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...Robert K. Nelson; Kenneth M. Price Duke University Press 2001 Robert K. Debating Manliness: Thomas Wentworth Nelson and Higginson, William Sloane Kennedy, and the Kenneth M. Question of Whitman Price In 1908 William Sloane Kennedy, one of Walt Whit- man’s...

...Jennifer Kennedy By William C. Dowling. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press. 1999. xv,127 pp. $24.95. 2000 Book Reviews 5995 AL 72:1 / sheet 185 of 246 Authorizing Experience: Refigurations of the Body Politic...

...Jennifer T. Kennedy Duke University Press 2000 Jennifer T. Parricide of Memory: Thomas Jefferson’s Kennedy Memoir and the French Revolution 6141 AL 72:3 / sheet 97 of 237 Thomas...

...Virginia Kennedy © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture . By Shari M. Huhndorf. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2009. xii, 202 pp. $39.95. Manifesting America: The Imperial Construction of U.S...

...Virginia Kennedy © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Listening to the Land: Native American Literary Responses to the Landscape . By Lee Schweninger. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2008. ii, 242 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95. The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space...

...Patricia Kennedy Bostian © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 America the Middlebrow: Women's Novels, Progressivism, and Middlebrow Authorship between the Wars . By Jaime Harker. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2007. viii, 208 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $24.95. Driving...

... unachievable and insatiable desires for and fantasies of an ethnically cleansed America that never was. But as Funchion and Kennedy articulate for us, that absence is part of the antagonistic allure of the past. The object of these nationalistic desires is not some placid prestige of whiteness but a violent...

... the Texas law and overturning the court’s 1986 ruling in Bowers v. Hardwick. Writing for the court majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy issued a statement described as “theoretically ambiguous,” “remarkably opaque,” and “famously obtuse”—one that displays much of the confusion that has long...

..., the ‘‘modern chant sermon the dramatic prefaces of Adrienne Kennedy, the confessional ‘‘autocritography’’ of African American literary critics, and the performative poetics of Amiri Baraka, also the subject...

... Kennedy, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Herman Melville, Joel Chandler Harris, and Mark Twain, arguing that these authors “drew from African American aesthetic techniques to create character portraits that covertly function to demythologize racial definitions.” Dancing on the Color Line: African American...

... Leverenz, and J. Gerald Kennedy are among those critics who see Poe as both in and out of control insofar as the vision of his ‘‘semiconscious’’ texts remains obscured by his racism. Even Whalen, who ascribes to Poe a larger...

... a sample sentence from the chapter on the playwright Kennedy: ‘‘Seeking to control the crisis of incommensurate interpretive tasks by establishing its limit through thematized configurations of specific conflictual linguistic per...

.... of Chicago Press . Ferguson Niall , ed. 1998 . Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals . London : Papermac . Foner Eric . 2010 . The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery . New York : Norton . Greenfield Jeff . 2013 . If Kennedy Had Lived: The First...

... the development and contain- ment of this tension in his work. Taking Measure: The Poetry and Prose of X. J. Kennedy. By Bernard E. Morris. Selins- grove, Pa.: Susquehanna Univ. Press; Cranbury, N.J.: Associated Univ...

... Powell Kennedy. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2015. ix, 225 pp. $65.00. This study uses Benedict Anderson’s concept of imagined communities to think about “nationhood as a performed entity.” Using the Spanish-American War as a critical turning point, Kennedy argues that new models...

... Scenes by Augustus Baldwin Long- street, Swallow Barn by John Pendleton Kennedy, In Ole Virginia by Thomas Nelson Page, Lanterns on the Levee by William Alexander Percy, and Light in August by William...

... Scenes by Augustus Baldwin Long- street, Swallow Barn by John Pendleton Kennedy, In Ole Virginia by Thomas Nelson Page, Lanterns on the Levee by William Alexander Percy, and Light in August by William...

..., 6986 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:4 / sheet 209 of 255 as Justice Anthony Kennedy said so eloquently in his opinion on behalf of the majority in the recent Lawrence v. Texas decision that overturned Texas’s same-sex antisodomy statute, that a]s...

... AMERICAN LITERATURE 73:2 / sheet 211 of 232 Life of a Slave Girl; Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior and Hisaye Yamamoto’s ‘‘The Legend of Miss Sasagawara and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Storyteller and Adrienne Kennedy’s People Who Led to My...

... of their aristocratic Norman blood. The seeds for such a myth of racial difference, Watson argues, sprout as early as the 1820s in plantation romances by George Tucker, John Pendleton Kennedy, William Alexander Caruthers, and John Easten Cooke, whose fantasies of an aristocratic planter tradition...