...Sean Metzger Duke University Press 2007 The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity . By Brenda Murphy. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2005. xix, 282 pp. $85.00. Avant-Garde Performance and the Limits of Criticism: Approaching the Living Theatre, Happenings...

...Jed Rasula © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Cinematic Modernism: Modernist Poetry and Film . By Susan McCabe. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2005. x, 284 pp. Cloth, $92.00; paper, $39.99. Voicing American Poetry: Sound and Performance from the 1920s...

...Lee Schweninger © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Art as Performance, Story as Criticism: Reflections on Native Literary Aesthetics . By Craig S. Womack. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 2009. 406 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $24.95. We Will Dance Our Truth: Yaqui History...

...Mark Scroggins Thick and Dazzling Darkness: Religious Poetry in a Secular Age . By Peter O’Leary . New York : Columbia Univ. Press . 2017 . xiii, 260 pp. Cloth, $60.00 ; e-book, $59.99 . The Art of Confession: The Performance of Self from Robert Lowell to Reality TV...

...Lucia Hodgson Risk Culture: Performance and Danger in Early America . By Fichtelberg Joseph . Ann Arbor : Univ. of Michigan Press . 2010 . x, 254 pp. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $28.95 . Suffering Childhood in Early America: Violence, Race, and the Making of the Child Victim...

...Sean Metzger Racial Imperatives: Discipline, Performativity, and Struggles against Subjection . By Ehlers Nadine . Bloomington : Indiana Univ. Press . 2012 . x , 185 pp. Cloth , $70.00 ; paper , $25.00 . American Poetry in Performance: From Walt Whitman to Hip Hop...

...Brooke Horvath Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry . By Peter Middleton. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2005. xviii, 241 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $29.95. Syncopations: The Stress of Innovation in Contemporary American Poetry . By Jed...

...” (1957) and the nonfiction novel In Cold Blood (1965), I argue that Capote’s most enduring text is his celebrity—an embodied serial that may be read as the performance of his unfinished masterpiece Answered Prayers . Capote as the celebrity-author models a site where narrative identities are rendered...

... history and performance into relief (16). Each chapter features two paired works of drama, film, or literature actively concerned with the theatrical. In pairings ranging from early twentieth-century plays such as The Yellow Jacket (1912) and Our Town (1938) to more contemporary productions...

...Patricia Ybarra © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Gender and Allegory in Transamerican Fiction and Performance . By Katherine Sugg. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2008. xviii, 241 pp. $74.95. Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics . By Richard T. Rodríguez...

... Emerson’s considerable activity as a lyceum lecturer or his forays into more overtly political oratory for the abolition movement. Warren’s comments on practice are often limited to ob- servations about stylistic performance—how these writers’ pronouncements on eloquence are often penned in a style...

...Habiba Ibrahim Real Folks: Race and Genre in the Great Depression . By Retman Sonnet . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2011 . ix , 322 pp. Cloth , $89.95 ; paper, $24.95 . Darkening Mirrors: Imperial Representation in Depression-Era African American Performance...

..., Chicago Review , and Rain Taxi , his poetry has been published in Fence and Boulevard. He is the author of the chapbook Southern Colortype . Bodies on the Line: Performance and the Sixties Poetry Reading . By Allison Raphael . Iowa City : Univ. of Iowa Press . 2014 . xvii , 250 pp...

..., 234 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.95. Professing Performance: Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity. By Shannon Jackson. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2004. xi, 254 pp. Cloth, $55; paper, $24.00. By his own admission, Savran’s collection of nine essays, written over...

... James Nagel. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2001. xi, 297 pp. $49.95. Stages of Life: Transcultural Performance and Identity in U.S. Latina Theater.By Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez and Nancy Saporta Sternbach. Tucson: Univ...

.... Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the Place of American Poetry, 1865-1917 . By Angela Sorby. Hanover, N.H.: Univ. Press of New England. 2005. xlv, 232 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $24.95. Book Reviews New England’s Crises and Cultural Memory: Literature, Politics, History, Religion, 1620...

... visual novel, which offers a counterdiscourse to normative modes of play and attempts to offer utopic spaces to reflect upon the “real” genres of race and neo–Cold War geopolitics. Using theories of performance from Dorinne Kondo and others, the author shows how queer indie visual novels are primarily...

... and Performance . By Sarita Echavez See. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2009. xxxiv, 210 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00. Book Reviews National History and the World of Nations: Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of His- tory in Japan, France, and the United States. By Christopher L. Hill. Durham...

...Josephine Lee © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Culture Makers: Urban Performance and Literature in the 1920s. By Amy Koritz. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2009. x, 200 pp. $40.00. The Immigrant Scene: Ethnic Amusements in New York, 1880–1920 . By Sabine Haenni...

...Arthur Knight © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 The American Play: 1787–2000. By Marc Robinson. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 2009. x, 405 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $28.00. The Scene of the Harlem Cabaret: Race, Sexuality, Performance. By Shane Vogel. Chicago: Univ...