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...Edwin J. Barton By John Evangelist Walsh. New York: St. Martin's. 2000. xii, 199 pp. Paper,$14.95. 2001 418 American Literature Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe. By John Evangelist...

...-wrenching and convincing portrayals of military conflicts, from the Civil War to Vietnam. But in general, it is in her analysis of the short stories that Weston excels; her reading of ‘‘Midnight and I’m...

... poetics even as they yearn to make actual experiences meaningful and whole” (152). Susan Howe’s The Midnight (2003) consists of poems that “look at ” language, rather than attempt to “look through ” it (162). Belatedness for Howe is “to reuse what already existed and thus to remake older texts” (170...

... (148). Salman Rushdie, writing with knowledge of political strife in India, engages the child in Midnight’s Children (1980) to celebrate memory as a staged resistance to the forces of oppression. And Toni Morrison, in Beloved...

... Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber (2000), Jeanette Winterson’s Stone Gods (2007), Toni Morrison’s Paradise (1997), and Shahrnush Parsipur’s Women without Men (1998). Each of the five main chapters advances and complicates the cen- tral argument, illustrating how feminist writers conceive of utopia in con...

... through Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project and Susan Howe’s Midnight to Kenneth Goldsmith’s Traffic and Van- essa Place’s Statement of Fact. For Bernstein, it is a stream of language repro- duction technologies—oral, print, electronic, digital, and performative—that increasingly foregrounds...

... of mad Black folks and their demands for racial, social, and political transformation beyond deconstructions of the normal. As Pickens expands in her reading of Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber (2000), mad Blackness comprises a more capacious analytic tool that interrogates how impairments...

...: Heaven as well as Hell, God as well as the Devil. Faith is lost, for all practical purposes: ‘‘Often, awaking suddenly at midnight, he shrank from the bosom of Faith Hawthorne writes; ‘‘his dying hour was gloom 25...

...), and Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber (2000) illuminate interactions and exchanges between black and white tropes. A dialogue between black traditions and white genres, these novels negotiate the present by imagining alternative pasts and futures. Ars Americana, Ars Politica: Partisan Expression...

... of the critics who interpret it. Focusing on the history of Gatsby’s critical reception, but also discussing popular culture, this book traces the lasting influences that made Fitzgerald’s novel a classic. The Century’s Midnight: Dissenting European and American Writers in the Era of the Second World...

... outside the Heavens after-hours club in the Mexican capital; and Alfredo Corchado’s Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter’s Journey through a Country’s Descent into Darkness ( 2013 ), which details Mexican governmental complicity in the lawlessness and high fatality rates of the drug wars. While this essay...

... of the breeze flapping against the tent, the “slight limpid, trickling sound” of the current, as a “whis- pering bustle, as if ten thousand fairies made their fingers fly” (1893, 439). The enchantment of this passage—its vision of a fairy world of midnight, marks segmented sleep as either non-Western...

... midnight rain.5 ‘‘Rain Forest’’ is spoken against the backdrop of a haunting and sensuous blues melody sung by Kehembe, the vocalist featured on Medasi. Here rhythm, lyric, poetry, and harmony commune, success- fully offering a profound and poignant homage to black female subjec- tivity. In fact, I...

..., and John Schlesinger’s Midnight Cowboy, he elaborates a historical understanding of the per- formance of white middle-class masculinity as it transitioned from nineteenth-century notions of manhood into an externalized practice of “consumerist masculinity” in the early twentieth century...

... into the night. In The Gilded Age , Twain writes, “At midnight . . . the great galleries were still thronged” (320), and in the newspaper, these same “great galleries presented a sea of eager, animated faces,” who watched “as speech followed speech from 2 in the afternoon till almost midnight” (Twain 1868d...

... Revere, whose mythic midnight ride around the perimeters of Concord was a tale told and retold throughout the nineteenth century, long before Long- fellow set down his famous ballad about it in 1860. The other is Thomas Paine, whose 1776 pamphlet Common Sense remains, from grade school...

... the George Washington Bridge, an act that produces the traumatic loss animating the ensuing narrative. Rufus’s death takes place after midnight on a cold Saturday night, on the weekend before Thanksgiving of 1955.3 Before concluding with his suicide, the novel’s long opening chapter describes Rufus’s...

... what was as ‘‘clear as light to a person with half a wit that Whitman was ‘‘the spokesman of the universe in any and all its manifestations, decent or indecent Whitman’s persona turned the bridegroom out of bed and stayed with the bride himself; he shared in the midnight orgies of young men...

... his- tory apart from the South’s rebellion itself.”13 Like the riots, though, the poem does not simply end with the masses’ uprising. “Hail to the low dull rumble” of armed repression, the speaker proclaims: Wise Draco comes, deep in the midnight roll Of black artillery; he comes, though...

... of the most frightened (mis)readers in all of Brown’s fiction is Baxter in ‘‘The Man at Home A character developed from Brown’s observations of the yellow fever epidemics in Philadelphia in 1793 and 1797, Baxter falls ill and dies because he believes, falsely, that he has just witnessed the midnight burial...