... and Citizenship in the United States, 1860–1945 . By Olwell Victoria . Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press . 2011 . 288 pp. Cloth , $59.95 ; e-book , $59.95 . Liberty of the Imagination: Aesthetic Theory, Literary Form, and Politics in the Early United States . By Cahill Edward...

... as sites for early black cultural formation, sites that, through the triangle trade, were intimately connected to Africa and the Caribbean. Consequently ‘‘the pre-Emancipation period’’ gave birth to forms of cultural production...

.... Rebecca Wanzo, Duke University Neo-Slave Narratives: Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary Form. By Asraf Rushdy. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1999. 232 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $17.95...

... back to the poetry, wherein we can contemplate more keenly the resilience of imagination on the other side of loss. James Applewhite, Duke University Jack Kerouac’s Duluoz Legend: The Mythic Form...

...Lynn Z. Bloom By Barbara Rodríguez. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1999. viii, 228 pp. $45.00. 2001 Book Reviews 437 Autobiographical Inscriptions: Form, Personhood...

... Narratives. By Eleanor Ty. Toronto, Ont.: Univ. of Toronto Press. 2004. xv, 227 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $24.95. America's Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945. By Colleen Lye. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2005. x, 342 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $21.95. 2006 Book...

...Allen Hibbard Duke University Press 2007 The Lost Years of William S. Burroughs: Beats in South Texas . By Rob Johnson. College Station: Texas A & M Univ. Press. 2006. 224 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $19.95. Action Writing: Jack Kerouac's Wild Form . By Michael Hrebeniak...

... offers a model of “social and somatic incorporation” that undercuts the Lockean conceit of self-possession and individual determination (70), when and how do models of exuberant collectivity delimit, rather than enable, desirable forms of political change? Geoff Hamilton’s The Life and Undeath...

...Kita Douglas Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 This trio of books turns our attention toward Asian American studies as a field that remains deeply concerned with processes of form and legibility. Each of these studies examines race as a shifting process of discursive...

... can share the burdens and possibilities of these agricultural spaces, insofar as it takes shape in relationship to an oppressive colonial tradition while defining a black expressive form that resists its own utility within the postplantation aesthetic economy. Posmentier reads McKay’s American sonnet...

...Brian Russell Roberts Drawing a distinction between culturally oriented and formally oriented geographical approaches to American literary studies, this essay frames Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) as engaging with the geographical form and spatial materiality of the vast...

... . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2012 . 292 pp. $99.00 . On the Outskirts of Form: Practicing Cultural Poetics . By Davidson Michael . Middletown, CT : Wesleyan Univ. Press . 2011 . 344 pp. Cloth , $80.00 ; paper , $27.95 ; e-book , $21.99 . Purple Passages: Pound, Eliot...

...John Morán González © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Chicano Novels and the Politics of Form: Race, Class, and Reification . By Marcial González. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2009. viii, 270 pp. Paper, $29.95. Translating Empire: José Martí, Migrant Latino...

...Colbey Emmerson Reid © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Glamour in Six Dimensions: Modernism and the Radiance of Form . By Judith Brown. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2009. xiv, 199 pp. $39.95. Hollywood Ambitions: Celebrity in the Movie Age . By Marsha Orgeron...

...Lori Merish Greyser’s training in the history of rhetoric is apparent in her breadth of sources, from literary texts to letters, journals, government and legal documents, newspaper articles, and maps, as well as visual cultural forms. But especially given this impressive range—and the array...

... © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 American Literature  915 Erratum for Sonya Posmentier, “The Provision Ground in New York: Claude McKay and the Form of Memory,” American Literature 84 (June 2012): 273–300. On page 295, the following...

...Rebecca Walsh Lyric Shame: The “Lyric” Subject of Contemporary American Poetry . By White Gillian . Cambridge : Harvard Univ. Press . 2014 . 350 pp . $45.00 . American Hybrid Poetics: Gender, Mass Culture, and Form . By Robbins Amy Moorman . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers...

...Sandra Tomc Abstract This essay examines early nineteenth-century US literature that fought for increased compensation and copyright protection for authors. Instead of dismissing this literature as a form of complaint, as many scholars do, I take writers’ concerns seriously, but I also look...

... . Cambridge, MA : Harvard Univ. Press . 2016 . 352 pp. $40.00 . Poetic Machinations: Allegory, Surrealism, and Postmodern Poetic Form . By Golston Michael . New York : Columbia Univ. Press . 2015 . xvi, 247 pp. Cloth , $60.00 ; e-book, $59.99 . Pitch of Poetry . By Bernstein...

... David S. . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2015 . x, 163 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper, $25.00 ; e-book available. The Aesthetics of Middlebrow Fiction: Popular US Novels, Modernism, and Form, 1945–75 . By Perrin Tom . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . 2015 . 197 pp. Cloth...