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... ( 2009 : 315), an Indigenous character concludes that “belonging [is] a matter of deciding to,” an observation that raises important questions about political belonging in the context of coercive US policy. When in 1924 President Calvin Coolidge signed into law the Indian Citizenship Act, 1 Indigenous...

... [western] historians and literary critics (227), Handley advocates a ‘‘return to literary complexity’’ (233). These two fine books con- vincingly prove Handley’s point that ‘‘reality is narratively malleable’’ and sup- port his argument ‘‘for understanding how and why narrative continues to matter...

...: The Archaeology of Southern Fiction . By Annette Trefzer. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2007. xii, 223 pp. $38.50. Matter, Magic, and Spirit: Representing Indian and African American Belief . By David Murray. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2007. 213 pp. $59.95. Crossing Waters...

... human agency, oil, water, and Styrofoam. In Poetry Matters , Milne investigates poems by women “that are socially and materially situated yet not always referential” (5). She applauds the way these writers enact “a poetics of resistance through recontextualization” (6). She draws on new materialism...

...Chris Taylor [email protected] White Writers, Race Matters: Fictions of Racial Liberalism from Stowe to Stockett . By Gregory S. Jay , New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2017 . xi, 370 pp. Cloth, $73.00 ; e-book available. Black Prometheus: Race and Radicalism...

...Paul Giles Why Literary Periods Mattered: Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies . By Underwood Ted . Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ. Press . 2013 . viii , 199 pp. $35.00 . Where Is American Literature? By Levander Caroline F. . Malden, MA : Wiley...

...Anne Gulick Global Matters: The Transnational Turn in Literary Studies . By Jay Paul . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell Univ. Press . 2010 . xi, 231 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $19.95 . Specters of Conquest: Indigenous Absence in Transatlantic Literatures . By Lifshey Adam . New...

... to be precisely the sort of scholarly mono- graph that Dowling champions: its subject matter is a now obscure nineteenth- century American Federalist periodical; Joseph Dennie, the book’s protago- nist...

... with inspirited matter. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 References Allen Thomas M. 2008 . A Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . Asad Talal . 2003 . Formations of the Secular...

... View. By Camille Roman. New York: Pal- grave. 2001. v, 173 pp. $45.00. Home Matters: Longing and Belonging, Nostalgia and Mourning in Women’s Fic- tion. By Roberta Rubenstein. New York: Palgrave. 2001. viii...

... emphatic positive answers. Linda Wagner-Martin, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 6903 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:3 / sheet 179 of 209 Red Matters: Native American Studies. By Arnold Krupat. Philadelphia...

... of What Matters: The Role for Literature in Moral Philosophy. By Anthony Cunningham. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2001. x, 296 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95. This study offers a lucid...

...: Property Matters in African American Literature . By Lovalerie King. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2007. x, 187 pp. Cloth, $110.00; paper, $35.00. Listening on All Sides: Toward an Emersonian Ethics of Reading . By Richard Deming. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2007. viii, 182...

... material limitations. Many of Whitman's 1860 poems, however, also encounter a deathliness of matter (the speaker figured as a “trail of drift and debris,” for instance, in “As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life”). In his “Calamus” cluster especially, Whitman speaks as though from the margins of his own oeuvre...

... notions of authorship, moral authority, and literary value in the second half of the nineteenth century. Noting that a significant strain of commentary on the scandal sought to separate Byron's literary genius from the matter of his personal behavior, Ryan argues that this case study allows us to situate...

....” Whether we can or should agree with their proffered explanation for this “depth”-evading turn—“at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century,” they write, “so much seems to be on the surface”—is a matter that resides beyond the scope of this essay. This article's informing concern instead...

... genealogy of Vietnamese diasporic aesthetics based on the element of fire. Theorizing fire as another critical site of refugee passages, these works evince a pyric refugee onto-epistemology, one that conceives of fire and ash as explicit matter-metaphors of living and beauty that refuse the sensory...

...Mary B. Hale Abstract This article examines a post–Civil War trend in novels that focus on the mechanics of governmental process. Remarkable for the smallness of their concerns, these novels replace the bitter conflicts of the war and Reconstruction with plots that hinge on matters of political...

... cultures and centuries, because of its unique physical nature that combines animal and plant, living and nonliving matter, and that grows continually and unpredictably from the interaction of many small and sometimes invisible forces. Coral’s fluid, composite, indeterminate nature and growth set it apart...

...” matters and of Native geopolitical claims. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Mark Rifkin Shadows of Mashantucket: William Apess and the Representation of Pequot Place Native studies has insisted that Indigenous peo­ ples need...