... Kaenel, Université Nancy 2, France Understanding Jane Smiley. By Neil Nakadate. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press. 1999. xi, 281 pp. $29.95. In this clear, insightful introduction to the fiction...

... in Jane Rule’s Fiction.By Marilyn R. Schuster. New York: New York Univ. Press. 1999. xv, 269 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $20.00. Marilyn Schuster’s Passionate Communities: Reading Lesbian Resistance...

... and the Making of an Interracial Left . By Battat Erin Royston . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . 2014 . xv, 233 pp. Paper , $32.95 ; e-book, $25.99 . Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature . By Hardison Ayesha K. . Charlottesville...

..., and Gregg Mitman describe as “community” ecology. Later, postwar urbanists such as Jane Jacobs would draw on the authority of community ecology to reckon with the physical and social transformations then being carried out within New York City's urban renewal programs. Offering scientific evidence...

...Jane Anna Gordon The Oracle and the Curse: A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War . By Smith Caleb . 2013 . Cambridge : Harvard Univ. Press . xiii , 264 pp. Cloth , $35.00 ; e-book , $35.00 . Each Hour Redeem: Time and Justice in African American...

...Jane F. Thrailkill Abstract People over sixty-five have been singled out as a uniquely vulnerable risk group for the novel coronavirus. Yet the discourse of risk obscures (and exacerbates) socially created dangers of congregate care in the United States: poorly paid workers holding down multiple...

...Jane F. Thrailkill © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary Culture . By Lisa Woolfork. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2009. xi, 233 pp. $40.00. Worldly Acts and Sentient Things: The Persistence of Agency from Stein to DeLillo...

...Jane F. Thrailkill © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism . By Paul Gilmore. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2008. viii, 242 pp. $60.00. Passions for Nature: Nineteenth-Century America's Aesthetics...

... us to share his episte- mological height. This is not to deny that the novel sometimes depicts Tarzan’s flight in strikingly unrealistic ways. In the novel’s climax, for example, Tarzan rescues Jane from a forest fire in northern Wisconsin by “swinging with the speed of a squirrel” through...

... in Jane Rule’s Fiction.By Marilyn R. Schuster. New York: New York Univ. Press. 1999. xv, 269 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $20.00. Marilyn Schuster’s Passionate Communities: Reading Lesbian Resistance...

... Bible). The novel employs virtually all of its characters as narrators: John Christopher Snowdon, the family patriarch; Camille, John Christo- pher’s wife and the mother of their three daughters; Cynthia Jane...

... of the relationship between religion and artistic production can be traced to 1859, when Stowe and Augusta Jane Evans published Tseng 2003.3.10 08:14 50 American Literature novels that inverted the religiously informed formulas...

... Jonathan . 2018 . Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness . Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press . Ludoph Emily . 2018 . “ W. B. Yeats’s Live-in ‘Spirit Medium.’ ” JSTOR Daily , December 5 . https://daily.jstor.org/wb-yeats-live-in-spirit-medium/ . Lupton Mary Jane...

..., and Biddy Martin. This methodology of eclecticism positions Schuster’s book 6218 American Literature 72:4 / sheet 194 of238 somewhere between the academic and the popular, in a middle territory, as she might argue, like the location of Jane Rule’s fiction...

... ornamental to people across the color spectrum. “Quadroons” Rosa and Jane each own a “pair of coral ear-drops” (2010, 196), which signify their position in “the higher circle” (217) of enslaved people at the St. Clares’ New Orleans household. When Jane starts “dangling” and “playing with her ear-drops” (196...

... movement of the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth-century publication of Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961). If some of the urban thinkers in Rowan’s intellectual history are familiar—Jane Addams, W. E. B. Du Bois, Jacobs—details about the context...

... of literature’s key concepts. Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, “a mixed blood Ojibwe woman,” pro- duced texts that “enact and commemorate Ojibwe cultural practices,” illus- trating what Rohrbach argues is “a parallactic view of our contemporary struggles to reckon with multimodal digital culture as both product...

... of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley,” 31–59. Gordon, Jane Anna. Review: Banita, Plotting Justice: Narrative Ethics and Lit- erary Culture after 9/11, 633–36. Review: English, Each Hour Redeem: Time and Justice in African Amer- ican Literature, 633–36. Review: Smith, The Oracle...

... African American servant, whether it be Mammy Jane who reaches down to save Dodie after he has fallen through the window or Sandy who provides solace after the encounter outside the hospital. ‘‘There’s Mr. Delamere’s Sandy...

... enduring existential imperatives (2000: 11). The Africana creolized philosophies of (Black) existence explored by scholars such as Linda Martín Alcoff ( 2006 ; 2008 ), Jane Anna Gordon (2015), Mabogo Percy More ( 2021 ), Henry Paget ( 1997 ; 2000 ), Reiland Rababka ( 2011 ; 2015 ), and T. Denean...