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...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...

...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...

...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...

... to bring this or the many other social entanglements of AI/ML into view, both Data / Set / Match and The Cultural Life of Machine Learning provide—and themselves serve as—vital context for future inquiry. A shared strategy among the exhibiting artists is superimposition. In Tunnel Vision , Philipp...

... 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...

... 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 throughout American culture’’ (14). In his examination...

...Jenine Abboushi Dallal Duke University Press 2001 Jenine American Imperialism UnManifest: Abboushi Emerson’s ‘‘Inquest’’ and Cultural Regeneration Dallal Mr. Calhoun: [T]he single question is, does the con- stitution extend...

... of cultural categories based on nationhood. For Gravil, the prevail- ing academic boundary between American and British literatures makes little sense when these two supposedly distinct traditions are so clearly interdepen- dent. Challenging the conventional notion that American literature emerged from...

... the validity of cultural categories based on nationhood. For Gravil, the prevail- ing academic boundary between American and British literatures makes little sense when these two supposedly distinct traditions are so clearly interdepen- dent. Challenging the conventional notion that American literature...

...Caroline Reitz Duke University Press 2007 A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought . By Stephen Kern. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2004. 584 pp. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $22.95. Paradigms of Paranoia: The Culture of Conspiracy...

... © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction . By James W. Coleman. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2006. 252 pp. $42.95. Cross-Cultural Visions in African...

...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...

...Jessica Bardill Native Acts: Law, Recognition, and Cultural Authenticity . By Barker Joanne . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2011 . ix , 284 pp. Cloth , $84.95 ; paper , $23.95 . Domestic Subjects: Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature . By Piatote...

... on various colonial discourses in the early Americas. Born out of an international conference sponsored by the McNeil Center and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, this col- lection contains no less than seventeen innovative essays on how individuals and societies ‘‘became...

...Edwin J. Barton Duke University Press 2006 Flint on a Bright Stone: A Revolution of Precision and Restraint in American, Russian, and German Modernism . By Kirsten Blythe Painter. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2006. xx, 306 pp. $60.00. Modernism: A Cultural History...

... in the United States in three distinct historical periods. The author challenges the celebration of early Arab American literary figures (1900–1920) like Ameen Rihani, Khalil Gibran, and Abraham Rihbany through a critique of their diasporic role as cultural translators, locating them at the intersection...

...James Dawes 2006 A Forgetful Nation: On Integration and Cultural Identity in the United States . By Ali Behdad. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2005. xvii, 212 pp. Cloth, $74.95; paper, $21.95. The Languages of Difference: American Writers and Anthropologists Reconfigure...

...Christopher Newfield 2006 Modern Women, Modern Work: Domesticity, Professionalism, and American Writing, 1890-1950 . By Francesca Sawaya. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2003. 198 pp. $42.50. The Business of America: The Cultural Production of a Post-War Nation...

...Holly Flint Duke University Press 2006 Holly Toni Morrison’s Paradise: Flint Black Cultural Citizenship in the American Empire In 1980 historian William Appleman Williams warned that the only way to create viable American identities...

...Jeffory A. Clymer Duke University Press 2006 Rewriting White: Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Nineteenth-Century America . By Todd Vogel. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2004. x, 194 pp. Cloth, $62.00; paper, $22.95. The Syntax of Class: Writing Inequality...