... and intertwined beliefs that African Americans were children, and that children's subjectivities could be shaped according to the will of their educators. © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Anna Mae ​“Like a Motherless Child”: Racial Education Duane at the New York African Free School...

... positions and offers detailed accounts of specific plays and artists that most readers will find very useful. A more savvy historian than Wilmer, Barry Witham, like McAllister, tells alargestorybyholdingtoarelativelynarrowfocusinThe Federal Theatre Project. Established by an act of Congress in 1935...

...- domasanidealleadsustoignoreourresponsibilitiesfordoingjustice.With its emphasis on the subject’s liberty, the American version of freedom entitles the subject to appropriate, annihilate, or neglect the persecuted other. Free- dom and justice are in constant tension in American literature, with thinkers like Thomas Jefferson and St. John de Crèvecoeur embracing...

...Scott Saul 2005 Blows like a Horn: Beat Writing, Jazz, Style, and Markets in the Transformation of U.S. Culture . By Preston Whaley Jr. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2004. 260 pp. $29.95; Notes to Make the Sound Come Right: Four Innovators of Jazz Poetry . By T. J. Anderson III...

... Press . 2013 . xx , 290 pp. Paper , $45.00 ; e-book , $45.00 . Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature . By Day Sarah K. . Jackson : Univ. Press of Mississippi . 2013 . i , 240 pp. $55.00 . © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...

...- jects with a respect—even a delight—that enlivens their arguments and helps tomakethemsatisfying. Carlo Rotella, Boston College Looking like What You Are: Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity...

...Joanna Brooks Book Reviews Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer. By Michael A. Elliott. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2007. vii, 336 pp. $25.00. Speak Like Singing: Classics of Native American Literature. By Kenneth Lincoln. Albuquerque...

... connection, that is, by affiliating with (choosing to act like or resemble) a church or state father—an act of representation ultimately embodied in Puri- tan conversion, which John Cotton terms a ‘‘better birth’’ because it refiliates...

... Fabre Michel . New York : Harper and Row . Susan “Just Like Home”: Louise Richard Wright, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edmunds and the New Deal Few critics can get through an essay on Native Son (1940) without citing Richard Wright’s famous rejection...

...Robert F. Reid-Pharr In a reading of Samuel R. Delany's underexamined 1984 science fiction novel, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand , Reid-Pharr uses the work of theorists such as Leo Bersani, Mary Douglas, Orlando Patterson, and Hortense Spillers to question the necessity of gay men's...

...-processing powers—from machine translation to early AI. This article contextualizes the computer poetry of Alison Knowles, Nanni Balestrini, and others within the scientific concerns of mathematicians like Theo Lutz and linguists like Margaret Masterman. Framed by governmental power, university funding...

... in the historiography of wartime culture. Cohen analyzes a series of contraband works: abolitionist poems by John Greenleaf Whittier; African American spirituals like “O Let My People Go”; minstrel songs like “Kingdom Coming”; and an assortment of anonymous poems published as broadsides and in periodicals...

...Merve Emre This essay argues that literary redescriptions of international American Express offices by queer writers like Gregory Corso, William S. Burroughs, and James Baldwin allowed the 1960s literary counterculture to establish a relationship to American corporate culture grounded in irony...

...Emily Ogden Controversy over Freudian approaches to Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly (1799) has obscured the novel’s sensory politics. Psychoanalytic readers like Leslie Fiedler, in Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), discovered in Brown’s novel a striking confirmation...

... of “in-betweenness.” Reading popular fiction like Lippard’s and Southworth’s and visual material like The Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley for how it depicts the recurrence and copresence of temporalities alerts us to the narrative forms of settlement and reminds us of earlier efforts...

...Laura H. Korobkin This essay challenges received readings of William Dean Howells’s A Modern Instance and well-established critical assumptions that associate his realist project with public male legal discourse and define it strongly against presumptively feminine rhetorical strategies like...

...-color stories and toward a recognition of how local color constituted an aesthetic that could be configured in radically antithetical ways by an archrealist like Mary Murfree and an impressionist like Hamlin Garland. Ultimately, local color helps us see realism not as an indiscriminate, antiliterary...