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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 206–208.
Published: 01 March 2005
.... of Chicago Press. 2004. 471 pp. Cloth,
$49.50; paper, $25.00.
A Desire for Women: Relational Psychoanalysis, Writing, and Relationships be-
tween Women. By Suzanne Juhasz. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press.
2003. x, 247 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.00.
An infant and mother gaze into each...
Journal Article
American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 160–161.
Published: 01 March 2002
... their voices from docu-
ments created by ministers for purposes of their own and restores these voices
to specific dialogues, within a cultural space threatened by centrifugal social
and political forces and filled with the concomitant desires for community and
security.
Henigman constructs her first...
Journal Article
American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 174–176.
Published: 01 March 2002
... England excavates their voices from docu-
ments created by ministers for purposes of their own and restores these voices
to specific dialogues, within a cultural space threatened by centrifugal social
and political forces and filled with the concomitant desires for community and
security.
Henigman...
Journal Article
Down on All Fours: Atavistic Perversions and the Science of Desire from Frank Norris to Djuna Barnes
American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 525–562.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Dana Seitler Duke University Press 2001 Dana Seitler Down on All Fours: Atavistic Perversions and
the Science of Desire from Frank Norris to
Djuna Barnes
[T]here is truly a brute brain within the man’s, and when
the latter...
Journal Article
American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 188–189.
Published: 01 March 2001
... division and graduate) will find The National
Uncanny accessible, useful, and interesting. Its pairings of authors can stand
alone to complement the primary texts of a survey course or seminar.
Scott Andrews, California State University, Northridge
Cartographies of Desire: Captivity, Race, and Sex...
Journal Article
American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 202–203.
Published: 01 March 2001
... division and graduate) will find The National
Uncanny accessible, useful, and interesting. Its pairings of authors can stand
alone to complement the primary texts of a survey course or seminar.
Scott Andrews, California State University, Northridge
Cartographies of Desire: Captivity, Race, and Sex...
Journal Article
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 389–411.
Published: 01 June 2011
...: Death and Desire in Samuel R. Delany’s
Reid-Pharr Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
Far from apologizing for their promiscuity as a failure to
maintain a loving relationship, far from welcoming the
return to monogamy as a beneficent...
Journal Article
American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 447–449.
Published: 01 June 2003
.... Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell Univ. Press; Cranbury,
N.J.: Associated Univ. Presses. 2002. 223 pp. $42.50.
Sublime Desire: History and Post–1960s Fiction. By Amy J. Elias. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins Univ. Press. 2001...
Journal Article
American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 621–624.
Published: 01 September 2008
... costs” of
embracing a market that allows self-making on a scale adequate to his desire,
and thus as one shot through with “continual oscillation between the refined
and the coarse” (xix). Lawson understands this tension as “Whitman’s essen-
tial dilemma,” one that is reflected...
Journal Article
American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 199–200.
Published: 01 March 2009
.... However, Sherry does not advocate such an emphasis—it is simply
the terrain of his archive—and the book’s evidentiary thoroughness renders
an objection like mine less a critique and more a desire for a sequel.
One gets the clear sense from Foster’s and Sherry’s books that lesbian and
gay history...
Journal Article
American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 833–836.
Published: 01 December 2009
... and Economic Desire in American Fiction, 1789–1814 . By Karen A. Weyler. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2005. x, 269 pp. Cloth, $41.00; paper, $21.00. The Work of the Heart: Young Women and Emotion, 1780–1830 . By Martha Tom-have Blauvelt. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2007. xi, 275 pp...
Journal Article
American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 654–656.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Stefanie K. Dunning A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire . By Hiram Pérez . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2015 . xi, 179 pp. Cloth , $89.00 ; paper, $26.00 ; e-book available. Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington...
Journal Article
American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 398–400.
Published: 01 June 2006
...Leonard Cassuto 2006 To Hell and Back: Race and Betrayal in the Southern Novel . By Jeff Abernathy. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2003. xii, 240 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $18.95. Race, Work, and Desire in American Literature, 1860-1930 . By Michele Birnbaum. New York...
Journal Article
American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 487–517.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Denise Cruz Duke University Press 2006 Denise Reconsidering McTeague’s ‘‘Mark’’ and ‘‘Mac
Cruz Intersections of U.S. Naturalism, Imperial
Masculinities, and Desire between Men
In a scene that seems out of place amid McTeague’s
minutely...
Journal Article
American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 221–250.
Published: 01 June 2018
... ( 2016 ) of the title character’s black female comrades-in-arms, this reading interrogates how race consciousness and colonial legacies inform the discourses of desire operating within the text. The term desiring blackness describes an orientation to reading that defers to African Americanist and black...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 361–388.
Published: 01 June 2010
... about empathy that defined this concept quite differently from current usages. Rather than designating an interpersonal dynamic, this discourse considered empathy as a relation among bodies, objects, and desire within capitalism. Yezierska's fashion-conscious characters reveal a United States...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 141–166.
Published: 01 March 2008
... as a celebratory model of either an ideal embodied pluralism or a free-floating deconstructive signifier. It presents an alternative model in Islas's use of hybridity for critiquing readerly desires for identity representation and common, everyday habits of thinking of identity in terms of a one-to-one relation...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 553–581.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Jonathan Vincent Vincent considers the way U.S. literature of the 1920s and 1930s used the rhetorical occasion of World War I to promote revisions of U.S. liberalism and its prevailing ideologies of citizenship. Urged on by desires for a more cohesive polity, Vincent argues, numerous war novelists...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 305–329.
Published: 01 June 2011
... over nature. By the time the novels were adapted into films, however, aerial bombardment had come to seem monstrously unnatural, a technology serving racialized colonial governance. The Tarzan films made in the 1930s, this essay argues, use flight to describe a very different fantasy, the desire...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 117–145.
Published: 01 March 2014
... Marshall’s novel Praisesong for the Widow (1983) and Audre Lorde’s biomythography Zami (1982), the essay demonstrates how US black feminist literature used Hurston’s work as a stimulant and script for representing the Caribbean as a free zone of individual autonomy and desire outside of hegemonic...
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