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...’ convoluted forms and narrative fragmentation the traces of the struggle to reconcile this interest with US settler colonialism. Angela Calcaterra’s Literary Indians also offers strikingly new ways to read American literary history, in her case by centering Native aesthetic practices. Calcaterra...

...) and “Recitatif” offer Larkin a model for historicizing not literary texts but our students’ and our own reading practices. Moya, whose final chapter also focuses on A Mercy , perhaps maintains greater optimism in literature’s social imperative: to teach all readers “another way to be human and free” through...

...Etsuko Taketani Tricksters and Cosmopolitans: Cross-Cultural Collaborations in Asian American Literary Production . By Rei Magosaki . New York : Fordham Univ. Press . 2016 . viii, 157 pp. Cloth, $90.00 ; paper, $25.00 ; e-book, $24.99 . East-West Literary Imagination...

...Kenyon Gradert The Islamic Lineage of American Literary Culture: Muslim Sources from the Revolution to Reconstruction . By Jeffrey Einboden . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2016 . xv, 216 pp. Cloth, $ 87.00 ; e-book available. Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic...

...Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination: Innocence by Association . By Gray Jonathan W. . Jackson : Univ. Press of Mississippi . 2013 . ix , 164 pp. Cloth , $55.00 ; paper , $30.00 . Hip Figures: A Literary History of the Democratic Party...

.... Writing out of Place: Regionalism, Women, and American Literary Culture.By Judith Fetterley and Marjorie Pryse. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2003. 422 pp. $44.95. Translating Southwestern Landscapes: The Making of an Anglo Literary Region.By Audrey Goodman. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press. 2002...

...Philomena Polefrone Abstract This essay argues that American literary naturalism engages with the Anthropocene at the moment it began to be visible, the turn of the twentieth century, and specifically identifies the role of finance in precipitating the crisis. Frank Norris’s The Octopus (1901...

... tendency to categorize literary and scholarly texts as either good or bad takes on primitivism—sometimes undermines the subtlety of his own analyses, constructing a version of utopia that is less a concrete alternative to capitalism than a placeholder for moral purity. What both Kotin and Etherington...

...Dana D. Nelson Unconventional Politics: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and U.S. Indian Policy . By Janet Dean . Amherst : Univ. of Massachusetts Press . 2016 . xii, 255. Paper, $25.95 . Archives of Labor: Working-Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United...

...Aarthi Vadde Enumerations: Data and Literary Study . By Andrew Piper . Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press . 2018 . xiii, 243. Cloth, $90.00 ; paper, $27.50 ; e-book available. Passwords: Philology, Security, Authentication . By Brian Lennon . Cambridge, MA : Harvard...

... premised on the significance of consumer data as the raw material of economic interpretation and fixated on mathematical analysis as a source of knowledge about value. Marginalism in economic theory and realism in American literary practice were contemporaneous efforts to mediate value at a moment...

...Kathryn Walkiewicz Yaqui Indigeneity: Epistemology, Diaspora, and the Construction of Yoeme Identity . By Ariel Zatarain Tumbaga . Tucson : Univ. of Arizona Press . 2018 . 215 pp. Paper, $35.00 ; e-book, $35.00 . Our War Paint Is Writers’ Ink: Anishinaabe Literary...

...Lori Merish Greyser’s training in the history of rhetoric is apparent in her breadth of sources, from literary texts to letters, journals, government and legal documents, newspaper articles, and maps, as well as visual cultural forms. But especially given this impressive range—and the array...

... Racism and Violence in Current US Literary and Cultural Criticism Represent and Destroy: Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capi- talism. By Jodi Melamed. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2011. 304 pp. Paper, $25.00. Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality...

... to southern whites’ suppression of their own sexuality. A Massachusetts court suppressed Strange Fruit on the ground that its many references to sexuality tainted it regardless of their contribution to its literary value. Bachman argues that the opinion’s hypocriticism mirrors the obscene logic...

...Scott Hess Abstract This essay explores the overlooked significance of Cedar Hill, the landscape estate Frederick Douglass bought in 1877 near Washington, DC, both as a literary landscape and as a form of participation in the nineteenth-century elite culture of nature. Literary landscapes...

...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...

...Christine So © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Beyond Literary Chinatown . By Jeffrey F. L. Partridge. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press. 2007. xvii, 246 pp. Paper, $24.95. The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene . By Celine...

...Lee Schweninger © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Art as Performance, Story as Criticism: Reflections on Native Literary Aesthetics . By Craig S. Womack. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 2009. 406 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $24.95. We Will Dance Our Truth: Yaqui History...

.... Popular History and the Literary Marketplace, 1840–1920 . By Gregory M. Pfitzer. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2008. xiv, 469 pp. Cloth, $98.00; paper, $29.95. Book Reviews National History and the World of Nations: Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of His- tory in Japan, France...