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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 199–202.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Ramzi Fawaz Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes . By Nama Adilifu . Austin : Univ. of Texas Press . 2011 . i , 180 pp. Cloth , $55.00 ; paper , $24.95 . Do the Gods Wear Capes? Spirituality, Fantasy, and Superheroes . By Saunders Ben . New York...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 397–400.
Published: 01 June 2014
... . Bodies and Books: Reading and the Fantasy of Communion in Nineteenth-Century America . By Silverman Gillian . Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press . 2012 . xiii , 226 pp. $55.00 . © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Book Reviews
The Erotics of Sovereignty: Queer Native...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 305–329.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Aaron Bady By placing the Tarzan novels and films in the historical context of the development of aviation and aerial bombardment, Bady traces how changing fantasies of flight mediate the Tarzan franchise's changing relationship to white supremacist violence. Edgar Rice Burroughs's original novels...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 355–388.
Published: 01 June 2011
... regeneration of the comic book was made possible by the revamping of a key American fantasy figure, the superhero, from a transparent champion of the national interest to a genetic and species outcast mapping the limits of the human. This refashioning was most visible in the invention of the “mutant superhero...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 680–682.
Published: 01 September 2002
... of his book, Patell turns to the fiction of Morrison and Pyn-
chon to illustrate the insufficiency of either individualism or community, as
presently conceived, to secure either negative or positive liberties. The tone
of the rhetoric shifts as Patell plunges into the paranoia, fantasy, horror, magic...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 859–861.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Suzanne W. Jones Our South: Geographical Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature . By Greeson Jennifer Rae . Cambridge : Harvard Univ. Press . 2010 . x, 356 pp. $39.95 . One Homogeneous People: Narratives of White Southern Identity, 1890–1920 . By Watts Trent...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 872–874.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Shirley Samuels Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing . By Beam Dorri . New York : Cambridge Univ. Press . 2010 . 260 , viii pp. $85.00 . Radical Spiritual Motherhood: Autobiography and Empowerment in Nineteenth-Century African American Women...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 416–418.
Published: 01 June 2009
...Mark Fulk © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 The Spaces of Violence . By James R. Giles. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2006. xv, 209 pp. $42.50. The Economics of Fantasy: Rape in Twentieth-Century Literature . By Sharon Stockton. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2006...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 137–157.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Michael A. Elliott The proliferation of historical commemoration in the United States has led to the willful, overt manipulation of historical facts through imaginative fantasy. This essay argues that a strong literary tradition can help us understand this mode of historical fantasy. The essay...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 426–428.
Published: 01 June 2019
... Univ. Press . 2016 . xii, 233 pp. Cloth, $74.00 . Transpacific Community: America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Cultural Network . By Richard Jean So . New York : Columbia Univ. Press . 2016 . xxxix, 260 pp. Cloth, $60.00 ; e-book, $59.99 . A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 662–663.
Published: 01 September 2000
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Bad Girls and Sick Boys: Fantasies in Contemporary Art and Culture. By Linda S.
Kauffman. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 1998. xii, 328 pp...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 202–204.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Kathleen McClancy The Oriental Obscene: Violence and Racial Fantasies in the Vietnam Era . By Chong Sylvia Shin Huey . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2012 . xii , 364 pp. Cloth , $94.95 ; paper , $26.95 . Welcome to the Suck: Narrating the American Soldier's Experience...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 831–833.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Hester Blum Antebellum at Sea: Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America . By Berger Jason . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2012 . x , 338 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper , $25.00 . Epic in American Culture: Settlement to Reconstruction . By Phillips...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 213–216.
Published: 01 March 2019
... ; paper, $27.95 ; e-book, $27.95 . Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy . By Alisha Gaines . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . 2017 . ix, 213 pp. Cloth, $80.00 ; paper, $27.95 ; e-book, $19.99 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 673–675.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Daniel Pecchenino Real Phonies: Cultures of Authenticity in Post–World War II America . By Cheever Abigail . Athens : Univ. of Georgia Press . 2010 . viii , 312 pp. Cloth , $59.95 ; paper , $24.95 . Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post–World...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 198–200.
Published: 01 March 2016
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2014. xi, 349 pp. Cloth, $39.95; e-book available.
Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race. By Ellen Samuels. New York:
New York Univ. Press. 2014. x, 263 pp. Cloth, $79.00; paper, $26.00.
Much of the intellectual energy of current scholarship in disability studies
arises from...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 159–161.
Published: 01 March 2020
... arguably contributed the most to our understanding of the aesthetics of security, insecurity, and disaster—including science fiction, postapocalyptic fiction, and political thrillers—is particularly noticeable. Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature . By John Hay...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 213–240.
Published: 01 June 2016
..., arguing that the two images are linked intertextually. The two images anchor a particular history of torture that suggests how representations of violence are key elements of colonial fantasies that made (and make) real atrocities possible. 9 Jamestown, established 1607; Somers Isles (Bermuda) in 1615...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 117–145.
Published: 01 March 2014
... and cultural nationalist gender and sexual binds. By juxtaposing the spatiotemporalities and affects of these fantasies alongside those of Ronald Reagan’s speeches and CIA literature produced in the wake of the Grenada invasion, the essay shows how these Hurstonian fantasies of the Caribbean worked to both...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 121–149.
Published: 01 March 2010
... Courier , has not attracted much attention from modern critics, largely due to the uncomfortably violent racial scenarios it depicts. Yet, as Taketani's essay suggests, to address such seemingly objectionable scenarios is to confront the origins of black internationalism in the race war fantasy...
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