...Cynthia Wu Activism and the American Novel: Religion and Resistance in Fiction by Women of Color . By Romero Channette . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2012 . viii , 217 pp. Cloth , $55.00 ; paper , $22.50 . Guerrillas in the Industrial Jungle: Radicalism’s...

...Christina Chia 836  American Literature The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-Era US Literature and Culture. By Michael Lundblad. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2013. xi, 218 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $29.95. Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines. By Susan McHugh...

... at that moment. But Sedgwick and others working on histories of sexuality in the United States have elided what Lundblad identifies as the discourse of the jungle : Darwinist-Freudian constructions of “the human” and “the animal” that redefine various behaviors in relation to animal instincts. This discourse...

... image of Tarzan is of a white man “flying” from tree to tree through a jungle canopy, an image that’s been imitated so many times as to strip away much of the novelty that originally made it worth imitating. And because this familiarity makes it easy to forget all that the image...

... soldiers watch as preparation for combat,6 make the dominant image of US war that of the soldier lost in the jungle or the Marine wandering the desert. Military training highlights this lack of technology, toughening combatants by denying them the comforts of “civilization.”7 Even as some troops...

... ofaNegrobetween the Jungle and the Room (emblems of reified stasis—statu- ary, walls, repetition—versus signs of wildness—hair, scream, movement) as synecdochic enactment of a larger defining tension between classicism...

...- formances—in particular, undertaking to establish the contrast in Funnyhouse ofaNegrobetween the Jungle and the Room (emblems of reified stasis—statu- ary, walls, repetition—versus signs of wildness—hair, scream, movement...

... Babe [1995]) to synthetic meat experiments to contemplate the uncertain future of human-animal relations in the era of bleeding-age bio­ technology and historically unprecedented slaughter. One way out of the ideology of the jungle is precisely a critical discourse that engages both its animal...

... and the frightening jungle of high modernism. Although Newcomb makes modest claims for some of the for- gotten poets of this era—William Vaughn Moody, Joseph Trumbull Stickney, Edith M. Thomas, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson—he’s stuck for the most part with Stephen Crane. (Of Edward Arlington Robinson, he makes much...

... to speak in a given culture’’ (155). In a reading of ‘‘The Beast in the Jungle which builds on and argues with Eve Sedgwick’s ‘‘The Beast in the Closet Izzo locates the trials of May Bartram, not those of John Marcher...

... 2004 Brief Mention Editions The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition. By Upton Sinclair. Tucson, Ariz.: See Sharp Press. 2003. xxvii, 335 pp. Paper, $12.00. This edition of The Jungle, serialized in 1905 in the socialist journal One-Hoss Philosophy, restores Sinclair’s original...

....” In The Lessons of the Master , 97 – 154 . New York : Scribner's . ———. (1902) 2002 . The Wings of the Dove . New York : Norton . ———. 1903 . “The Beast in the Jungle.” In The Better Sort , 189 – 244 . New York : Scribner's . ———. 1905 . “The Lesson of Balzac.” In The Question of Our...

... closely analyzes such works as Daisy Miller (1878), The American (1877), The Beast in the Jungle (1903), and The Wings of the Dove (1902). These colloquial essays interweave personal anecdotes from Monteiro’s archival experiences with speculations about James’s work, such as the connection between...

...: The Invisible Art . New York : HarperCollins . Mercer Kobena . 1994 . Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies . New York : Routledge . Muñoz José Esteban . 1999 . Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics . Minneapolis : Univ...

... in the Industrial Jungle: Radical- ism’s Primitive and Industrial Rhetoric, 628–31. Review: Romero, Activism and the American Novel: Religion and Resis- tance in Fiction by Women of Color, 628–31. Review: Watkins, Black Power, Yellow Power, and the Making of Revolu- tionary Identities, 628–31...

..., reproducing many of the failures that made essentialism suspect in queer studies to begin with. So in Harris’s calculus, Rita Mae Brown’s novel Rubyfruit Jungle creates a negative externality by undermining the representational potential of gay and lesbian politics with its anti- identitarian...

... poverty?—I posit that it is a question of genealogy. There are multiple ways to address this question; for example, one might begin with John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (1939) or Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906) to think through the exploitation of (white) immigrants and their labor or Ralph...

... of Carnegie and Rockefeller, who argued that all competition was regulated by the law of the jungle. In his implicit defense of his Standard Oil monopoly, for example, Rocke- feller maintained that t]he growth of a large business is merely a survival of the fittest, the working out of a law of nature...

... lives out the remainder of his life in obscurity. His grandson Randy, on the other hand, comes to age as the Cold War is ending. In the altered conditions of his world, Randy recognizes the impossibility of escaping from a global economy (in a university, a Philippine jungle, or anywhere else). He...

...: Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity by Stephen G. Yao, 627–29. Chia, Christina. Review: The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-Era US Literature and Culture by Michael Lundblad; Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines by Susan McHugh, 836–38. Colatrella...