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..., $49.95; paper, $19.95. The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism. . By Kevin Floyd. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2009. 270 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00. Shane Vogel The New Queer Essentialism The Queer Child; or, Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century...

...John J. Su Su calls for a reexamination of essentialism in light of a resurging interest in identity and identity politics. Since the mid-1990s, poststructuralist dismissals of identity as “pernicious and metaphysically inaccurate” have increasingly been challenged by feminist philosophers...

...Sari Edelstein This essay draws attention to how the institutionalization of childhood studies in American literary criticism unwittingly privileges youth over all other ages and reifies the stages of life themselves as essential categories rather than as cultural constructs. Given that age emerged...

... increase in college enrollment over the past century, America's most influential educational institutions largely serve the same social classes as they did in the past, and largely for the same reasons. The essential difference is that while the benefits of higher education were once understood as form...

... and expression but instead deems silence to be essential in the construction of a black commonplace. Baraka posits three interrelated forms of black silence: the silence of oppression, the silence of resistance, and the silence of social optimism. In the perceived absence of expression, the poems from The Dead...

.... Engaging and reinvesting the meanings of the South’s plantation geographies, the theater revealed how one hundred years after emancipation, time remained essential to procuring the afterlives of slavery and colonialism and to shoring up the region’s necropolitical attachments. Examining these aesthetic...

... disturbance, including Washington Irving’s famous depiction of a disorderly audience, to demonstrate how patrons cultivated a comic mode of sociality, one that foregrounded and maintained the essential playfulness of social contest. Such comic play acknowledged a horizon of popular enjoyment that stood...

... attention to how an enslaved condition in which one lacked the right to choose to move or hold still is now being extended to a class of workers deemed essential. References Andone Dakin . 2020 . “ Protests Are Popping Up across the US over Stay-At-Home Restrictions .” CNN , April 17...

...Heather Houser Houser’s essay argues for the centrality of sickness and affect to twenty-first-century environmental consciousness and therefore to ecocriticism, through an analysis of Richard Powers’s novel, The Echo Maker . The essay focuses on wonder, an essential affect for promoting...

... discussion of race as a contestable philosophical concept, though, one is left to wonder what the MacGuffin of race might be. Nowhere in the book is there consideration that race may be a cultural fiction without essential properties. Rather, the assumption throughout seems to be that race marks out...

... senses—is an early signal of the dehistoricized, deracinated dimension of the philosophy of art and its limitations for theorizing minority art. 5 However, each definition of Asian American literature presupposes certain theories about art—what art is, what function art serves, if art has an essential...

...). Woolman uses a child to argue that the ‘‘false’’ belief in essential racial difference that ‘‘through the force of long cus- tom’’ has been used to justify slavery undermines the colonies’ abiding commitment to ‘‘liberty’’ (CKN, 58–59). Over a hundred years later, as the nation went to war to determine...

..., and which did not typically end up containing a majority of their population in any given city (Massey and Denton 1993 : 32–33). That said, those enclaves could still encompass spatialized discrimination and oppression, and I do not believe the urban planning novel to be something essential or proprietary...

... evincing their essential “dis-analogy,” to take up Mitchell’s term) and leaves room for the multiplicity of pain that need not prove its authenticity initially or eventually in damaged flesh. The fact that pain now need only “resembl[e] that associated with[] actual or potential tissue damage” means we...

..., especially by an often impracti- cable notion of ethnic identity as essential, and essentially masculine, inheritance. Véa and Santana’s narratives revise the predominance of warrior masculinity—the drive to claim authentic manhood through aggres- sion—in movement-era cultural production...

... of fair use essentially moot. What makes the Salinger case even more intriguing (or convoluted) is that Hamilton did not access these letters through illegal or unethi- American Literature, Volume 83, Number 3, September 2011 DOI 10.1215/00029831-1339881 © 2011 by Duke University Press 598...

.... While the precise definition of “species” has long been debated among biologists, the profound influence of Charles Darwin since the end of the nineteenth century has ensured that reproductive capability remains an essential element for defining species boundaries.4 Mem- bers...

... superfluous, thus making possible a final appeal to an essential, ‘‘real’’ affiliation. This position has made Stowe into a favorite target, in her own time and in ours. In an 1852 article that appeared in the Pennsylvania...

... from fighting . We return fighting ” (quoted on 113). Dodman pays special attention to military studies that strained to find essential racial differences in responses to combat stress and to the way pervasive racism in the United States finally confounds any clear distinctions between domestic...