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... with both visual and literary analysis, applied to texts high, low, and everywhere in between, helps to unify her book as it realizes forsaken promises of cultural studies. Sensational Internationalism opens on a recent radical scene that now seems almost as distant as the Paris Commune...

... renders it permeable. Her poems of the late 1960s conjure an internationalist atmosphere in which to immerse their readers. Rukeyser’s feminist internationalism requires us to more radically reconceive second-wave feminism as an intellectual and cultural terrain always in contact with a range of movements...

...Etsuko Taketani First in the chronological table of world affairs relevant to any argument concerning the black internationalism of the 1930s is the Italo-Ethiopian War. George Samuel Schuyler, then the most prominent black journalist in the United States, stood in for international-minded black...

... the transatlantic cable and that served, over the course of the decade, as a metonym for advanced telecommunications technology. In Congress, Brooks's assault was depicted by Senator Andrew Butler as a rejoinder to Sumner's speech as an improper—because prepublished and internationally distributed—abolitionist...

... intranationally and internationally. Thus, in an analysis of the violent marrow of US racism, Chesnutt offers a surprising diagnosis: the cakewalk of capital. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 John Mac The Cakewalk of Capital in Charles Chesnutt’s Kilgore The Marrow of Tradition...

..., who embraced personal freedom after leaving the Communist Party USA and immigrating to France in 1946. In a 1948 speech, “Internationalism and the Human Spirit,” he condemned US and Soviet imperialism and argued men “must again experience the need to express, to will, to accomplish themselves...

... for confronting our political moment. Do our internationalisms offer meaningful alternatives to reactionary nationalism? What about our older critical understandings of national cultures of consensus formation, intergenerational anxiety, and racial belonging? Should we transcend Trumpism through reasserting...

...—with the “Census Bureau’s obsession with blood fraction racial identities” (76) at the turn of the century. This kaleidoscope of skin color was enhanced by Harlem’s internationalization, both registered and hidden by census data, which did not separate out Afro-diaspora immigrants from native-born blacks until...

... World War I (44), developments evident in Cather’s One of Ours (1922). This history is fascinating, but it downplays what many historians regard as distinctive about US agriculture after World War II. It was not merely the presence of nationally (and internationally) manufactured inputs on US farms...

... of how American literary studies circulates internationally in the twenty-first century. Among the many strengths of Edwards’s work is his capacity to read the Arabic world from an experiential viewpoint. Like Quinn in Czechoslovakia, Edwards understands the languages, both linguistic and cultural...

...” (Parris, 6). Overall, amid the rich and expanding study of black internationalism—including Pan-Africanism, black Atlantic thought, and global South exchanges—Robolin’s and Parris’s works, through their interest in different forms of segregation amid a global system, offer a useful array of methodologies...

... hegemonic relationship connecting the United States and the world is traced from literature that remembered the Civil War in the late nineteenth century, through the rising internationalism of World War I’s aftermath, to the Cold War liberalism that followed World War II. Vincent’s genealogy sheds light...

... the internationalism of African American writing in the 1920s and 1930s goes well beyond familiar fellow travelers Claude McKay and Langston Hughes to recognize the forgotten New Negro Orientalism Schleitwiler elaborates in literature by Nella Larsen, Wallace Thurman, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Eulalie Spence and in music...

... meaningful communication in the increasingly “internationally-minded public sphere” (11) of postwar America. Emre ends her study with a focus on John A. Williams’s 1967 novel The Man Who Cried I Am as a dynamic paraliterary text that crystallized a series of revolutionary events connected...

... are Sollors’s most obvious examples here—looked outside the United States for political solace, the introduction does little to orient this internationalism across the collected essays or amid the tumult loosed by Warren’s polemic. Still, new readers of Sollors’s foundational work will be impressed...

... and political articulations grouped under So’s rubric “natural democracy.” Chapter 3 investigates Paul Robeson’s Chinese recordings in collaboration with Liu Liangmo that highlight the transpacific as a practice bringing together Robeson’s thoughts on internationalism, the human stem, and pentatonic scales. So...

... question of how the discourse of internationalization has played out within the “field imaginary” (14) of Ameri- can studies. The crucial question that emerges from this work, though, is whether knowledge itself can or should be equated with what Wiegman calls the “knowledge project” (79...

... of color internationally was central to their work. Higashida seeks to uncouple “postnationalist analysis from transnationalist approaches” as a way of understanding how black women on the left created art in the mid- to late twentieth century (5). The text’s most provocative inter- vention is its...

... and committed to a plural- ist vision, against the melting-pot ideal. Many writers and educators believed in unity through diversity, and this faith inspired not only domestic projects but also postwar efforts toward internationalization. Schmidt’s book includes an introduction, a brief conclusion...

... . By Bromell Nick . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2013 . ix , 190 pp. Cloth, $29.95 ; e-book available. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 622  American Literature radically challenged multiple academic disciplines and art practices both internationally and nationally, Language poetry...