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... and the Imagination of Pleasure. By Tessa Hadley. New York: Cam- bridge Univ. Press. 2002. viii, 205 pp. $55.00. Henry James and the Father Question. By Andrew Taylor. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2002. x, 234 pp...

...Jené Schoenfeld 2006 American Racist: The Life and Films of Thomas Dixon . By Anthony Slide. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky. 2004. x, 264 pp. $35.00. The Sins of the Father: A Romance of the South . By Thomas Dixon. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky. 2004. xxx, 316 pp...

...Thomas W. Devine © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s . By James Gilbert. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2005. x, 269 pp. $39.00. Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Postwar American Culture...

...Katherine Snyder Bureau of Missing Persons: Writing the Secret Lives of Fathers . By Porter Roger J. . Ithaca, NY : Cornell Univ. Press . 2011 . x , 202 pp. $35.00 . Composing Selves: Southern Women and Autobiography . By Prenshaw Peggy Whitman . Baton Rouge...

... intimacy with physically present Black and Indigenous peoples. Although the portrait is said to depict Georges’s father, who readers know is also the man’s white enslaver, the object remains hidden from view in a bag until the final moments of the sketch, which concludes with the father’s beheading...

... communications studies in which Chang’s work and new theories of information converge through the figure of Wilbur Schramm. Schramm, cofounder of the Iowa Writers Workshop and “father” of modern communications studies, worked with Chang via the USIA. In sum, Chang’s story sheds light on how the US state’s...

... to the skyscraper by reading formalist theories by the father of modern architecture, Louis Sullivan, alongside a work of African American modernist fiction, Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929). Reading Sullivan alongside Larsen explains how skyscrapers and blackness together have defined what gets seen as modern...

... this claim by reading liberal and conservative statements about Muslims in the contemporary United States alongside the writings of Roger Williams, whom many consider to be the father of American pluralism. I argue that the modern rhetoric of religious diversity mirrors the eschatological structure...

...Hao Jun Tam Abstract Through a reading of Vietnamese American author Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt (2003) and Parisian writer-in-exile Duong Thu Huong’s The Zenith (2012), this essay examines the ways in which the two diasporic Vietnamese novels revise modern Vietnam’s founding father Ho Chi...

... relationships between a middle-class black father and daughter in the present and a white slavemaster, his son, and their black daugh- ter/sister in the past. John Christopher Snowdon, a black surgeon in present-day...

..., slighted, or failed to recognize, Lystra claims, is the significance of Jean Clemens’s involuntary incarceration for sev- eral years in a sanitarium toward the end of her father’s life, thanks to the machinations of Isabel Lyon, Twain’s private secretary. Lyon first won her boss’s absolute trust...

..., sometimes create ambiguity in his valuation of both the peasant and privileged classes, despite his allegiance to the peasants. Many early readers of The Laughter of My Father (1944), his first story collection...

... of temporal devices include the opening chapter’s proleptic revelation that this allegedly “ideal husband and father” was having “sex with teenage boys” (Bechdel 2006 , 17). Chapter 2, in contrast, scrambles a chronological narrative at the level of the images. The chapter opens with an image of the local...

.... For example, early in the novel the unnamed narrator tells us how his father left him to drown. The incident itself played and played in my mind, and at night, in bed, I could not sleep for remembering. How Paps had slipped away from us, how he looked on as we flailed and struggled, how I needed...

... rational and harmonious existence imaginable on a country estate on the banks of the Schuykill river 15 What Tompkins’s and Looby’s readings ignore is the way in which this bucolic idyll is already produced as illusory. Clara’s narration of the novel is positioned between two tragedies: her father’s...

... (“Fifty-four Forty or Fight to the Mexican Ces- sion of 1848—form the central context for understanding the counter- nationalist tendencies that emerge in Redburn. In the novel, Wellingborough Redburn, adolescent child of a father who died in bankruptcy (like Melville’s father, Allan), ships aboard...

... of spheres was in this sense a mechanism for socializing men by giving them a place to develop their compassionate interiors—to cultivate feelings and dispositions that could not be safely indulged at work but were indispensable to men’s roles as citizens, fathers, and husbands. ‘‘From this point...

... father also conjectures broadly and uncon- vincingly as to her motivation. Adding to Miss Rosa’s aura of mystery is the ‘‘ancient association of the rose with secrecy a sub-rosa text.4 The novel thus opens by insistently posing a question while simulta- neously frustrating any desire for a clear...