...Frederick Luis Aldama © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 The Rise of Multicultural America: Economy and Print Culture, 1865–1915 . By Susan L. Mizruchi. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2009. 355 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $24.95. A Genealogy of Literary...

...Elisabeth Anker Out of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel . By Kristiaan Versluys. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2009. x, 226 pp. Cloth, $79.50; paper, $24.50. American Multiculturalism after 9/11: Transatlantic Perspectives . Ed. Derek Rubin and Jaap Verheul. Amsterdam: Amsterdam Univ...

... at the risk of reinforcing stereotypes of Indian savagery. Yet these depictions of the repugnant, that is, of ancient practices now prohibited by law or found reprehensible by a public sense of ethics, allow Howe to escape the integrative thrust of contemporary multiculturalism by preempting identification...

...Alex Feerst 2006 Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions . By A. Robert Lee. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, with University of Edinburgh Press. 2003. x, 307 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95. Urban Triage...

...Cara Fabre Reconstituting Americans: Liberal Multiculturalism and Identity Difference in Post-1960s Literature . By Obourn Megan . New York : Palgrave MacMillan . 2011 . vii , 229 pp. $85.00 . identity complex: Making the Case for Multiplicity . By Hames-García Michael...

...Sarah E. Chinn Emergent US Literatures: From Multiculturalism to Cosmopolitanism in the Late Twentieth Century . By Patell Cyrus R. K. . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2014 . ix, 285 pp. Cloth , $79.00 ; paper, $24.00 ; e-book available. Toward the Geopolitical Novel: US...

... Giunta. New York: Palgrave. 2002. xix, 203 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $18.95. Learning from Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles. By Paula M. L. Moya. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2002. xii, 235...

.... Individuality Incorporated: Indians and the Multicultural Modern. By Joel Pfister. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2004. xiv, 340 pp. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95. George Yúdice and Joel Pfister wrestle with the meaning of culture in a world dominated by consumer capitalism. In The Expediency of Culture...

...Jacob Rama Berman Duke University Press 2007 ­Jacob The Barbarous Voice of Democracy: Rama American Captivity in Barbary and the Berman Multicultural Specter On 25 July 1785, a Boston schooner named the Maria, bound...

...: The Multicultural Literature of the Western American Fron- tiers. By Noreen Groover Lape. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 2000. x, 224 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $24.95. West of the Border participates in the ongoing recovery...

.... Contemporary Jewish American Writers and the Multicultural Dilemma: Return of the Exiled. By Andrew Furman. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Univ. Press. 2000. ix, 214 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $19.95. Ethnic studies...

..., nation, and deliverance promise to enrich our readings of slave narratives, abolitionist novels, and other politically potent genres. Susan M. Ryan, University of Louisville Ruthless Democracy: A Multicultural Interpretation of the American Renaissance. By Timothy B. Powell. Princeton, N.J...

... ; e-book , $50.00 . Pluralist Universalism: An Asian Americanist Critique of US and Chinese Multiculturalisms . By Jin Wen . Columbus : Ohio State Univ. Press . 2012 . xvii , 224 pp. Cloth , $52.95 ; CD , $14.95 . © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 844  American Literature...

... abstraction, the essay contextualizes “multicultural” picture books that enlist animal surrogates within the “here and now” innovations of Lucy Sprague Mitchell’s Bank Street Writers Lab and the animal stories of Margaret Wise Brown. In keeping with studies in developmental psychology that explain how...

... according to the reigning canons of scholarly importance. If early critics of the Jewish American literary field celebrated this emergence, its ethic of assimilation was starkly at odds with an increasingly influential multiculturalism, even as these critics relied on an implicit multicultural logic...

...Megan Obourn Through a reading of Arturo Islas's posthumously published La Mollie and the King of Tears , this essay offers a critique of liberal, multicultural uses of postcolonial hybridity in the context of U.S. literature and literary criticism. The essay reviews current uses of hybridity...

... a contentious, religiously diverse society. The multicultural community that women writers envisioned, however, was founded on the subordination of religious and racial others; moreover, women's Holy Land writings conflated religious and racial otherness as a way of containing difference. The Muslim-Arab became...

...–civil rights liberal multiculturalism, write who they are . The trauma of combat allowed white men to situate themselves within late twentieth-century literary culture by writing not as white men but as “veteran-Americans.” Veteran-American literature set white men within the pluralist institution...

... (mid-1940s to 1960s), liberal multiculturalism (1980s to 1990s), and neoliberal multiculturalism (2000srace-liberal orders” have, in defining the field of the appro- priate and legitimate, set devastating limits to the possibility of over- coming racism. Melamed argues that the first phase...

... what Douglas calls the Christian resurgence of the 1970s and the rise of multiculturalism and postmodernism. That these occurred in tandem is more than mere coincidence in Douglas’s account. Coming on the heels of the postwar conviction of an Abrahamic consensus on religious matters (itself something...