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Faulkner and the Politics of Reading; Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner's “Go Down, Moses”

Jason Gary Horn
American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 194–196.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-1-194
Published: 01 March 2005
... Faulkner and the Politics of Reading. By Karl F. Zender. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2002. xviii, 179 pp. $29.95. Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner’s ‘‘Go Down, Moses By Thadious M. Davis. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. xi, 339 pp. Cloth, $64.95; paper, $21.95...
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On (Not) Waiting for Godot : Absurdity and Action in Mississippi

Paige McGinley
American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 151–167.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10345449
Published: 01 March 2023
...Paige McGinley Abstract This article traces the reinvention and circulation of existential thought and action through the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the first half of the 1960s, especially in Mississippi. Here, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bob Moses, and the founders of the Free Southern...
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Consuming George Thompson

David M. Stewart
American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 233–263.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-002
Published: 01 June 2008
... the labor they required but in bodily terms that threatened the wider social order over which they presided. The exemplary figure for this masculinity was Mose, Bowery B’hoy and hero of A Glance at New York. B’hoys were men from New York’s Bowery known for their toughness...
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Sono-Montage: Langston Hughes and Tony Schwartz Listen to Postwar New York

Lisa Hollenbach
American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 275–302.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2886127
Published: 01 June 2015
... . Cambridge, UK : Cambridge Univ. Press . Biondi Martha . 2003 . To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City . Cambridge : Harvard Univ. Press . ———. 2007 . “ Robert Moses, Race, and the Limits of an Activist State .” In Robert Moses and the Modern City...
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Transforming Geographies of Black Time: How the Free Southern Theater Used the Plantation for Civil Rights Activism

Julius B. Fleming, Jr.
American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 587–617.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7722140
Published: 01 September 2019
... yet” (quoted in Dent, Schechner, and Moses 1969 : 81). Moreover, Costley’s encounter with the land signals the importance of Mississippi’s plantation geographies to the Free Southern Theater’s political visions, aesthetic preoccupations, and efforts to unsettle the violent cultures of black patience...
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Creative Conflict in African American Thought: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey;Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture;Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era

Ira Dworkin
American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 421–424.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-2-421
Published: 01 June 2005
...Ira Dworkin By Wilson Jeremiah Moses. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2004. xviii, 308 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95. By Shawn Michelle Smith. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2004. xviii, 225 pp. Cloth, $74.95; paper, $21.95. By Marlon Ross. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2004. xii...
View articletitled, Creative Conflict in African American Thought: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey;Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture;Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era View PDF for article titled, Creative Conflict in African American Thought: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey;Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture;Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era
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Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories; Without Regard to Race: The Other Martin Robison Delany

Adam Gussow
American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 887–889.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-4-887
Published: 01 December 2004
... with hu- manizing fact as a way of setting heroism on a firmer footing. Humez’s Tub- 888 American Literature man is both a latter-day Moses and an illiterate trickster of formidable pro- portions, at once shrewdly self-promoting, egoless, and determined to follow the dictates of an ecstatic...
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White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies and Gentlemen of Colour: William Brown's African and American Theater; Theatre, Society, and the Nation: Staging American Identities; The Federal Theatre Project: A Case Study

John Ernest
American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 409–411.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-2-409
Published: 01 June 2005
..., Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey.ByWil- son Jeremiah Moses. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2004. xviii, 308 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95. Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture.By Shawn Michelle Smith. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press...
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Environmental Renaissance: Emerson, Thoreau, and the Systems of Nature; Conserving Words: How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Movement

Timothy Sweet
American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 411–413.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-2-411
Published: 01 June 2005
... cultural and ethnic identity. Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio State University Creative Conflict in African American Thought: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey.ByWil- son Jeremiah Moses. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2004. xviii, 308 pp...
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Emerson's Transcendental Etudes; The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe

Nina Baym
American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 414–416.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-2-414
Published: 01 June 2005
... cultural and ethnic identity. Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio State University Creative Conflict in African American Thought: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey.ByWil- son Jeremiah Moses. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2004. xviii, 308 pp...
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Monumental Melville: The Formation of a Literary Career; So Long! Walt Whitman's Poetry of Death; To Walt Whitman, America

Michael Robertson
American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 416–418.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-2-416
Published: 01 June 2005
..., Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey.ByWil- son Jeremiah Moses. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2004. xviii, 308 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95. Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture.By Shawn Michelle Smith. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press...
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History's Shadow: Native Americans and Historical Consciousness in the Nineteenth Century; Indian Country: Travels in the American Southwest; Injun Joe's Ghost: The Indian Mixed-Blood in American Writing

Frederick Luis Aldama
American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 418–421.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-2-418
Published: 01 June 2005
... cultural and ethnic identity. Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio State University Creative Conflict in African American Thought: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey.ByWil- son Jeremiah Moses. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2004. xviii, 308 pp...
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The Poetics of National and Racial Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Guys like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics

Eric Schocket
American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 424–426.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-2-424
Published: 01 June 2005
... cultural and ethnic identity. Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio State University Creative Conflict in African American Thought: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey.ByWil- son Jeremiah Moses. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2004. xviii, 308 pp...
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Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance; Cruising Modernism: Class and Sexuality in American Literature and Social Thought

Dwight A. McBride
American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 426–428.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-2-426
Published: 01 June 2005
... cultural and ethnic identity. Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio State University Creative Conflict in African American Thought: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey.ByWil- son Jeremiah Moses. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2004. xviii, 308 pp...
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Transformations of Domesticity in Modern Women's Writing: Homelessness at Home

Amanda Grzyb
American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 428–429.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-2-428
Published: 01 June 2005
..., Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey.ByWil- son Jeremiah Moses. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2004. xviii, 308 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95. Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture.By Shawn Michelle Smith. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press...
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Risking Difference: Identification, Race, and Community in Contemporary Fiction and Feminism; Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory: (Un)becoming the Subject

Jennifer Williams
American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 430–432.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-2-430
Published: 01 June 2005
... cultural and ethnic identity. Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio State University Creative Conflict in African American Thought: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey.ByWil- son Jeremiah Moses. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2004. xviii, 308 pp...
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The Expediency of Culture: Uses of Culture in the Global Era; Individuality Incorporated: Indians and the Multicultural Modern

Kendall Johnson
American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 432–434.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-2-432
Published: 01 June 2005
... cultural and ethnic identity. Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio State University Creative Conflict in African American Thought: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey.ByWil- son Jeremiah Moses. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2004. xviii, 308 pp...
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Existentialisms: Blackness, Literature, Performance

Soyica Diggs Colbert, Douglas A. Jones, Jr., Paige McGinley, Shane Vogel
American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 115–121.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10345393
Published: 01 March 2023
... filmed version of that production was released on Amazon Prime the following year. The most striking difference between the 2017 and 2021 productions was in the final moments of the play. Whereas in the earlier version, the police kill Moses, the Broadway version does not end with his murder...
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Neurodiverse Afro-Fabulations: Pauline Hopkins’s Counterintelligence

Stephen Knadler
American Literature (2022) 94 (2): 301–329.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9779050
Published: 01 June 2022
... Press . Kindle edition. Hopkins Pauline . 2007a . “ Artists .” In Daughter of the Revolution: The Major Nonfiction Works of Pauline E. Hopkins , edited by Dworkin Ira , 185 – 92 . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers Univ. Press . Hopkins Pauline . 2007b . “ Harriet Tubman (‘Moses...
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The Verdict from the Porch: Zora Neale Hurston and Reparative Justice

Philip Joseph
American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 455–483.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-3-455
Published: 01 September 2002
... that takes place on the porch. While Sam Watson, Lige Mosely, and Walter Thomas take great pleasure in inserting themselves and their opinions into a conversa- tion, they seem much less interested in making a final statement, or even in persuading their interlocutors, than they do in promoting more talk...
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