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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 600–603.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Lisa Lynch Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics . By Holloway Karla F. C. . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2011 . 225 pp. Cloth , $79.95 ; paper , $22.95 . Reading Embodied Citizenship: Disability, Narrative, and the Body Politic...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 895–897.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Etsuko Taketani Tricksters and Cosmopolitans: Cross-Cultural Collaborations in Asian American Literary Production . By Rei Magosaki . New York : Fordham Univ. Press . 2016 . viii, 157 pp. Cloth, $90.00 ; paper, $25.00 ; e-book, $24.99 . East-West Literary Imagination...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 413–415.
Published: 01 June 2006
...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...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 639–641.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Jonathan Arac © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 The Rites of Identity: The Religious Naturalism and Cultural Criticism of Kenneth Burke and Ralph Ellison . By Beth Eddy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2003. xi, 204 pp. $55.00. Book Reviews Freedom’s Empire: Race...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 863–866.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Lauren Coats © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production, 1500–1900 . Ed. Martin Brückner and Hsuan L. Hsu. Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press. 2007. 367 pp. $65.00. Novels, Maps, Modernity: The Spatial...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 656–658.
Published: 01 September 2010
.... Gilmore’s terrifically ambitious, wide-ranging second chapter takes up this question with respect to Lord Byron, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Herman Melville. Originally pub- lished in a special issue of American Literature on “Aesthetics and the End(s) of Cultural Studies” (76 [September 2004 “Aesthetic...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 659–661.
Published: 01 September 2010
.... Gilmore’s terrifically ambitious, wide-ranging second chapter takes up this question with respect to Lord Byron, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Herman Melville. Originally pub- lished in a special issue of American Literature on “Aesthetics and the End(s) of Cultural Studies” (76 [September 2004 “Aesthetic...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 839–841.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Richard T. Rodríguez © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Border Renaissance: The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Mexican American Literature . By John Morán González. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press. 2009. xiv, 259 pp. $50.00. Mainland Passage: The Cultural Anomaly...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 661–662.
Published: 01 September 2010
.... Gilmore’s terrifically ambitious, wide-ranging second chapter takes up this question with respect to Lord Byron, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Herman Melville. Originally pub- lished in a special issue of American Literature on “Aesthetics and the End(s) of Cultural Studies” (76 [September 2004 “Aesthetic...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 851–853.
Published: 01 December 2010
... doubts about the existence of a national identity. In the United States, for example, war, immigration, and westward settlement all suggest contrary and conflicting cultures, values, and purposes, rather than any impulse toward unity. Writers such as Josiah Strong, Frederick Jackson...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 188–190.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Andy Doolen © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Rome Reborn on Western Shores: Historical Imagination and the Creation of the American Republic. By Eran Shalev. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2009. xiii, 311 pp. $45.00. The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 355–388.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Ramzi Fawaz Dismissed for decades as juvenile entertainment, comic books had by the early 1970s come of age as America's “native art”: taught on Ivy League campuses, studied by European scholars and filmmakers, and taken up as a new generation's cultural critique of American society. The cultural...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 217–219.
Published: 01 March 2011
... and the Creation of the American Republic. By Eran Shalev. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2009. xiii, 311 pp. $45.00. The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution. By Eric Slauter. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2009. xii, 373 pp. $40.00. Democracy’s Spectacle...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 463–466.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Elizabeth Archuleta Native Liberty: Natural Reason and Cultural Survivance . By Gerald Vizenor. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2009. ix, 321 pp. Paper, $30.00. Writing Indian, Native Conversations . By John Lloyd Purdy. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2009. xvii, 282 pp. $45.00...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 468–471.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Victor Bascara The Interethnic Imagination: Roots and Passages in Contemporary Asian American Fiction . By Caroline Rody. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2009. xx, 196 pp. $65.00. The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies: Autonomy and Representation in the University . By Mark Chiang...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 781–809.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Gary Hall What forms will literary and cultural criticism take in the twenty-first century, given the move toward open access, open data, and open government that is currently being promoted in the name of greater efficiency and transparency? Will the growing use of digital tools and data-led...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 177–184.
Published: 01 March 2013
... Racism and Violence in Current US Literary and Cultural Criticism Represent and Destroy: Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capi- talism. By Jodi Melamed. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2011. 304 pp. Paper, $25.00. Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 413–416.
Published: 01 June 2013
... . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2012 . 292 pp. $99.00 . On the Outskirts of Form: Practicing Cultural Poetics . By Davidson Michael . Middletown, CT : Wesleyan Univ. Press . 2011 . 344 pp. Cloth , $80.00 ; paper , $27.95 ; e-book , $21.99 . Purple Passages: Pound, Eliot...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 593–596.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Evie Shockley Spectacular Blackness: The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic . By Ongiri Amy Abugo . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2010 . x, 223 pp. Cloth , $55.00 ; paper , $22.50 . Specters of Democracy...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 432–433.
Published: 01 June 2000
... role of providence tales, ‘‘stories that relate the activities of God on earth in the inception of American litera- ture—specifically, the American novel—and in certain ‘‘cultural motifs that have reverberated...