... Rights movement and the anti–Vietnam War pro- tests, women grew more conscious of their disadvantaged position in society’’ (151). When he gets down to texts and performances, though, Wilmer largely presents a history that reaches beyond lifestyle choices and sudden revela- tions of disadvantaged...

...Charles Scruggs Duke University Press 2007 The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s . By James Edward Smethurst. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. xv, 471 pp. $59.95. The Modernist Nation: Generation, Renaissance, and Twentieth-Century...

.... Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2005. viii, 223 pp. $80.00. To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau's Concord . By Sandra Harbert Petrulionis. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2006. xi, 233 pp. $29.95. Book Reviews Godly Letters: The Literature...

...John Marsh Duke University Press 2007 John A Lost Art of Work: Marsh The Arts and Crafts Movement in Carl Sandburg’s Chicago Poems Our only criteria of judgment should not be whether or not a man’s actions...

.../Fluxus, and the Black Arts Movement . By Mike Sell. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2005. vi, 327 pp. $60.00. Performance in America: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the Performing Arts . By David Román. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2005. xx, 353 pp. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95. Book...

...J. Peter Moore Book Reviews 201 Bodies on the Line: Performance and the Sixties Poetry Reading. By Raphael Allison. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2014. xvii, 250 pp. Paper, $49.95; e-book, $49.95. In Visible Movement: Nuyorican...

...Evie Shockley Spectacular Blackness: The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic . By Ongiri Amy Abugo . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2010 . x, 223 pp. Cloth , $55.00 ; paper , $22.50 . Specters of Democracy...

...José E. Limón Mythohistorical Interventions: The Chicano Movement and Its Legacies . By Bebout Lee . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2011 . 264 pp. Paper , $25.00 . Of Space and Mind: Cognitive Mappings of Contemporary Chicano/a Fiction . By Hamilton Patrick L...

... Arts Movement . By Phelps Carmen L. . Jackson : Univ. Press of Mississippi . 2013 . 188 pp. $49.50 . © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Book Reviews The Erotics of Sovereignty: Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination. By Mark Rifkin. Minneapolis: Univ...

... and upheld by the 2007 Supreme Court decision Gonzales v. Carhart , with no exception for cases in which the health of the patient is at risk. The PBA ban was the crowning achievement in a movement toward writing laws that targeted abortion providers rather than the people seeking abortions (with limits...

...Edlie Wong Against the Gallows: Antebellum American Writers and the Movement to Abolish Capital Punishment . By Jones Paul Christian . Iowa City : Univ. of Iowa Press . 2011 . x , 230 pp. $35.00 . Remaking Custom: Law and Identity in the Early American Republic...

...Samantha Pinto Radical Sensations: World Movements, Violence, and Visual Culture . By Streeby Shelley . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2013 . xxii , 328 pp. Cloth , $94.95 ; paper , $25.95 ; e-book , $25.95 . Humanitarian Violence: The US Deployment of Diversity...

...Megan Sweeney 2005 Fugitive Thought: Prison Movements, Race, and the Meaning of Justice . By Michael Hames-García. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2004. lii, 352 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95; Questionable Charity: Gender, Humanitarianism, and Complicity in U.S. Literary...

... offers possibilities for locating live options within historical periods marked by despair and, therefore, for remapping the Black world from one of negation to one within what Hansberry called an affirmative movement in history. The Village becomes a location for recognition and misrecognition...

...Arielle Zibrak Abstract The article describes the impact of two popular fin de siècle philosophical movements—Arts and Crafts and New Thought—on both well-known authors like Frank Norris and Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the lesser-known writers it reads more closely: Ella Wheeler Wilcox...

...Allison S. Curseen Abstract Focusing on the minor details of suffering cats, I read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer as an exemplary illustration of the way in which American novels of individual development destabilize around the movement of minor bodies and minor characters. This destabilization...

... for a rising generation of Chicana activists, highlighting how the absence of young men from Mexican families laid bare the gender dynamics of family life. Véa's and Santana's novels revise familiar narratives of the Chicana/o movement, calling attention not to the way the movement was parochial and sexist...

... movement and the gay liberation movement to figure “mutation” as an expansive form of cultural difference that wedded fantasy to the ideals of radical politics. By linking the fictional category of mutation to lived categories of difference, the X-Men series produced a mainstream popular fantasy...

... jostle against one another in a marketplace largely unregulated by any external authority. Herrick implicitly associates this energizing, though unsettling, model of US health care with both the labor movement (the novel is set in the same year as Chicago’s Pullman strike) and certain aspects of the New...

... and politically committed field of scholarship dedicated to revising humanity’s conventional associations of materiality with passivity and predictability. While this is ostensibly a “new” movement, placing new materialism in the context of American literary history underscores how old—or rather timeless...