...: Geography and Flow in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature . By Madera Judith . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2015 . ix, 300 pp. Cloth , $94.95 ; paper, $25.95 ; e-book available. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Siemerling’s book has the gravitas of a textbook...

...Nicole M. Merola The Meaning of Rivers: Flow and Reflection in American Literature . By McMillin T. S. . Iowa City : Univ. of Iowa Press . 2011 . xviii, 220 pp. Paper , $34.95 . Environmental Evasion: The Literary, Critical, and Cultural Politics of “Nature’s Nation...

.... In contrast to accounts that emphasize the speed of propaganda, political operatives in America loyal to the Crown deliberately sought to slow the flow of information, including the stream of satire, rumor, and diatribe that inevitably accompanied it. Broadsides, pamphlets, and poems written in reaction...

... to be human flowed from having the right kind of nervous sensitivity, being called insensible—sensorially deficient— was a serious charge: it meant having one’s experiences discarded as fantasy or blankness. Treating insensible somnambulists as epistemically valuable rebuts the charge of blankness that clung...

..., are marked by the installment of a series of rule-based interactions that modulate affect within the sociotechnical mechanics of state-sanctioned racism to enable the proper flow of both play and mobility. However, through failure, the game also reveals gamification to be an incomplete diagram of control...

... Brooklyn Ferry” extends the reach of Whitman's materialist poetics by supplementing the perceptual mechanics of Lucretian physics (in which the sentient body is composed of and sustained by the flow of objects toward it) in order to produce a material subject capable, however ironically, of transcending...

... of the cultural amnesia that flows from America’s intoxicating confidence in the transformative power of industrial technology. To counter the temporal imbalance of an industrializing nation drunk with the spirit of innovation, Hawthorne’s “temperance” tales ultimately offer a distillation of time that transports...

...—the physical character—of the Mississippi River also served as a rich source of metaphor for Faulkner. Notori- ously unpredictable and idiosyncratic in its flows, the Mississippi be- comes an apt metaphor in the novel for a certain conception of Woman, for the dangerous unpredictability of capitalism...

..., “a region of disturbed flow” that follows a ship (in this case, the slave ship); this “disturbed flow,” however, takes multiple paths (3). When it comes to monuments depicting slavery, it is absurd to have a static representation of something that is ongoing, of “a past that is with us still” (62). What...

... States, exacerbating the depopulation of rural Mexico. 3 Yet, as the flow of goods across the US-Mexico border increased, the ability of individuals to cross was further restricted by an increasingly policed and militarized border zone. 4 NAFTA began as an economic idea designed to promote free...

... on multiple narrative levels, inverting the generational time of the family while also producing a disruption in the flow of narrative time. The scene occupies a two-page side-by-side spread and shows headshots of father and daughter sitting in a car, with Bruce driving and Alison in the passenger seat (220...

... literary production across the twentieth century. Citing Jean Toomer’s Cane (1923), Griffin associated the movement of African Americans across space with the liquid (blood and water) metaphor of flow. Almost twenty years later, a new set of literary, cultural, and historical studies is bringing...

... Out of this individualist act of expression, Hoover continues, comes ‘‘the unending stream of goodness which flows from his successes’’ EPA 65). This ‘‘goodness he contends, is the pure and undiluted panacea for whatever...

... experience of space: touchless space. A lavishly complete traveling cybermodule, the limousine contains “a club chair at the rear of the cabin” where Packer can sit “looking into the array of visual display units” and track the “medleys of data on every screen, all the flowing symbols and alpine...

...” (Hayles 1990 , 56) but produced by the materiality of transmission itself. In this clerk’s ultimate flight into petty domesticity—a “little home” and a head “full of her thoughts” (James 2001 , 208)—grim realism has devoured any fantasies of flow that could still be attributed to the telegraph...

..., a storyline, or world has the potential to disrupt, comment on, or altogether alter the flow and direction of what has come before: in this sense, comics function, to borrow from Sara Ahmed, as queer orientation devices , productively directing readers toward deviant bodies that refuse to be fixed in one...

... of the damned. . . . Was she, indeed, a descendant of naked black savages of the hor- rible African jungles? Could it be that the blood of generations of these unfortunate ones flowed through her veins? ( HD, 57, my emphases) Predictably, Jewel too awakens to “a living nightmare” when...

... central to the formation of a peripheralized ‘‘American Pacific’’ linked to a Euro-American core.7 For as California became ‘‘central- ized’’ in the transnational flow of capital and the play of geopolitics, Hawai‘i...

... “Just Like Home”  67 terms. For Wright’s depictions of the psychic processes and costs of racialization are, like those of his contemporary Frantz Fanon, metic- ulously historicized. A blind, almost supernaturally old woman “in flowing white clothes” (Wright 2003, 61), Mrs. Dalton is less...

... dimension. Stephen Tatum ( 2007 : 4) proposes that we use “overlaying or doubling” to understand how global processes (international flows of capital and commodities, new information technologies, migration of labor and people) restructure places, “redrawing and determining the contour lines of the local...