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From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, 1749-1826; Surveying the Interior: Literary Cartographers and the Sense of Place

Barbara Ryan

American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 200–202.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-1-200

Published: 01 March 2005

...Barbara Ryan By Thomas Hallock. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2003. xix,289 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.95. By Rick Van Noy. Reno: Univ. of Nevada Press. 2003. xxii, 220 pp. Cloth,$44.95; paper, $21.95. 2005 200 American Literature constative statement but can be...

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Unsettling the Literary West: Authenticity and Authorship; In the Work of Their Hands Is Their Prayer: Cultural Narrative and Redemption on the American Frontiers, 1830-1930

Blake Allmendinger

American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 202–203.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-1-202

Published: 01 March 2005

... see as what Leo Marx would call the machine in the garden. Yet Van Noy’s real inter- est lies in trying to evoke, rather than historicize or put into cultural context, the awe, uncertainty, fear, glory, and frustration his subjects tried to share. For this reason, Surveying the Interior will...

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A Queer Sort of Materialism: Recontextualizing American Theater; Professing Performance: Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity

Peter Hays

American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 198–200.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-1-198

Published: 01 March 2005

... Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2003. xix, 289 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.95. Surveying the Interior: Literary Cartographers and the Sense of Place.ByRickVan Noy. Reno: Univ. of Nevada Press. 2003. xxii, 220 pp. Cloth, $44.95; paper, $21.95. Shared interests in space, place, and mapping...

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The Vernacular Sonnet and the Resurgence of Afro-Modernism in the 1940s

Timo Müller

American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 253–273.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2886115

Published: 01 June 2015

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“A Foul Lump Started Making Promises in My Voice”: Race, Affect, and the Animated Subject

Sianne Ngai

American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 571–601.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-3-571

Published: 01 September 2002

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Harriet Jacobs among the Militants: Transformations in Abolition’s Public Sphere, 1859–61

Caleb Smith

American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 743–768.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1901427

Published: 01 December 2012

... with equal care to the performative force of its invocation. Warning against the destructive tendencies of higher law, the Illi26 - nois minister J. M. Peck attacked its adherents not only on substance but also on “style”: “What a catalogue of fanaticism, insubordination, criminality, and folly...

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Slippery Language and False Dilemmas: The Passing Novels of Child, Howells, and Harper

Julie Cary Nerad

American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 813–841.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-4-813

Published: 01 December 2003

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Sono-Montage: Langston Hughes and Tony Schwartz Listen to Postwar New York

Lisa Hollenbach

American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 275–302.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2886127

Published: 01 June 2015

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Head and Hands Together: Booker T. Washington's Vocational Realism

Laura R. Fisher

American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 709–737.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3329566

Published: 01 December 2015

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Hughes/Olson: Whose Music? Whose Era?

Benjamin R. Lempert

American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 303–330.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2886139

Published: 01 June 2015

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The Paris Paradox: Colorblindness and Colonialism in African American Expatriate Fiction

Laila Amine

American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 739–768.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3329578

Published: 01 December 2015

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National History and the World of Nations: Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of History in Japan, France, and the United States; Popular History and the Literary Marketplace, 1840–1920

Keith Byerman

American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 835–837.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-047

Published: 01 December 2010

...- nois, as hometowns. The project undertaken by Hodges in Soon Come could stand as a com- panion to Wilson’s discussion. In a study that seeks to illuminate Jamaican poetics by talking about how history, religion, and the island’s cultures of resistance against slavery and...

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Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture; Manifesting America: The Imperial Construction of U.S. National Space

Virginia Kennedy

American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 837–839.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-048

Published: 01 December 2010

... more of this thread is brought home even more sharply today, as the first U.S. president of African descent claims both Honolulu, Hawaii, and Chicago, Illi- nois, as hometowns. The project undertaken by Hodges in Soon Come could stand as a com- panion to Wilson’s discussion. In a...

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Border Renaissance: The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Mexican American Literature; Mainland Passage: The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico

Richard T. Rodríguez

American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 839–841.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-049

Published: 01 December 2010

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Intelligence Work: The Politics of American Documentary; Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers: Culture and Politics of the Early Cold War

Jeff Allred

American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 842–843.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-050

Published: 01 December 2010

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The World in Which We Occur: John Dewey, Pragmatist Ecology, and American Ecological Writing in the Twentieth Century; Women Writing Nature: A Feminist View; The Impossible Land: Story and Place in California's Imperial Valley

Ursula K. Heise

American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 844–846.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-051

Published: 01 December 2010

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Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Film; From the Plantation to the Prison: African American Confinement in Literature

Michael Hames-García

American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 846–848.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-052

Published: 01 December 2010

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Be Always Converting, Be Always Converted: An American Poetics; Soon Come: Jamaican Spirituality, Jamaican Poetics

Geoffrey Jacques

American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 849–850.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-053

Published: 01 December 2010

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The Limbs of Empire: Ahab, Santa Anna, and Moby-Dick

Christopher Taylor

American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 29–57.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-062

Published: 01 March 2011

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Gender and Allegory in Transamerican Fiction and Performance; Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics

Patricia Ybarra

American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 851–853.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-054

Published: 01 December 2010

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From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, 1749-1826; Surveying the Interior: Literary Cartographers and the Sense of Place

Unsettling the Literary West: Authenticity and Authorship; In the Work of Their Hands Is Their Prayer: Cultural Narrative and Redemption on the American Frontiers, 1830-1930

A Queer Sort of Materialism: Recontextualizing American Theater; Professing Performance: Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity

The Vernacular Sonnet and the Resurgence of Afro-Modernism in the 1940s

“A Foul Lump Started Making Promises in My Voice”: Race, Affect, and the Animated Subject

Harriet Jacobs among the Militants: Transformations in Abolition’s Public Sphere, 1859–61

Slippery Language and False Dilemmas: The Passing Novels of Child, Howells, and Harper

Sono-Montage: Langston Hughes and Tony Schwartz Listen to Postwar New York

Head and Hands Together: Booker T. Washington's Vocational Realism

Hughes/Olson: Whose Music? Whose Era?

The Paris Paradox: Colorblindness and Colonialism in African American Expatriate Fiction

National History and the World of Nations: Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of History in Japan, France, and the United States; Popular History and the Literary Marketplace, 1840–1920

Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture; Manifesting America: The Imperial Construction of U.S. National Space

Border Renaissance: The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Mexican American Literature; Mainland Passage: The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico

Intelligence Work: The Politics of American Documentary; Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers: Culture and Politics of the Early Cold War

The World in Which We Occur: John Dewey, Pragmatist Ecology, and American Ecological Writing in the Twentieth Century; Women Writing Nature: A Feminist View; The Impossible Land: Story and Place in California's Imperial Valley

Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Film; From the Plantation to the Prison: African American Confinement in Literature

Be Always Converting, Be Always Converted: An American Poetics; Soon Come: Jamaican Spirituality, Jamaican Poetics

The Limbs of Empire: Ahab, Santa Anna, and Moby-Dick

Gender and Allegory in Transamerican Fiction and Performance; Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics

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