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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...
View articletitled, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” And the Reading Revolution: Race, Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction, 1851-1911 Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing Fever Reading: Affect and Reading Badly in the Early American Public Sphere Bodies and Books: Reading and the <span class="search-highlight">Fantasy</span> of Communion in Nineteenth-Century America
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Our South: Geographical Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature
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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...
View articletitled, Style, Gender, and <span class="search-highlight">Fantasy</span> in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing Radical Spiritual Motherhood: Autobiography and Empowerment in Nineteenth-Century African American Women Antebellum American Women Writers and the Road: American Mobilities
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for article titled, Style, Gender, and <span class="search-highlight">Fantasy</span> in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing Radical Spiritual Motherhood: Autobiography and Empowerment in Nineteenth-Century African American Women Antebellum American Women Writers and the Road: American Mobilities
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Around Quitting Time: Work and Middle-Class Fantasy in American Fiction
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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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The Spaces of Violence; The Economics of Fantasy: Rape in Twentieth-Century Literature
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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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Strangely Interested: The Work of Historical Fantasy
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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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Tarzan's White Flights: Terrorism and Fantasy before and after the Airplane
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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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“Where No X-Man Has Gone Before!” Mutant Superheroes and the Cultural Politics of Popular Fantasy in Postwar America
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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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Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes Do the Gods Wear Capes? Spirituality, Fantasy, and Superheroes Race in American Science Fiction
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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...
View articletitled, Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes Do the Gods Wear Capes? Spirituality, <span class="search-highlight">Fantasy</span>, and Superheroes Race in American Science Fiction
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Making Americans in the New York Public Library: Fantasy and Realities
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American Literature (2025) 97 (1): 121–153.
Published: 01 March 2025
... Realism: A New Anthology of Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Short Fiction , edited by Johanningsmeier Charles A. and McCarthy Jessica E. , 202 – 5 . New York : Swallow Press . Gikandi Simon . 2013 . “ The Fantasy of the Library .” PMLA 128 , no. 1 : 9...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 426–428.
Published: 01 June 2019
...Sean Metzger A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure across the Pacific . By Hua Hsu . Cambridge, MA : Harvard Univ. Press . 2016 . 276 pp. Cloth, $29.95 . Transpacific Community: America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Cultural Network . By Richard Jean So . New...
View articletitled, A Floating Chinaman: <span class="search-highlight">Fantasy</span> and Failure across the Pacific Transpacific Community: America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Cultural Network Invisible Subjects: Asian America in Postwar Literature
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for article titled, A Floating Chinaman: <span class="search-highlight">Fantasy</span> and Failure across the Pacific Transpacific Community: America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Cultural Network Invisible Subjects: Asian America in Postwar Literature
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Antebellum at Sea: Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America Epic in American Culture: Settlement to Reconstruction
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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...
View articletitled, Antebellum at Sea: Maritime <span class="search-highlight">Fantasies</span> in Nineteenth-Century America Epic in American Culture: Settlement to Reconstruction
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The Disarticulate: Language, Disability, and the Narratives of Modernity Disability Rhetoric Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race
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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...
View articletitled, The Disarticulate: Language, Disability, and the Narratives of Modernity Disability Rhetoric <span class="search-highlight">Fantasies</span> of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race
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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...
View articletitled, Real Phonies: Cultures of Authenticity in Post–World War II America / <span class="search-highlight">Fantasies</span> of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post–World War II American Fiction / Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America
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“Why Should You Be So Furious?”: Fantasies of Violence in Seventeenth-Century Writings
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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. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 John...
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Bad Girls and Sick Boys: Fantasies in Contemporary Art and Culture
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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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The Oriental Obscene: Violence and Racial Fantasies in the Vietnam Era Welcome to the Suck: Narrating the American Soldier's Experience in Iraq
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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 (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...
View articletitled, Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination Black for a Day: White <span class="search-highlight">Fantasies</span> of Race and Empathy
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Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature The Poetics of Insecurity Consuming Catastrophe: Mass Culture in America’s Decade of Disaster
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 159–161.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Lindsay Thomas Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature . By John Hay . Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press . 2017 . ix, 238 pp. Cloth, $105.00 ; e-book available. The Poetics of Insecurity . By Johannes Voelz . Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press...
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“Times When Greater Disciplines Are Born”: The Zora Neale Hurston Revival and the Neoliberal Transformation of the Caribbean
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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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