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

...Marissa López Duke University Press 2007 Spain's Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire . By María DeGuzmán. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2005. xxxiii, 372 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00. The Twentieth-Century Spanish American...

... the poetry, wherein we can contemplate more keenly the resilience of imagination on the other side of loss. James Applewhite, Duke University Jack Kerouac’s Duluoz Legend: The Mythic Form of an...

... 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...

... a stunning array of source material, these books ask how contemporary legends simultaneously feed off and into the major bases of social division that structure U.S. society. Ingebretsen focuses pri...

... legends surrounding Poe’s demise. The most persistent of these is ‘‘that Poe was captured by an electioneering band [in Baltimore], ‘cooped’ [imprisoned inacellar],drugged,draggedtothepolls,andafterhavingvotedthe 6363 AMERICAN...

... a stunning array of source material, these books ask how contemporary legends simultaneously feed off and into the major bases of social division that structure U.S. society. Ingebretsen focuses pri...

... 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...

... the striking tale, from Quigley’s The Prophet of the Ruined Abbey (1885), a ferociously nationalist faux-legend, to Maureen Howard’s dazzling 6363 AMERICAN LITERATURE 73:2 / sheet 208 of 232 Natural History (1992). Yet he reserves most respect for realist...

... (1885), a ferociously nationalist faux-legend, to Maureen Howard’s dazzling 6363 AMERICAN LITERATURE 73:2 / sheet 208 of 232 Natural History (1992). Yet he reserves most respect for realist immigrant accounts. Fanning wears his...

... narrative genres, combined so as to reorder our understanding of good and evil; I then move to the Pocahontas legend to discuss the impor- tant role of Indians in fictionally triangulating European relationships; and I...

... American Quilt to legends and storytelling in Zitkala Ša’s Ameri- can Indian Stories,aswellasChesnutt’sThe Conjure Woman. Each chapter joins literature from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to suggest how...

... offering a particular vision of what schooling did, could, or should look like” (4). Speicher’s large and varied archive of 125 texts includes a few better-known works, such as “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (1820) and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), but it mainly comprises an array of heretofore...

... during the Civil War. Tubman’s already legend- ary role as an antebellum Moses was supplanted in 1863 by her audacious (if informal) co-generalship in the Combahee River Raid, a foray that lib- erated hundreds of slaves and assured Tubman’s reputation as a feminist exemplar in Garrisonian antislavery...

... Native American Legends of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley. Ed. Katharine B. Judson. DeKalb: Northern Illinois Univ. Press. 2000. 204 pp. Cloth, $38.00; paper, 6218 American Literature 72:4 / sheet 210 of238 $18.00. First...

... begins by charting the early cultural mythologies of Antarctica before examining the ways the continent has inspired gothic fanta- sies and heroic legends as well as unique understandings of literary produc- tion, travel, and time. By examining exploration narratives alongside the works of poets...

... case a race defined by a “bold and hardy” pioneering spirit that makes for an appeal- ing, if false, legend; and in Mudgett’s work, quoting Melville’s Billy Budd (1924), a “juvenile race” (xxvii) patronized and ignored by elites. In both cases mariners also appear as a race apart, suffering more...

... false, legend; and in Mudgett’s work, quoting Melville’s Billy Budd (1924), a “juvenile race” (xxvii) patronized and ignored by elites. In both cases mariners also appear as a race apart, suffering more discrimination and earn- ing less legal protection than other American laborers—even, Mudgett...

... tactic of sending unauthorized reprints to court US authors in the 1840s and 1850s. 7 However, other publishers tried the same tactic with Longfellow. In September 1851, having heard that Longfellow was preparing The Golden Legend , George Routledge and Company wrote to him, offering £20 for advanced...

... placed in parallel contrast to the early demise of the Wild West’s outlaw Billy the Kid. Momaday uses the legend of Billy the Kid to castintoreliefthehistoryoftheKiowa’sorigininthewildernessand their declension from it; in his personal retracing of that migration, he hopes to reverse American...