...Dan Moos Duke University Press 2007 Exploding the Empire: Myths of Empire on the Postmodern Frontier . By Sara L. Spurgeon. Texas A & M Univ. Press. 2005. 189 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $17.95. Spaces of the Mind: Narrative and Community in the American West . By Elaine...

...Sean X. Goudie The Empire Abroad and the Empire at Home: African American Literature and the Era of Overseas Expansion . By Gruesser John Cullen . Athens : Univ. of Georgia Press . 2012 . viii, 159 pp. Cloth , $59.95 ; paper, $22.95 ; e-book, $22.95 . Melville and the Idea...

... heart of the empire’’ (62). As a result, Mrs. Seacole adopts a colonial perspective that precludes any sympathy for Jamaica. Claude McKay’s two autobiographies divide his consciousness into African American and Jamaican portions. A Long Way from Home fashions McKay’s persona as a citizen...

.... Arthur L. Little Jr., University of California, Los Angeles Empire Burlesque: The Fate of Critical Culture in Global America. By Daniel T. O’Hara. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. xiv, 370 pp. Cloth, $69.95; paper, $22.95. The Trash Phenomenon: Contemporary Literature, Popular Culture...

...Ed White 2005 The Cultural Geography of Colonial American Literatures: Empire, Travel, Modernity . By Ralph Bauer. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2003. xiii, 295 pp. $65.00; Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World . By Philip Gould...

...Frederick Wegener Duke University Press 2000 Frederick ‘‘Rabid Imperialist Edith Wharton and Wegener the Obligations of Empire in Modern American Fiction 6218 American Literature 72...

...Marissa López Duke University Press 2007 Spain's Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire . By María DeGuzmán. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2005. xxxiii, 372 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00. The Twentieth-Century Spanish American...

...Kirsten Silva Gruesz Duke University Press 2006 Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture . By Robert D. Aguirre. Minneapolis: Univ. Minnesota Press. 2005. xxix, 198 pp. Cloth, $67.50; paper, $22.50. Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles...

...Laura Henigman Missionary Positions: Evangelicalism and Empire in American Fiction . By Tricomi Albert H. . Gainesville : Univ. Press of Florida . 2011 . xii, 263 pp. $74.95 . Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century US Literature...

...Amardeep Singh Americanizing Britain: The Rise of Modernism in the Age of the Entertainment Empire . By Abravanel Genevieve . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2012 . 206 pp. $65.00 . Transatlantic Avant-Gardes: Little Magazines and Localist Modernism . By White Eric B...

... view of American history. These writers oppose exceptionalism by linking the United States to a broader and deeper history defined by slavery, empire, and ruin, while at the same time offering a prophetic vision of a future beyond the “empire of slavery.” © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

...Frank Kelderman Red Ink: Native Americans Picking up the Pen in the Colonial Period . By Lopenzina Drew . Albany : State Univ. of New York Press . 2012 . xxix , 412 pp. Cloth , $95.00 ; paper , $29.95 . The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism . By Byrd...

... Melanie . Athens : Univ. of Georgia Press . 2008 . xiv , 263 pp. Cloth , $71.95 ; paper , $25.95 . Romances of the White Man’s Burden: Race, Empire, and the Plantation in American Literature, 1880-1936 . By Wells Jeremy . Nashville, TN : Vanderbilt Univ. Press . 2011 . x , 238 pp...

...Russ Castronovo Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species . By Neel Ahuja . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2016 . xix, 262 pp. Cloth, $89.95 ; paper, $24.95 ; e-book, $14.49 . The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages...

... and positively uncomfortable ways, the marginalized subjects of his archive thus allow Taylor to reconfigure our understanding of empire, colonialism, and the (pre-)national imagination. Empire of Neglect should be high up on the reading lists of those interested in postcolonial theory, histories of liberalism...

... of empire. Yet curiously neither Haraway nor Martin acknowledged the extent to which the arrival of HIV in the early 1980s constituted a radical desublimation of what Roberto Esposito identified as the immune system’s salvational image. This essay posits that the arrival of HIV did not simply constitute...

..., social, political—of that text from one’s own position. The writers examined in Barnard’s Empire of Ruin exhibit a keen awareness of the “politics of memory” (171) and the need for a departure from “the ideology of exceptionalism and its linear-progressive view of history” (184); the spirit...

...: The Networked Individual in Nineteenth-Century American Literature . By Yoshiaki Furui . Tuscaloosa : Univ. of Alabama Press . 2019 . x, 239 pp. Cloth, $54.95 ; e-book, $54.95 . Gears and God: Technocratic Fiction, Faith, and Empire in Mark Twain’s America . By Nathaniel Williams...

... figured the leg as a symbol of the regenerative and reembodying benefits that territorial imperialism offered to Jacksonian working classes. Melville's journalism on Barnum's exhibit evinces a deep anxiety about the enthusiasm of Barnum's working-class audience for the prosthesis of empire, scrutinizing...

...Victor Román Mendoza © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Economic Citizens: A Narrative of Asian American Visibility. By Christine So. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press. 2007. x, 178 pp. Cloth, $49.00; paper, $26.95. Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing...