... strictly within the discursive operations of subject formation. Vive la différence! Susan McHugh, University of New England DOI 10.1215/00029831-2395465 Native Acts: Law, Recognition, and Cultural Authenticity. By Joanne Barker. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press. 2011. ix, 284 pp. Cloth, $84.95...

... of Beyond Cheering and Bashing: New Perspectives on the Closing of the American Mind (Bowling Green Popular Press, 1992). Banished: Common Law and the Rhetoric of Social Exclusion in Early New England . By Goodman Nan . Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press . 2012 . 206 pp. Cloth...

... approaches that promise new scholarly directions in the field. 6986 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:4 / sheet 207 of 255 Peter Kvidera, John Carroll University In Defiance of the Law: From Ann Hutchinson to Toni Morrison. By Marisa Anne...

... Faulkner and the Politics of Reading. By Karl F. Zender. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2002. xviii, 179 pp. $29.95. Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner’s ‘‘Go Down, Moses By Thadious M. Davis. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. xi, 339 pp. Cloth, $64.95; paper, $21.95...

.... The Fugitive’s Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession. By Stephen M. Best. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2004. xii, 362. Cloth, $69.00; paper, $25.00. Bringing these three studies together raises a fundamental question for Americanists: to what extent do the stories we tell about the nineteenth...

...Susan K. Harris Out in Public: Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America. By Alison Piepmeier. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2004. xi, 278 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95. Executing Race: Early American Women's Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law...

...Emily Klein Duke University Press 2007 Women, Money, and the Law: Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Gender, and the Courts . By Joyce W. Warren. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2005. viii, 373 pp. $44.95. Belabored Professions: Narratives of African American Working Womanhood...

...; paper, $24.50. Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of Identity . By Daniel Y. Kim. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2005. xxviii, 286 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95. Wounded Hearts: Masculinity, Law, and Literature...

... Literature . By English Daylanne K. . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2013 . 230 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper , $25.00 . Constructing the Enemy: Empathy/Antipathy in US Literature and Law . By Srikanth Rajini . Philadelphia : Temple Univ. Press . 2012 . 205 pp. Cloth...

...Guyora Binder [email protected] Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing Literature . By Karla FC Holloway . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2014 . xvi, 158 pp. Cloth, $89.95 ; paper, $23.95 ; e-book available. Literary Obscenities: U.S. Case Law and Naturalism...

... these texts through Cedric Robinson’s theorization of the Black Radical Tradition, which “never allowed for property,” this essay argues that both texts bring into being a world that precedes and exceeds the violence of legal regulation. Jacobs and Long Soldier both locate an alternative to law in the radical...

...Ted Hamilton Abstract This article describes how the law inflects the narration of environmental conflict in William T. Vollmann’s Dying Grass (2015) and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead (1991). By focusing on the legal common sense of settler colonialism—its emphasis on private property...

... in narrative and law. It examines how land’s agency appears in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Mason Land Case. It does so first from a colonial perspective, where land is inert property and Native peoples are unable to comprehend land as such, then from a Mohegan perspective, where land is a societal...

...Wyn Kelley “A Bold and Hardy Race of Men”: The Lives and Literature of American Whalemen . By Schell Jennifer . Amherst : Univ. of Massachusetts Press . 2013 . xiv , 262 pp. Cloth, $80.00 ; paper, $28.95 . Writing the Seaman's Tale in Law and Literature: Dana, Melville...

...-Determination . By Mark Rifkin . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2017 . xvii, 277 pp. Cloth , $99.95 ; paper, $25.95 ; e-book available. Imagining Sovereignty: Self-Determination in American Indian Law and Literature . By David J. Carlson . Norman : Univ. of Oklahoma Press . 2016...

... and the Cultural Study of Law . By Cheryl Suzack . Toronto : Univ. of Toronto Press . 2017 . x, 192 pp. Paper, $25.95 ; e-book, $25.95 . Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 The two books under review both address the law as an instrument of colonial power and the occulted role...

...Claudia Sadowski-Smith Enemies of All Humankind: Fictions of Legitimate Violence . By Sonja Schillings . Lebanon, NH : Dartmouth College Press . 2017 . xi, 287 pp. Cloth, $95.00 ; paper, $40.00 ; e-book, $7.99 . Gendered Asylum: Race and Violence in U.S. Law and Politics...

...Edlie Wong Against the Gallows: Antebellum American Writers and the Movement to Abolish Capital Punishment . By Jones Paul Christian . Iowa City : Univ. of Iowa Press . 2011 . x , 230 pp. $35.00 . Remaking Custom: Law and Identity in the Early American Republic...

... upon the analytics for articulating racial difference honed in US race and ethnic studies to help illuminate Williams’s literary efforts to formulate an early politics of comparative racialization. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Edlie Wong Comparative Racialization, Immigration Law...

... the predicament of a territorially bounded freedom. © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Edlie “Freedom with a Vengeance”: Wong Choosing Kin in Antislavery Literature and Law North Carolina Whig Congressman Samuel Tred- well Sawyer, the equivocal “Mr. Sands...