...Anne W. Gulick Duke University Press 2006 Anne W. We Are Not the People: Gulick The 1805 Haitian Constitution’s Challenge to Political Legibility in the Age of Revolution As the symbolic and pragmatic uses of Haiti change over...

... to modern subject formation to the revisionist US historiography of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries (6). The “people,” Sizemore maintains, have only ever been “in process,” and so it makes sense that her interpretive moves should prove so insistently in-between. She’s written American...

...Shari Huhndorf “That the People Might Live”: Loss and Renewal in Native American Elegy . By Krupat Arnold . Ithaca, NY : Cornell Univ. Press . 2012 . xii , 242 pp. $45.00 . Book Reviews Culture and Liberty in the Age of the American Revolution. By Michal Jan Rozbicki...

... Country: Ralph Ellison in America. By Horace Porter. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2001. 168 pp. $29.95. Spiritual, Blues, and Jazz People in African American Fiction: Living in Paradox. By A. Yemisi...

... Book Reviews White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies and Gentlemen of Colour: William Brown’s African and American Theater.By Marvin McAllister. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2003. x, 239 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $18.95. Theatre, Society...

...Hilary E. Wyss In Search of First Contact: The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery . By Kolodny Annette . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2012 . xvii , 426 pp. Cloth, $99.95 ; paper, $27.95 . That Dream Shall Have...

... of his people. More recently, critics have come to find in Apess a radical voice latching on to the power of the pulpit and the rhetoric of the abolitionist movement to argue for Native rights. In either case, Apess seems to have risen up from a kind of intellectual vacuum with no way of accounting...

...Sarah E. Chinn Abstract This article explores how thinking about the time of childhood through the lens of US slavery forces us to rethink both phenomena. According to many of the people who lived through it, enslaved childhood was a shifting, episodic phenomenon that had multiple points...

..., these figures function to perpetuate a phenomenon that the essay’s author terms the necropolitics of black exceptionalism, the paradox of justifying the violent oppression of the majority of black people by celebrating or censuring a single black figure. In exploring the absurd dimensions of these extreme...

...Stephen Joyce Abstract This paper examines the historiographic potential of video games with Assassin’s Creed III (2012) as a paradigmatic example that shows the aesthetic and political challenges games face in telling counterhistories of marginalized peoples. The article argues that Ubisoft’s...

...Katy Ryan Ryan's essay analyzes the coordination of the innocence argument and sentimentality in Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen's The Exonerated (2003), a documentary play based on interviews with people sentenced to die for crimes they did not commit. The play's composition, performance...

...” and were understood by the earliest readers to be the ancestors of Amerindian peoples, and the righteous “Nephites,” the fair-skinned narrators of The Book of Mormon . This essay shows how The Book of Mormon ’s foundational raci(al)ist orthodoxy autodeconstructs, and in so doing not only offers a vision...

... in the historiography of wartime culture. Cohen analyzes a series of contraband works: abolitionist poems by John Greenleaf Whittier; African American spirituals like “O Let My People Go”; minstrel songs like “Kingdom Coming”; and an assortment of anonymous poems published as broadsides and in periodicals...

... voices of children, slaves, and other marginalized people. Duane recovers and analyzes the records of the New York African Free School in the 1810s and 1820s, an archive that features the work of the first generation of black children to inherit freedom in New York City. She argues that the scripted...

... a decades-long struggle between the United States and the Sauks, as well as other native peoples in the western Great Lakes region, over how to conceptualize native landholding, diplomacy, and trade. The narrative explores the effects of reducing a complex regional matrix to a series of treaty-mediated...

..., arguing that liberty achieved its truest expression when free people mixed their labor with nature in the pursuit of self-reliance. Democratic access to arable land was a precondition of real emancipation, which required reversing capitalism's expropriation of the commons. Douglass fictionalized...

...” and “Good Country People,” have at their center amputated bodies, those of Tom T. Shiftlet and Hulga Hopewell respectively. Evans argues that those incomplete bodies are intended to contest the notion of “wholeness” as a spiritual or existential ideal. On the contrary, O'Connor's stories drive her...