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...Joel B. Peckham Duke University Press 2000 Joel B. Jean Toomer’s Cane: Self as Montage and Peckham the Drive toward Integration 6059 American Literature 72:2 / sheet 37 of223 In the past decade several important...

...T. Austin Graham Graham considers Jean Toomer's Cane from a musicological perspective and discusses the novel's musical poetics with an ear toward 1920s discussions of African American folk culture, preservationism, and the mediation of song. At the time of Cane 's publication, Toomer's poems...

...Susan Edmunds Duke University Press 2003 Susan The Race Question and the ‘‘Question of the Edmunds Home Revisiting the Lynching Plot in Jean Toomer’s Cane...

... Ethnic Modernisms: Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Rhys, and the Aes- thetics of Dislocation. By Delia Caparoso Konzett. New York: Palgrave. 2002. xiv, 202 pp. $55.00. Rereading the Harlem Renaissance...

... American Literature . By Michael Soto. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. 228 pp. $39.95. Split-Gut Song: Jean Toomer and the Poetics of Modernity . By Karen Jackson Ford. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. 205 pp. $ 35.00. Book Reviews New England’s Crises and Cultural...

...Jean Franzino Abstract This article considers texts written or sold by disabled Civil War veterans for their economic support as an understudied precursor to twentieth-century disability memoir and an instructive subgenre of the literature of poverty. These so-called mendicant texts challenged...

...Jean M. Lutes © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Love and Marriage in Early African America . Ed. Frances Smith Foster. Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press. 2008. xxvi, 329 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $22.95. Reading Marriage in the American Romance: Remembering Love as Destiny...

...Jean Marie Lutes A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx . By Showalter Elaine . New York : Knopf . 2009 . xiv, 586 pp. Cloth , $30.00 ; paper , $16.95 . Owning Up: Privacy, Property, and Belonging in US Women’s Life Writing...

...Jean Marie Lutes Sentimental Readers: The Rise, Fall, and Revival of a Disparaged Rhetoric . By Halpern Faye . Iowa City : Univ. of Iowa Press . 2013 . xxii , 215 pp. $45.00 . Twentieth-Century Sentimentalism: Narrative Appropriation in American Literature . By Williamson...

...Jean-Thomas Tremblay Ugly Differences: Queer Female Sexuality in the Underground . By Yetta Howard . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois Press . 2018 . ix, 193 pp. Cloth, $99.00 ; paper, $28.00 ; e-book, $19.95 . Fugitive Life: The Queer Politics of the Prison State . By Stephen...

...Richard Jean So So’s essay reconstructs a literary genealogy for the emergence of “information warfare” in the early Cold War period (the 1950s). Specifically, it argues that this form of warfare—which So dubs “literary information warfare”—took shape first and most keenly within the US state’s...

...Jean M. Lutes Abstract The newspaper advice column has shaped the American imagination in unacknowledged ways. Using Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) as a lens into a wily, underestimated genre, I juxtapose West’s riff on the newspaper advice column with readings of the real thing. I...

...Shane Vogel Abstract This article places Ann Petry’s work in conversation with the existential phenomenology of contemporaneous writers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Frantz Fanon. Examining a key sequence in her final novel, The Narrows (1953), the author shows how Petry’s work...

... Brown v. Board of Education decision, Watchman chronicles twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise (“Scout”) Finch’s return to Maycomb, Alabama, from her new home in New York City to visit her ailing father. Through a series of flashbacks to her Southern childhood intertwined with her present-day experiences...

...: Univ. of California Press. 2004. xxi, 342 pp. $27.50. ‘‘I came to see the tragedy of Jean Clemens as the key to the story of Twain’s later life Karen Lystra writes in her preface. It is a key, she argues, that fails to appear in previous scholarship, ranging from Albert Bigelow Paine’s 1587–page...

.... “Enter: The Phoenix!” The X-­Men’s Feminist Cosmology No female figures dominated the visual and affective narrative of the new X-­Men more than the African weather goddess Ororo Monroe, claiming the moniker “Storm,” and the team’s first superheroine, Jean Mutant...

...: The Untold Story of Mark Twain’s Final Years. By Karen Lystra. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2004. xxi, 342 pp. $27.50. ‘‘I came to see the tragedy of Jean Clemens as the key to the story of Twain’s later life Karen Lystra writes in her preface. It is a key, she argues...

... ; paper, $ 34.95 ; e-book, $ 19.95 . Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 In 2016, the Isle de Jean Charles, off the Louisiana coast, received the first US climate resettlement grant, and members of the Isle de Jean Charles Band of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe (IDJC) were...

...Gayle Wald Book Reviews  841 James Weldon Johnson’s Modern Soundscapes. By Noelle Morrissette. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2013. xiii, 243 pp. Paper, $45.00. Jazz Griots: Music as History in the 1960s African American Poem. By Jean...