...Nicole M. Merola This essay considers Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis (2003) as a literary act of witnessing that diagnoses the devastating socioecological footprint of globalized cybercapitalism. Employing Marxist and ecocritical accounts of materiality and environment as analytic categories, Merola...

... traumatic events produce formal changes in narrative strategies that reflect transformations in historical and political thinking, but many 9/11 novels, like Don DeLillo's Falling Man , do not demonstrate significant formal departures from pre-9/11 works. Others, like Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud...

...Don L. Cook By Cyrus R. K. Patell. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2001. xxiv, 239 pp. Paper, $18.95. Ed. Luc Herman. Hamilton, Ohio: Miami University. 1999. 342 pp. Paper , $10.00. 2002 Book Reviews The American Puritan Elegy: A Literary and Cultural Study. By Jeffrey A...

...Don James McLaughlin Abstract Through an analysis of Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country (1894) by Joel Chandler Harris and The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales (1899) by Charles Chesnutt, this essay attempts to account for a late nineteenth-century genre termed the queer fantastic...

... Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Jessica Hurley’s essay “Impossible Futures: Fictions of Risk in the Longue Durée ” ( American Literature , 89:4, 761–89) received the 2017 Don D. Walker Prize, awarded annually by the Don D. Walker Prize Committee and the Western...

... © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Announcement 2014 Don D. Walker Prize Jayson Gonzales Sae-Saue’s essay “Aztlán’s Asians: Forging and Forgetting Cross-Racial Relations in the Chicana/o Literary Imagination” (American Lit- erature 85:3, 563–89), received the 2014 Don D. Walker...

... Section of the Modern Language Association in recognition of a significant contribution to the study of American literature. 2005 Don D. Walker Award Janet Dean’s essay “Nameless Outrages: Narrative Authority, Rape Rheto- ric, and the Dakota Conflict of 1862” (March 2005; 91–122) won...

... Robert S. Levine, University of Maryland (Chair); Anna Brickhouse, University of Vir- ginia; and Steven J. Mailloux, University of California, Irvine. 2007 Don D. Walker Award Gretchen Murphy’s essay “How the Irish Became Japanese: Winnifred Eaton’s Racial Reconstructions in a Transnational...

... © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Announcements 2013 Don D. Walker Prize Kay Yandell’s essay “The Moccasin Telegraph: Sign-Talk Autobiography and Pretty-Shield, Medicine Woman of the Crows” (American Literature 84:3, 533–61), received the 2013 Don D. Walker Prize, awarded...

... © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Announcements 2009 Don D. Walker Prize Hsuan L. Hsu’s essay “Vagrancy and Comparative Racialization in Huckleberry Finn and ‘Three Vagabonds of Trinidad’” (December 2009, 687–717) received the 2009 Don D. Walker Prize, awarded annually by the...

... 2006 Announcements Janet Dean, Bryant University, was awarded the 2005 Don D. Walker Prize for the best scholarly article published in western American literary studies for ‘‘Nameless Outrages: Narrative Authority, Rape Rhetoric, and the Dakota Conflict of 1862’’ (American Literature...

... © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Announcements 2008 Don D. Walker Prize Mark Rifkin’s essay “Documenting Tradition: Territoriality and Textuality in Black Hawk’s Narrative” (December 2008, 677–705) received the 2008 Don D. Walker Prize, awarded annually by the Don D. Walker...

... University. 2011 Don D. Walker Prize Chadwick Allen’s essay “Serpentine Figures, Sinuous Relations: Thematic Geometry in Allison Hedge Coke’s Blood Run” (December 2010, 807–37) received the 2011 Don D. Walker Prize, awarded annually by the Don D. Walker Prize Committee...

... Epistolarity in Either Is Love’’ (June, 367–93). 218 American Literature Don D. Walker Prize TheDonD.WalkerPrizeforthebestessayonWesternAmericanLiterature published in 2002 was awarded in October to Susan Scheckel for ‘‘Home on the Train: Race and Mobility in The Life and Adventures of Nat Love...