...: Narratives of Flight in J. Edgar Hoover’s America. By William Beverly. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2003. xvii, 236 pp. $40.00. Censorship of the American Theatre in the Twentieth Century. By John Houchin. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2003. ix, 332 pp. $60.00. Studies of governmental...

...Glenda R. Carpio Duke University Press 2005 Glenda R. Conjuring the Mysteries of Slavery: Carpio Voodoo, Fetishism, and Stereotype in Ishmael Reed’s Flight to Canada In a vibrant proliferation since the mid-1960s, fic- tional texts have...

...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...

... of, alternatives to, and lines of flight away from its more pessimistic ideological formations. [email protected] Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Octavia E. Butler Margaret Atwood Ernest Callenbach Kim Stanley Robinson ecological humanities It is still an open...

... Robert Smithson As Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow ends, we are informed that the flight path of the A4/V-2 rocket at the center of the novel is “not, as we might imagine, bounded below by the line of the Earth it ‘rises from’ and the Earth it ‘strikes’ No But Then You Never Really Thought...

... in the narrative by way of the fugitive movements of “so small a thing as a boy,” which is to say in the spectacular flight of the feral and the fantastic gestures of the dependent nonage and minor object (Twain 2007a , 11, emphasis mine). I approach Tom Sawyer as an exemplary illustration of the way...

.... Review: Stanlake, Native American Drama: A Critical Perspective, 463–66. Review: Vizenor, Native Liberty: Natural Reason and Cultural Surviv- ance, 463–66. Bady, Aaron. “Tarzan’s White Flights: Terrorism and Fantasy before and after the Airplane,” 305–29. Barrett, Faith. Review...

... operations, drone aircraft “perform politics” through the appeal to technoscientific neutrality (127). For Chandler, the shift to the terminology of unmanned drone flight begins around 1946, when it comes to index a “conceptual shift” positing “the negation of man” from the scene of strategic military...

... of Flight. By Christopher Schaberg. London: Continuum. 2012. x, 177 pp. Cloth, $100.00; paper, $24.95. Arguing that both narratives about airports and airports themselves can be read as texts, Schaberg claims that a literary exegesis of these texts illumi- nates the formation and fault lines...

... in 2011 was awarded to Scott Selisker, for “‘Simply by Reacting The Sociology of Race and Invisible Man’s Automata” (September 2011). Hon- orable mentions were awarded to Aaron Bady, for “Tarzan’s White Flights: Ter- rorism and Fantasy before and after the Airplane” ( June 2011); and Nathaniel...

... the genre. Rushdy, tracing separately the effects of the ideological shifts of the 1960s on the creative sensibilities of Reed, Williams, and Johnson, provides extended readings of Flight to Canada, Dessa Rose, Oxherding Tale, and Middle...

... With the introduction of bound labor in the New World, the fugitive simultaneously arrived as both the material reality of the runaway servant-slave and the spectral figure of imminent threat to colonial establishments, evincing both the physical and intellectual capacity for flight, rebellion, and destruction...

... of the 1960s on the creative sensibilities of Reed, Williams, and Johnson, provides extended readings of Flight to Canada, Dessa Rose, Oxherding Tale, and Middle Passage. Read against the turbulent cultural politics engendering them...

...: “The flesh, rather than displacing bare life or civil death, excavates the social (after)life of these categories: it represents racializing assemblages of subjection that can never annihilate the lines of flight, freedom, dreams, practices of liberation, and possibilities of other worlds” (2). Monique...

... annihilate the lines of flight, freedom, dreams, practices of liberation, and possibilities of other worlds” (2). Monique Allewaert also conceives of a new genre of the human, the “parahuman,” whose unbounded, interpenetrated body responds to slavery’s dehumanizing forces by combining with the plant, insect...

... Legal Personhood in Benito Cereno  37 one’s full liberation from subjection to another by casting a shadow over any attempt to assert civil agency, how can unfreedom pos- sibly terminate in acts of violence or flight? And if, as Benito Cereno implies, only historical and cultural...

... and a work of art aware that it is performing its value. Brown’s definition of autonomy is, by necessity, a bit foggy, but ultimately a work of art’s interaction with social externalities is key, and art’s inescapable thingness will always complicate that. Brown’s argument takes flight in chapter 3...

... the lines of flight, freedom, dreams, practices of liberation, and possibilities of other worlds” (2). Monique Allewaert also conceives of a new genre of the human, the “parahuman,” whose unbounded, interpenetrated body responds to slavery’s dehumanizing forces by combining with the plant, insect...

... equally confine and constitute the self. Legal status as property provokes a series of self-alienating defensive responses: passing (and feeling unrecognized), flight (and abandonment), hiding (and self-confinement), self-purchase (and self-commodification), carrying (and losing) proof (passes, “papers...

... Asia and continues on in the “success” stories of immigrants, many of whom now express undivided loyalty to the imperial power that forced their flight from their homelands. For Eva Cherniavsky, empire is a neoliberal formation whose single-minded commitment to efficiency and discipline results...