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...Jeehyun Lim Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature . By Ninh Erin Khue . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2011 . vii, 205 pp. Cloth , $70.00 ; paper , $23.00 . How to Be South Asian in America: Narratives of Ambivalence and Belonging...

...Mikko Tuhkanen Duke University Press 2007 Mikko ​“Out of Joint”: Passing, Haunting, and Tuhkanen the Time of Slavery in Hagar’s Daughter . . . that mystic clock, whose ticking is rarely heard in the slaveholder’s breast.—Harriet Jacobs...

...Thomas W. Devine © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s . By James Gilbert. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2005. x, 269 pp. $39.00. Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Postwar American Culture...

...Philip Gould © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Men of Letters in the Early Republic: Cultivating Forums of Citizenship . By Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2008. viii, 239 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $24.95. Prodigal Daughters: Susanna...

... to reclaim the daughter or wife through renewed familial structures able to accommodate and, in some ways, modify the patriarchal claims of market capitalism. Although the focus of Stange’s study is on white slavery literature, there are substantial chapters that place Kate Chopin’s The Awakening...

...Susan Kurjiaka By Susan M. Stabile. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2004. xiii, 284 pp.$34.95. By Janet Gray. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2004. viii, 324 pp.$44.95. 2005 Book Reviews Memory’s Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America...

... publisher suggested the title “Native Daughter.” To concentrate an assessment of Wright's black female domestic servants solely on the portrayal of Bessie Mears in Native Son obscures the radical evolution in his construction of the black female domestic servant from Mears to Ollie Knight (“Black Hope...

... official biography (1912) to reminiscences of Twain’s daughter (Clara Clemons), longtime servant (Katy Leary), and friends (William Dean Howells, Joseph Twitchell) and on to the work of major academic scholars such as Justin Kaplan, Louis Budd, and Hamlin Hill. What all these writers suppressed...

... Brown, Clotel, or The Presi- dent’s Daughter Perhaps the most disturbing aspects of Carolivia Herron’s 1991 novel Thereafter Johnnie are the eroticized incestuous...

... McIntosh’s The Lofty and the Lowly (1853), Harriet Hamline Bigelow’s The Curse Entailed (1857), Van Buren Denslow’s Owned and Disowned (1857), Eliza A. Dupuy’s The Planter’s Daughter (1857)—these and various other midcentury novels about slavery and plantation life in the South offer lengthy...

... that of kinship, as Candace turns to performing reproductive labor for her unborn daughter as her way of recontracting to reproduce her world. Meanwhile, in Minari , we encounter an Asian American male protagonist who cannot carry a child but who undergoes becoming reproductive through child-rearing. Jacob Yi...

... daughter, Scottie, and notes, “All around, people speak pidgin English and glare at the two of us like we’re crazy white fools, even though we’re Hawaiian. But we don’t look it, and we don’t count as true or real Hawaiians because we don’t talk right either” (Hemmings 2007 : 18). The King family looks...

...Figure 2 Moriko Halfwolf training her daughter in self-defense. From Liu and Takeda ( 2017 ), The Blood. Vol. 2 of Monstress ...

... lovers in the world Rather than dismissing this as the effervescence of a character immersed in female worlds of love and ritual, Kent sees in the statement the trace of an ‘‘identificatory erotics’’ at the heart of such mother-daughter relationships. In the fictional and historical worlds of Alcott...

... American neighbor Virginia Prentiss; his first wife, Bess Maddern; lover and collaborator Anna Strunsky Walling; his stepsister Eliza London Shepard; and his two daughters by his first marriage, Joan London Miller and Becky London...

... multiplicity. After its initial publication in 1853, William Wells Brown would continue writing and rewriting his novel of slavery and escape for another fourteen years. By the end of his life, he had published four versions of it—first, as the most famous 1853 text, Clotel; or the President’s Daughter...

... presents the story of a faithful Israelite judge, Jephthah, who sacrifices his only daughter to fulfill a vow to God, although God did not initiate or require the covenant. The episode discomfited Puritan ministers and presents an interesting challenge to scholars of early American literature. Puritans...

... aspirations. Moysheles decides to entrust his capital to his sons-in-law so that he can retire and move to Palestine. This decision generates tensions between himself and his three daughters (modeled on Lear’s daughters), and Moysheles’s daughter’s tutor (and later, her husband) warns Moysheles that his fate...