...Crystal Parikh The Fiction of South Asians in North America and the Caribbean: A Critical Study of English-Language Works since 1950. By Mitali P. Wong and Zia Hasan. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2004. ix, 142 pp. Paper, $35.00. The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American...

... Press. 2010. 305 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00. Unfastened: Globality and Asian North American Narratives . By Eleanor Ty. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2010. xxxvii, 175 pp. Paper, $22.50. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Book Reviews Pen of Iron: American Prose...

...: Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth-Century American Litera- ture. By Glenn Hendler. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2001. x, 275 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $18.95. Glenn Hendler, who co-edited and contributed to Sentimental Men: Mascu- linity and the Politics of Affect (1999), has written...

...Kathleen Diffley By Alice Fahs. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2001. xi, 410 pp. $39.95. 2003 Reviews The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861–1865.By 6986 AMERICAN LITERATURE...

... that North Americans assume responsibility for, but know little about’’ (16)—but even to the very writers whose nationalist ‘‘forgetting’’ is critiqued (2, 162). Thus, Barlow is given ‘‘credit’’ for overcoming racist tele...

...Jennifer Rae Greeson Duke University Press 2001 Jennifer Rae The ‘‘Mysteries and Miseries’’ of North Carolina: Greeson New York City, Urban Gothic Fiction, and Incidents in the Life...

... and Afghanistan “Indian Country.” Elliott encourages us “to consider how the ‘Indian Country’ abroad might be linked to the Indian Country of the North American Plains—and what those ties might mean for both the tribal populations of the United States and the reach of American power across the globe” (281...

... of the North American Borderlands . By Gunn Robert Lawrence . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2015 . xiii, 241 pp. Cloth , $89.00 ; paper, $28.00 ; e-book available. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 These texts explore the functions of language in colonial and postcolonial...

.... of Nebraska Press. 2003. x, 233 pp. $50.00. Gambling and Survival in Native North America. By Paul Pasquaretta. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press. 2003. xviii, 202 pp. $40.00. Toward a Native American Critical Theory attempts a thorough interroga- tion of the critical works of Paula Gunn Allen, Craig...

... . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . 2018 . xiii, 229 pp. Cloth, $90.00 ; paper, $29.95 ; e-book, $22.99 . Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation . By Sarah Rivett . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2017 . 400 pp. Cloth, $41.95 ; paper...

...Jeff Westover Poetry Matters: Neoliberalism, Affect, and the Posthuman in Twenty-First Century North American Feminist Poetics . By Heather Milne . Iowa City : Univ. of Iowa Press . 2018 . viii, 280 pp. Paper, $80.00 ; e-book, $80.00 . Forms of a World: Contemporary Poetry...

.... On Sympathetic Grounds: Race, Gender, and Affective Geographies in Nineteenth-Century North America . By Naomi Greyser . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2018 . xi, 258 pp. Cloth, $69.00 ; paper, $34.95 ; e-book available. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 The spatial imagination...

...Christopher B. Patterson Abstract This paper argues that video games expose the presumptions separating “Asian America” and “Asia” in the traditional senses of isolation, origination, and presumed distance. It does so by focusing on the most “Asiatic” genre of video games today, the North American...

... ethnic writing is presumed to facilitate. Howe's novel is a plea for alternative ways of apprehending difference in contemporary North America, whether we attempt it through reading literature or through other private or public activities. By redefining the interpretive ground of contemporary reading...

... in the US North and Europe, offer an incisive transatlantic critique of the religious roots of American exceptionalism by attacking American Protestantism and the growing mythology of the nation’s Puritan origins. Douglass’s early speeches undercut the celebration of Puritan ancestry by Daniel Webster...

...Alberto Varon Abstract This essay examines the figure of the vanishing male in a trio of novels—Cristina Rivera Garza’s La muerte me da , Luis Alberto Urrea’s Into the Beautiful North , and James Cañon’s Tales from the Town of Widows —whose circa-2007 publication speaks to the fifteen-year legacy...

..., in particular as they stage economic tensions between the North and the South. On the one hand, the Jew as depicted in this work embodies the threat of Northern capitalism, which many in the South viewed as an overwhelmingly powerful force. On the other hand, the Jew of these novels acts as a figure...

... as a major literary figure who made immense contributions to reflections on hybrid North American identity. In the appreciation of Kerouac by Quebec novelist and critic Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, the author shows that early critical dismissals of Kerouac in the United States were closely connected...

...Chadwick Allen Allison Hedge Coke's remarkable sequence of two narrative and sixty-four persona poems, Blood Run , gives voice to the traditions of Indigenous North American mound-building cultures and, most strikingly, to Indigenous earthworks themselves. Central to this project is the poet's...

... (1967) mounts a fierce critique of objectivity, instrumental to the conduct of the war, Hanoi (1968) forgoes journalistic convention altogether in favor of a subjective account of McCarthy’s difficult experience in North Vietnam. Taken together, these volumes chart a course from detached commentary...