature ist theories in women’s studies, advocating instead a ‘‘culturalist’’ approach in which gender is seen as a symbolic quality that is ‘‘at least as much about interconnectedness as [it is] about power’’ (40). Bloch’s first chapter offers an incisive critique of prevailing trends...

... The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture. By David Bergman. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2003. xviii, 304 pp. Cloth, $62.50; paper, $24.50. Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique. By Roderick A. Ferguson. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2004. x, 175 pp...

...: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2003. xi, 283 pp. $47.50; Imagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique . By Kandice Chuh. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. xii, 215 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95. Book Reviews The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Mo...

... Joy Harjo’s poem ‘‘Deer Dancer Sara Lundquist, University of Toledo The Visionary Moment: A Postmodern Critique. By Paul Maltby. Albany: SUNY Press. 2002. xi, 176 pp. Cloth, $54.50; paper, $17.95...

... ; e-book , $50.00 . Pluralist Universalism: An Asian Americanist Critique of US and Chinese Multiculturalisms . By Jin Wen . Columbus : Ohio State Univ. Press . 2012 . xvii , 224 pp. Cloth , $52.95 ; CD , $14.95 . © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 844  American Literature...

...Joseph Helminski © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 The Origins of American Literature Studies: An Institutional History . By Elizabeth Renker. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2007. xii, 219 pp. $98.00. Critique for What? Cultural Studies, American Studies, Left Studies...

..., in which a threat to black physical and psychological selfhood is advanced as a threat to white social and ethical selfhood. He is not alone in highlighting this rhetorical tradition; whereas his writers engage religious rhetoric as their means of critique, Stone’s account of well-being suggests this same...

...Gary Edward Holcomb Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique . By Robert F. Reid-Pharr . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2016 . xiii, 257 pp. Cloth, $89.00 ; paper, $28.00 ; e-book available. Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation...

...Patricia E. Chu Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South . By Leslie Bow. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2010. x, 285 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00. Ends of Empire: Asian American Critique and the Cold War . By Jodi Kim. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota...

... historical connection between nineteenth-century reform culture and the contemporary queer critique of the progressive “marriage equality” movement. But in their ultimate turn back to marriage, they shed new light on the puzzling persistence of this institution, even for those who see its faults most clearly...

...Claire Fox A World Not to Come: A History of Latino Writing and Print Culture . By Coronado Raúl . Cambridge : Harvard Univ. Press . 2013 . xviii , 555 pp. $48.95 . Américo Paredes: Culture and Critique . By Limón José E. . Austin : Univ. of Texas Press . 2012 . xii...

...Colbey Emmerson Reid © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Ashes Taken for Fire: Aesthetic Modernism and the Critique of Identity . By Kevin Bell. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2007. x, 252 pp. Cloth, $67.50; paper, $22.50. Modernism on File: Writers, Artists...

...Frank Kelderman Red Ink: Native Americans Picking up the Pen in the Colonial Period . By Lopenzina Drew . Albany : State Univ. of New York Press . 2012 . xxix , 412 pp. Cloth , $95.00 ; paper , $29.95 . The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism . By Byrd...

...Steve Anderson Anderson’s author statement introduces a Scalar project titled “Chaos and Control: The Critique of Computation in American Commercial Media (1950-1980),” which examines the critiques of computing culture posed by TV and movies during the mainframe computer age by looking closely...

...-Anthropocene theory from 1877 that named a new unit of geologic time in light of humanity’s status as a transformative planetary force. Norris adapted this theory into a critique of a rapidly globalizing capitalism’s effects on the planet and the natural world, particularly the structures of agricultural...

... be found in Ursula K. Le Guin's Hainish novels. Unlike the work of many other SF authors from the 1960s and 1970s, Le Guin's extrapolations develop throughout her Hainish cycle beyond a straightforward negative critique of imperialism toward a positive and creative conceptualization of cosmopolitan...

... attention to the elements of the novel that made it unpublishable for almost fifty years. Attending closely to this tension brings forward the novel's insistent depiction of the historical impossibility of both subjectivity and literary production in the 1930s. The novel critiques and ironizes both...

...Megan Obourn Through a reading of Arturo Islas's posthumously published La Mollie and the King of Tears , this essay offers a critique of liberal, multicultural uses of postcolonial hybridity in the context of U.S. literature and literary criticism. The essay reviews current uses of hybridity...

... (1967) mounts a fierce critique of objectivity, instrumental to the conduct of the war, Hanoi (1968) forgoes journalistic convention altogether in favor of a subjective account of McCarthy’s difficult experience in North Vietnam. Taken together, these volumes chart a course from detached commentary...