..., 313 pp. $44.95. Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South.ByTara McPherson. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. xii, 318 pp. Paper, $21.95. These three books provide further investigations in the ongoing effort to address what W. E. B. DuBois described...

... Institutional Individualism: Conversion, Exile, and Nostalgia in Puritan New En- gland. By Michael W. Kaufmann. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan Univ. Press; Han- over, N.H.: University Press of New England. 1998. ix, 155 pp. Cloth, $35.00...

... View. By Camille Roman. New York: Pal- grave. 2001. v, 173 pp. $45.00. Home Matters: Longing and Belonging, Nostalgia and Mourning in Women’s Fic- tion. By Roberta Rubenstein. New York: Palgrave. 2001. viii...

... the history of a more just, inclusive world to come. For Funchion, these absences at the core of national belonging are central to nostalgia’s affective power to structure communal desires. Where most studies of national belonging have focused on the racialized and gendered contents of national feeling...

... LITERATURE / 75:3 / sheet 87 of 209 Willa Cather’s relationship to the American past is discussed more often in terms of her nostalgia than her historicism.1 But while nostalgia is a powerful force in Cather’s novels, we must...

... was produced in rhe- torical terms, but also that Catholicism affected habits of reading and writing in the United States during this period. Reclaiming Nostalgia: Longing for Nature in American Literature. By Jennifer K. Ladino. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2012. xiv, 274 pp. Cloth...

...: “September 11, 1973, may have chosen Bolaño, but the nostalgia for ‘revolution’ that ‘flashes up’ in his poetry balances his disgust for the exilic nostalgia produced by its failure” (95) (note the sentence-level dialectical play) while North American Espada must, in his response to the event, “borrow...

...Shelley Streeby Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia . By Cremins Brian . Jackson : Univ. Press of Mississippi . 2016 . xiv, 203 pp. Cloth , $65.00 . Frank Miller’s Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism . By Young Paul . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers Univ. Press . 2016...

... in an entanglement of pursuit and avoidance, desiring an objectified other to fulfill their needs but retreating into nostalgia when the other asserts agency. In some cases, however, the potentially threatening encounter...

... the hoary nostalgia of the Revolutionary War veterans or the proud patriotism of the flying flag. The pleasures of the past are here more complicated, threatening to overwhelm Hawthorne at the same moment that they compel him to engage in storytelling. In Haw- thorne we find a precursor of other...

... Caribbean? Through an examination of the relationship of black feminist litera- ture to Reagan’s neoliberal nostalgia for a lost free Caribbean, I sug- gest that US black feminism’s matriarchal myths of reclaiming the Caribbean participated in the transition to neoliberal capitalism, creat- ing...

... think about but also feel the outrage of persecuting innocence” (90). 8 Thus passions are awakened and paradoxically soothed by the familiar pleasures of ritualized racial melodrama, encouraging a simultaneous yearning for progress and nostalgia for the past that Blackford identifies...

... for whom he or she feels childhood nostalgia, and diminishing narrative contact with the outside world. Kingdom Come offers three potential solutions to this problem and rejects two of them. First, Superman and his first-­generation allies impose a code of conduct on the throng of new heroes...

... (located south of the U.S.-Mexico border and within the United States as well) for northern U.S. readers. Waking Up from Neocolonial Nostalgia Sleep of the Innocents traces Rosario...

... in favor of a simplistic narrative of nostalgia, apostasy, or fortunate fall. This book has profound implications not only for the contemporary debates about culture but for the definition of U.S. modernism, as it treats as explicitly...

... in favor of a simplistic narrative of nostalgia, apostasy, or fortunate fall. This book has profound implications not only for the contemporary debates about culture but for the definition of U.S. modernism, as it treats as explicitly...

... in their relationship to the South an attitude preva- lent in the United States during the modern period: a willingness to be entranced by a romantic vision of Southern history. In particular, Rosa’s ahistorical romanticizing of the Civil War resembles that of other Americans, including Northerners. This nostalgia...

... provocative argument that Hurston creates “a discourse of nostalgia” for Southern, black, rural folk life.3 Pointing to a “shift in Hurston’s work” between Mules and Men (1935) and Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica American Literature, Volume 79, Number 4, December 2007 DOI...

... an urban experience evokes memories of tropical breezes, at first seems to underscore the prevalent critical contention that McKay’s “Harlem” sonnets represent Jamaica as an idealized, pastoral landscape.33 But the representation of natural phe- nomena in the poem ironizes that nostalgia. Far...

... Book Reviews 901 book echoes some familiar ecocritical pieties, such as nostalgia for a lost unity with nature destroyed by Enlightenment reason. It could also be argued that Rasula’s analogy between ecology and poetry naively disregards fundamental differences between natural systems...