...D. Berton Emerson Emerson’s essay reassesses representative texts of the popular antebellum tradition known as Old Southwestern Humor—among them Augustus Baldwin Longstreet’s Georgia Scenes (1835), Johnson Jones Hooper’s Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1845), and George Washington Harris’s Sut...

...Lauren Coats; Laura Jones Acts of Narrative Resistance: Women's Autobiographical Writings in the Americas . By Beard Laura J. . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2009 . xiii, 199 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $21.50 . Continental Divides: Remapping the Cultures of North America...

...Suzanne W. Jones Our South: Geographical Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature . By Greeson Jennifer Rae . Cambridge : Harvard Univ. Press . 2010 . x, 356 pp. $39.95 . One Homogeneous People: Narratives of White Southern Identity, 1890–1920 . By Watts Trent . Knoxville...

...Norman W. Jones Duke University Press 2004 Norman W. Coming Out through History’s Hidden Love Jones Letters in Absalom, Absalom! At a Faulkner conference not long ago, a scholar posed the question, ‘‘Why Absalom, Absalom!? Why do we keep return- ing to it...

...Suzanne W. Jones Duke University Press 2006 The U.S. South in Global Contexts: A Collection of Position Statements The following collection of position statements seeks to probe the academic possibilities of ‘‘a new Southern studies’’ as an intellectual enterprise that aims to be, as...

...John Whalen-Bridge By James T. Jones. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 1999. xii,278 pp. $34.95. 2001 Book Reviews 425 that justifies our continuing interest in these figures. Quinney declines to involve herself in the...

... biography, and Jones and like-minded scholars also seek to go beyond the 6363 AMERICAN LITERATURE 73:2 / sheet 200 of 232 legend of Kerouac. The psychoanalytic framework that Jones establishes for his study is well-suited to discussing Kerouac’s ‘‘spontaneous prose...

...David Bergman By John Timberman Newcomb. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2004. xxix,296 pp. Cloth, $74.95; paper, $22.95; CD, $9.95. By Amelia Jones. Cambridge: MIT Press. 2004. ix, 334 pp. $39.95. 2005 192 American Literature Would Poetry Disappear? American Verse and the Crisis of...

...Jan Cohn By Priscilla L. Walton and Manina Jones. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 1999. 327 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $16.95. 2001 Book Reviews 435 against women but writing nature as feminist space’’ (13). The reason in...

...Linda Wagner-Martin By Delia Caparoso Konzett. New York: Palgrave. 2002. xiv, 202 pp.$55.00. By Sharon L. Jones. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2002. ix, 159 pp. $62.95. 2003 Book Reviews 661 negotiate because of a distended, jargon-stuffed prose, styled to approximate...

... around her: Bub, her eight- year-old son; Jones, the superintendent of her tenement apartment building; Min, Jones’s live-in companion; Mrs. Hedges, a tenant and overseer of a ring of local prostitutes; Junto, Hedges’s white business partner and a powerful underworld entrepreneur; and Boots Smith, a...

... Autobiographical Fiction. By James T. Jones. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 1999. xii, 278 pp. $34.95. Jack Kerouac’s Duluoz Legend, a comprehensive study of Kerouac’s fictional...

.... Using book history, Cold War studies, library studies, and literary studies, this book contextualizes reading’s role by analyzing the intersection of form and content in works by J. D. Salinger, Ralph Ellison, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, and Maxine Hong Kingston. James Jones: The Limits of Eternity . By...

... Himes’s If He Hollers Let Him Go (1945), where Bob Jones can afford to eat in fancy downtown hotels but can’t avoid the mistreatment brought on by his race, and of Gordon Parks’s Shaft (1971), whose masterful opening scene...

... home. Barbara Ryan, University of Missouri-Kansas City Detective Agency: Women Rewriting the Hard-Boiled Tradition. By Priscilla L. Walton and Manina Jones. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press...

... sound have given rise, in the last couple of decades, to important critical and theoretical works—by Robert O’Meally, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Fred Moten, Harryette Mullen, Meta DuEwa Jones, Daphne Brooks, Alexander Weheliye, and others—that think “black literature” and “black music” together...

... for belonging within the nation, he suggests that they imagine belonging beyond the boundaries of the nation and too beyond the horizon of citizenship. Across chapters that treat writings by Carlos Bulosan, Rich- ard Wright, C. L. R. James, and Claudia Jones, Keith demonstrates how each writer...

...Alfred Hornung Duke University Press 2006 South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture . Ed. Suzanne W. Jones and Sharon Monteith. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2002. xxiii, 394 pp. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $36.95. History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish...

... Jones, and Charles Johnson, he highlights how African American fiction challenges official antiracist history by focusing on women as key “bridge” figures (7) who connected community activism to the broader movement (Gaines) and by restoring cross-cutting issues surrounding gender and sexuality that had...