..., external enemy; on the other hand, the U.S. movement into the Caribbean brought about the exportation of the color line and disen- franchisement. The United States projected its fear of miscegenation and hybridity within—that is, the fear of its own blackness—onto for- eign lands constructed...

...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...

...Megan Obourn Through a reading of Arturo Islas's posthumously published La Mollie and the King of Tears , this essay offers a critique of liberal, multicultural uses of postcolonial hybridity in the context of U.S. literature and literary criticism. The essay reviews current uses of hybridity...

... 2008 Collections Complicating Constructions: Race, Ethnicity, and Hybridity in American Texts . Ed. David S. Goldstein and Audrey B. Thacker. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press. 2007. xxviii, 320 pp. $50.00. Brief Mention Editions Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate...

... no place either in the atomizing political geography of Indian policy or the hybridized critical imaginary of the “middle ground.” © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Mark Documenting Tradition: Rifkin Territoriality and Textuality in Black Hawk’s Narrative...

... to disorienting immersion as McCarthy divests herself of reportorial omniscience and pursues a painful form of self-knowledge in its stead. Situating these essays at the intersection of literary experiments in hybrid form and activist critiques of US militarism, Nudelman argues that McCarthy’s writing from...

... Kahf’s bildungsroman, The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf , challenges the contemporary notion of postsecular literature, which takes a weakened, hybridized, liberal spirituality as its starting point. Although the bildungsroman conventionally plots an individual’s modernization in line with the nation’s...

... this autobiography, coupled with Pretty Shield’s explanations of historical use of the sign language among precontact Crow people, suggests new views of various critical problems within the hybrid genre of American Indian autobiography, of which this text is one example. Pretty Shield’s husband, Goes Ahead, used...

... as a major literary figure who made immense contributions to reflections on hybrid North American identity. In the appreciation of Kerouac by Quebec novelist and critic Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, the author shows that early critical dismissals of Kerouac in the United States were closely connected...

... and its object, the agent blurred with the process of her continual self-invention as a hybrid of multiple cultures. Meditating on relations between subject and object, viewer and vision, consumer and commodity, Yezierska makes plain the role of citizen as consumer. Her work crystallizes the dominance...

... the significance of Allen’s emphasis on Native-centered readings of the literature that challenge the assumptions and methods of western criticism, Pulitano maintains that Allen’s ‘‘overtly separatist position ultimately results in an untenable explication of the high levels of hybridization substantiating...

... brute within Vandover not only stages but also exists as the precondition for the ultimate emergence of his sexually perverse body. The ‘‘half word, half cry’’ of his bark— the Wolf—wolf that constitutes both a noise and a noun describ- ing his mental state—registers the in-between, hybrid status...

... literature? Self-Determined Stories has a broader, sturdier critical foundation. Suhr-Sytsma positions her study within specific literary and political contexts and uncovers the rich details and nuanced representations of self-determination and sovereignty, activism, multiculturalism, hybridity...

... Passage to China and Emerson’s citation of Confucius, for example, have less to do with a utopian future of Chinese-American hybridity than with building US nationalism. Xun’s studied translation of Longfellow’s “A Psalm of Life” (1838) into the Chinese characters recorded as “Long Fellow’s Poem” (1865...

...), is one such connective concept; Lowe argues that the tropical sublime could provide a lens for reading adjacent cultures, such as those of the US South and the Caribbean. Hybridity serves as another: Lowe concludes that immigrants from Cuba “have constantly enriched and sustained the Latino/a enclaves...

... African American cultural texts to voice their knowledge of the geographies of the ‘‘Father the ambi- guities of the defamiliarized ‘‘Mother the rhapsodies of the musi- cally hybridized ‘‘Other and the real...

... . 2003 . Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . Kingsbury Noel . 2009 . Hybrid: The History and Practice of Plant Breeding . Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press . Lemire Elise . 2002 . “Miscegenation”: Making Race in America...

...). In terms of form and language—the central issues here, as outlined in both introductions—what gets celebrated is the “hybrid” (as against realism). This term is prominent throughout for both authors: “other more hybrid forms have helped to reveal the profound difficulties of representing...

...). In terms of form and language—the central issues here, as outlined in both introductions—what gets celebrated is the “hybrid” (as against realism). This term is prominent throughout for both authors: “other more hybrid forms have helped to reveal the profound difficulties of representing...

...). In terms of form and language—the central issues here, as outlined in both introductions—what gets celebrated is the “hybrid” (as against realism). This term is prominent throughout for both authors: “other more hybrid forms have helped to reveal the profound difficulties of representing...