... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

... 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...

...Jeanne Elders DeWaard Duke University Press 2002 Jeanne ‘‘Indelicate Exposure Sentiment and Law in Elders Fall River: An Authentic Narrative DeWaard In one of the many pamphlets published in the nine- teenth century about the infamous ‘‘haystack murder...

...Deak Nabers Duke University Press 2003 Deak ‘‘Victory of LAW Melville and Reconstruction Nabers 6815 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:1 / sheet 5 of 252 In his famous ‘‘Supplement’’ to Battle-Pieces...

...Laura H. Korobkin Duke University Press 2000 Laura H. Murder by Madman: Criminal Responsibility, Korobkin Law, and Judgment in Wieland 6218 American Literature 72:4 / sheet 31 of238 At a critical moment in Charles...

... of other seventeenth-century dissenters from Puritan orthodoxy and the ways the authorities dealt with them. These cases lead naturally to Rice’s reconsideration of the Zenger case, the occasion when common law was over...

... are assessed ac- cording to how much each recognizes or denies its own ‘‘multicultural uncon- scious The book works adroitly with histories of Indian removal, nativism, anti- miscegenation laws, Liberian colonization attempts, anti-Mexican sentiment in California, and the like, to construct U.S. history...

...Steven Belletto © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Civic Myths: A Law-and-Literature Approach to Citizenship . By Brook Thomas. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2007. xiii, 298 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $21.95. A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature...

...Stephanie A. Smith © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820–1870 . By Karen Woods Weierman. x, 214 pp. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2005. $34.95. Modern Love: Romance, Intimacy...

.... Other Words: American Indian Literature, Law, and Culture. By Jace Weaver. Nor- man: Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 2001. xiv, 381 pp. $34.95. 6849 AMERICAN LITERATURE 75:2 / sheet 208 of 246 The danger facing American literary studies...

...; 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...

... 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...

... enslaved women found themselves when suffering the abuse of slaveholders. These women's shifting legal subject-positions posed theoretical problems within this particular power relationship, as the boundary distinguishing the law's treatment of slaves as property and persons blurred. An enslaved woman's...

... Cases . By Kristin Boudreau. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus. 2006. 292 pp. Paper, $20.00. Victory of Law: The Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil War, and American Literature, 1852-1867 . By Deak Nabers. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2006. xii, 234 pp. $49.95. Book Reviews Heartless...