... Unsettling the Literary West: Authenticity and Authorship. By Nathaniel Lewis. Lin- coln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2003. x, 297 pp. $49.95. In the Work of Their Hands Is Their Prayer: Cultural Narrative and Redemption on the American Frontiers, 1830–1930. By Joel Daehnke. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 2003...

...Naomi Greyser Duke University Press 2007 Naomi Affective Geographies: Sojourner Greyser Truth’s Narrative, Feminism, and the Ethical Bind of Sentimentalism When Elizabeth Cady Stanton delivered the radi- cal proposal for women’s...

...Mendi Lewis Obadike Duke University Press 2007 Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity . By Alexander G. Weheliye. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2005. xii, 286 pp. $22.95. Kinds of Blue: The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative. By Jurgen E. Grandt. Columbus...

...Dan Moos Duke University Press 2007 Exploding the Empire: Myths of Empire on the Postmodern Frontier . By Sara L. Spurgeon. Texas A & M Univ. Press. 2005. 189 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $17.95. Spaces of the Mind: Narrative and Community in the American West . By Elaine...

...Ursula K. Heise Duke University Press 2002 Ursula K. Toxins, Drugs, and Global Systems: Risk and Heise Narrative in the Contemporary Novel Much work in the field of ecocriticism, estab- lished in American literary studies during the 1990s, assumes...

...Pamela Lougheed Duke University Press 2002 Pamela ‘‘Then Began He to Rant and Threaten Lougheed Indian Malice and Individual Liberty in Mary Rowlandson’s Captivity Narrative The most notorious battle of King Philip’s War is the Great Swamp...

...Jeanne Elders DeWaard Duke University Press 2002 Jeanne ‘‘Indelicate Exposure Sentiment and Law in Elders Fall River: An Authentic Narrative DeWaard In one of the many pamphlets published in the nine- teenth century about the infamous ‘‘haystack murder...

...Rocco Marinaccio Duke University Press 2002 Rocco George Oppen’s I’ve Seen America’ Book Marinaccio Discrete Series and the Thirties Road Narrative In the late twenties, George and Mary Oppen left George’s well-to-do San Francisco family for two long...

... Gaspar, Duke University Imagining Grace: Liberating Theologies in the Slave Narrative Tradition. By Kim- berly Rae Connor. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2000. xi, 311 pp. $34.95. Kimberly Connor’s Imagining Grace unveils the far-reaching importance of theological aesthetics to the American...

...Paul Giles Duke University Press 2002 Paul Narrative Reversals and Power Exchanges: Giles Frederick Douglass and British Culture Within the last thirty years, Frederick Douglass’s first two autobiographies—Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass...

... about national identity’’ (11) and, as Gardner writes, there is ‘‘a complicated set of American fears about the power of narrative prose to effect rather re- markable changes’’ (22), the study is valuable, especially as a history of—and a reminder to continue debating—these complicated issues of race...

... more Anglo and monocultural around the middle of the nineteenth century and ‘‘other’’ narratives of New World nationality—Indian and Spanish—were beingrelegated to the realm of the national forgotten,eventhoughtheUnited...

... Literature 72:4 / sheet 202 of238 The Narrative Forms of Southern Community. By Scott Romine. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 1999. xi, 226 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $24.95. Scott Romine...

...Jeannine DeLombard Duke University Press 2001 Jeannine ‘‘Eye-Witness to the Cruelty Southern Violence DeLombard and Northern Testimony in Frederick Douglass’s 1845 Narrative 6363...

... these specters as signs of the Vanishing American, the Indians written out of the national narrative while the nation was trying to remove them from the land- 188 American Literature scape. Bergland proceeds by matching authors from each side of this spectral strategy. For instance, Lydia Maria Child’s...

...-democratic tradition—religious, masculine, statist, militarist—many war narratives advanced discourses of sacrifice and preparedness to promote broader metrics of affiliation more likely to achieve national community and the accommodation of a more managerial state. In part, this essay seeks to revise...

... in the critical work of reclaiming lost texts of early America, thereby theoretically enlarging the scope and availability of previously unaccessed slave narratives, protest literature, autobiography, poetry, and fiction, in Beyond Douglass, Michael Drexler and Ed White claim that teachers have continued...

...Erin Gentry Lamb Uses of Literature. By Rita Felski. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 2008. vi, 154 pp. Cloth, $89.95; paper, $31.95. Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible: Cognition, Culture, Narrative. By Lisa Zunshine. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2008. xi...

...: Disease, Poverty, and Deviance in San Francisco . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . Craig Layne Parish . 2010 . “ ‘That Means Children to Me’: The Birth Control Movement in Nella Larsen's Quicksand .” In Gender Scripts in Medicine and Narrative , edited by Block Marcelline...

...Jesse Alemán Book Reviews From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature. By Randall Fuller. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2011. x, 251 pp. $29.95. The Literatures of the US-Mexican War: Narrative, Time, and Identity. By Jaime Javier Rodríguez. Austin: Univ...