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.... xv, 127 pp. $24.95. William Dowlinghas been a staunch public defender of the future of the monograph against the ravages of commercial publishing. And at first glance Literary Federalism would seem...

...Kenneth M. Roemer © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Future West: Utopia and Apocalypse in Frontier Science Fiction . By William H. Katerberg. Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas. 2008. ix, 281 pp. $45.00. Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women . By Jeffrey...

...Michael Borshuk © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Cross-Rhythms: Jazz Aesthetics in African-American Literature . By Keren Omry. London: Continuum. 2009. 189 pp. $120.00. Writing the Future of Black America: Literature of the Hip-Hop Generation . By Daniel Grassian...

... and the Future of American Cultural Studies . By Smith Jon . Athens : Univ. of Georgia Press . 2013 . xv, 176 pp. Cloth , $69.95 ; paper, $24.95 ; e-book, $24.95 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 On the surface these authors employ vastly different methodologies: John Lowe’s...

...Stacey Peebles Duke University Press 2007 Strange Future: Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots . By Min Hyoung Song. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2005. xii, 285 pp. Paper, $22.95. The Edge of Modernism: American Poetry and the Traumatic Past . By Walter Kalaidjian...

...Sherryl Vint References Atanasoski Neda , and Vora Kalindi . 2019 . Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . Klein Ezra . 2021 . “ The Author Behind ’Arrival’ Doesn’t Fear AI: ’Look at How We Treat...

...Tara T. Green Sanctuary: African Americans and Empire . By Waligora-Davis Nicole A. . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2011 . xx , 218 pp. $65.00 . The Problem of the Future World: W. E. B. DuBois and the Race Concept at Midcentury . By Porter Eric . Durham, NC...

... depictions of risk to realistic ones, this essay examines fictions of nuclear waste commissioned by the Department of Energy to show that a risk-based realism is used to maintain the status quo of settler colonialism. It then turns to a countermodeling of the futures of nuclear waste by Leslie Marmon Silko...

...Benjamin Bateman Dead Letters Sent: Queer Literary Transmission . By Kevin Ohi . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2015 . 326 pp. Cloth, $96.50 ; paper, $27.50 ; e-book available. Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility . By Alexis Lothian...

...Michelle N. Huang Abstract Illuminating how biomedical capital invests in white and Asian American populations while divesting from Black surplus populations, this article proposes recent Asian American dystopian fiction provides a case study for analyzing futurities where healthcare...

...Sarah Ensor In this essay, Ensor suggests that the figure of the spinster can help resolve the problems of futurity that confront queer ecocriticism insofar as the spinster practices an avuncular form of stewardship, tending the future without contributing directly to it. By looking at a series...

... to the representation in order to reframe possibilities of women’s healthy sexual subjectivity. Injurious pasts and irreconcilable desires do not preclude joyous futures. Painful pasts enable the eponymous lost girls’ agency, creating the conditions that help them find homosocial and queer belonging with one another...

... the implications of this ambiguous temporality, suggesting that COVID-19 has made visible a new heterotemporality, wherein real time, history, and the future intermesh. The paper concludes by focusing on Hong Kong, a former British colony and Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China since...

...—that began to gain momentum in the 1970s. Dubey argues that the suspicion of history found in speculative fictions of slavery bespeaks a strong sense of uncertainty and pessimism about future prospects for racial politics in post–Civil Rights decades. © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Madhu...

... figure for future self-reflection and -definition at a time particularly shaped by cultural renewal and social reform. The network, as combining both concrete, material reality and epistemological, theoretical discourses, thus represents a central image in the project of (re)defining personal...

... view of American history. These writers oppose exceptionalism by linking the United States to a broader and deeper history defined by slavery, empire, and ruin, while at the same time offering a prophetic vision of a future beyond the “empire of slavery.” © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

... utopian politics of social redemption urged Left-aesthetics to respond to newly uncertain political futures, Rukeyser’s documentary-epic renewed a social imaginary for political redemption in ways resonant with Walter Benjamin’s theories of sociopolitical messianism. In Rukeyser’s poem, exploited human...

... in the development of the subgenre? How do its ethical pressures generate formal patterns and, in turn, how do its formal patterns generate ethical pressures? And finally, since both the textual and political forms are rapidly evolving, what can this rising subgenre teach us about the near futures of literature...

... the reader into a fluid realm of temporal ambiguity where past, present, and future converge. Reaching far beyond its reformist connotations, “temperance” ultimately proves to be a seminal metaphor for the imaginative state of temporal equilibrium that Hawthorne would achieve as a writer of historical...

... the article terms Gumbs’s and Jemisin’s Black feminist geohaptics crafts new political forms of sensory dwelling and planetary futures of environmental liberation for Black life. Sense, these works show, makes legible and transforms the Anthropocene’s geographies of power, unearthing how the categories...