...Douglas Dowland Ghostly Figures: Memory and Belatedness in Postwar American Poetry . By Ann Keniston . Iowa City : Univ. of Iowa Press . 2015 . xii, 240 pp. Paper, $49.95 ; e-book, $49.95 . Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism...

... of texts that take up this mode of invested indirection in their content and form alike, she argues for a spinster ecology that alters our notion not only of where the future lies but also of how (or if) it arrives. Ensor turns first to Silent Spring to argue that Rachel Carson’s intransitive understanding...

... workload through overall campus or system enrollments. Some of this workload money pays the direct costs of instruction, such as faculty and staff salaries, and some pays indirect costs, such as the amortized annual costs of building construction and of having constructed the buildings...

...- guage (écriture noire) affects the way their stories are constructed, narrated, and read. In plumbing the depths of Chesnutt’s indirection and dissembling, Duncan produces new readings of familiar tales (such as ‘‘The Goophered...

... of the early 1930s (4) to an increasingly coded and indirect treatment of class— filtered especially through dramatizations of gender difference and sociocul- tural distinction. Tseng 2003.4.24 08:08 460 American...

... work, revealing the erroneous Tseng 2003.11.19 09:33 884 American Literature assumption that most of that work, because it dealt in indirection, did not deal with queer topics at all. I found...

... indirections and ambiguities surrounding gender and desire in his fiction. Such is no longer the case, as these two books ably demonstrate. Haralson and Person build on the recent efforts of Sedgwick, John Carlos Rowe, Hugh Stevens, and Wendy Graham to address the glaring absence in traditional James...

... Hayden, Building Suburbia (2003) While cultural geographers, urban historians, and city planners have been tracking the indirect costs and trans- national entanglements of US suburbs, literary scholars have often settled for reading suburban narratives...

... to the well-known aesthetic of omission and indirection of the immediate postwar period but also to narratives in which “female bodies suffer more elaborately than male ones” (23). She devotes a chapter each to Willa Cather’s One of Ours (1922), F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925), Ernest...

... is propelled by staring hard at only one pedal” (39)—is well made, and he argues plausibly that the US emphasis during this era on poetry’s formal qualities was only another way of framing texts politically, albeit by an indirect route rather than through the “blatant” censorship more typical of Soviet...

... styles of wit and indirection into Briton Hammon’s narrative. Frank Shuffle- ton argues that Wheatley was no mere accommodationist, showing that her poetry is marked by the Revolutionary War, while Rosemary Fithian Guru...

... that they may be disappointed if they make assessments based on appearance, whether of people or of books. Writing on the ‘‘color line’’ in his fiction, Ches- nutt himself, light-skinned enough to pass, dissembled, used indirection...

... conscious- ness. Ultimately, Curtis reveals how the contingencies of the archive trans- formed a well-known man into a ghostly figure, and asks us to think about how the past is both understood and preserved. Folk Women and Indirection in Morrison, Ní Dhuibhne, Hurston, and Lavin. By Jacque- line...

... of crosscutting in the wedding and baptism sequences of Godfather I.And Beach’s argument about the increasingly indirect representation of class in film comedies might have been strengthened by, for instance, examination...

...) or story cycles such as Rishi Reddi s Karma (2007), trans ctional narratives attune readers to latent, indirect, remote, and noncausal links between characters and stories. Such UNCORRECTED PROOFS 776 American Literature narratives imbue distance and open-endedness with political import, guiding readers...

... eminence, within the pantheon of Virginia’s “multitudinous array” of “statesmen and heroes” (Douglass 2005, 175, 174). Considering the mode of the introduction, and the fact that the novella culminates with a representation of the revolt on the Creole (albeit a remarkably indirect one), we expect...

... as they correct for this commodification, through the gap between the particulars so named. Their approach is one of “patient indirection,” and their self-explorations are mediated by a consciousness of the languages by which they can know themselves and as such serve as medita- tions on subjectivity...

... refinement.3 In the process, residual understandings of pain’s vitalizing purpose simi- lar to those conveyed in the Beecher epigraph are not only reframed for a modern audience skeptical of pain’s value but also extended even to those whose exposure to pain remains indirect. The realists allow...

... state proper cannot enforce: compul- sory heterosexuality. Take, for example, the free, indirect discourse of a Celebrity Pinoy headline published on the ckle’’ love-life of soon-to- be-revolutionary Daisy Avila: ‘‘ano ba, can’t she make up her mind (111). To align the popular, horizontal...

... the Tele- graph refers to be Celia’s own, and that they either chose to print and therefore endorse such a sympathetic view, or not. Though Celia’s and Jacobs’s indirect reporting of sexual abuse is contingent upon their crimes, each verbal reenactment of the abuse signifies another violation...