...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...

... and supersedes that mid-century European moment. Why Black existentialisms, and why now? Our current literary, cultural, and performance studies rarely take existentialism as a still productive or urgent philosophical project. At best, it is viewed as a museum piece, an interesting historical moment...

..., 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...

.... 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...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

... Armor, Adams interrogates the notion that performance in war defines masculinity, that war makes men. Instead, war and its cultural expec- tations undermine the soldier’s ability to reintegrate into civilian society once war is over. Beginning with examples of soldiers from Operation Iraqi...

... to offer in terms of new thinking about poetry and poetics. Geoffrey Jacques, York College, City University of New York DOI 10.1215/00029831-2010-053 Book Reviews 851 Gender and Allegory in Transamerican Fiction and Performance...

... to offer in terms of new thinking about poetry and poetics. Geoffrey Jacques, York College, City University of New York DOI 10.1215/00029831-2010-053 Book Reviews 851 Gender and Allegory in Transamerican Fiction and Performance...

... by positioning verbal, visual, material, and performative cultures at the center of U.S. nation build- ing and examining the peculiar purchase on the language of democratic power that process entailed. In doing so, they scuttle the belief that cultural produc- tion merely reflects a more relevant...

... 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...

... © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Godly Letters: The Literature of the American Puritans . By Michael J. Colacurcio. Notre Dame, Ind.: Univ. of Notre Dame Press. 2006. xix, 650 pp. $50.00. Early American Women Critics: Performance, Religion, Race . By Gay Gibson Cima. New...

...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...

..., 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...

... performances attached to Asian American sensibility approaches Ju Yon Kim’s concerns in The Racial Mundane . In this beautifully composed study, Kim brings the rich insights of performance studies to bear on these interconnected processes. The theoretical vocabulary that has developed in this field to account...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Eden Osucha Duke University Press 2006 Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism . By Madhu Dubey. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2003. ix, 284 pp. Paper, $22.00. Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity . By E. Patrick Johnson. Durham, N.C...