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American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 184–186.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Ellen Weinauer Duke University Press 2007 Writing Revolution: Aesthetics and Politics in Hawthorne, Whitman, and Thoreau . By Peter J. Bellis. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2003. vii, 221 pp. $ 39.95. Our Common Dwelling: Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 219–222.
Published: 01 March 2007
... . By James Phelan. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2005. xiv, 236 pp. Cloth, $45; paper, $19.95. FDR's Body Politics: The Rhetoric of Disability . By Davis W. Houck and Amos Kiewe. College Station: Texas A & M Univ. Press. 2003. xii, 141 pp. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $14.95. Defining...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 593–596.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Evie Shockley Spectacular Blackness: The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic . By Ongiri Amy Abugo . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2010 . x, 223 pp. Cloth , $55.00 ; paper , $22.50 . Specters of Democracy...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 842–843.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Jeff Allred © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Intelligence Work: The Politics of American Documentary . By Jonathan Kahana. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2008. xiii, 436 pp. Cloth, $90.00; paper, $29.00. Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers: Culture and Politics...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 882–883.
Published: 01 December 2003
...Michael Hames-García By Miguel R. López. College Station: Texas A & M Univ. Press. 2001. xi, 199 pp. $37.95. 2003 882 American Literature Chicano Timespace: The Poetry and Politics of Ricardo Sánchez. By Miguel R...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 221–246.
Published: 01 June 2004
...Caroline Levander Duke University Press 2004 Caroline ‘‘Let Her White Progeny Offset Her Levander Dark One The Child and the Racial Politics of Nation Making In his famous critique of slavery, Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes (1754...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 307–337.
Published: 01 June 2004
...Julie Prebel Duke University Press 2004 Julie Engineering Womanhood: The Politics of Prebel Rejuvenation in Gertrude Atherton’s Black Oxen Wecannotperformthecomic opera bouffe of trans- mutinganoldhagintoagiddyyoungdamselBut,under...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 189–191.
Published: 01 March 2004
...- struction, globalization, the political economy of empire. Brady’s approach to Chicana literature proposes that space is central to understanding how Chi- canas and Chicanos are affected by spatial change (such as the militarization of the U.S.–Mexico border) and are, also, the laborers of that change...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 899–901.
Published: 01 December 2003
... Book Reviews 899 Language Shift among the Navajos: Identity Politics and Cultural Continuity.By Deborah House. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press. 2002. xxvii, 122 pp. $35.00. A Forest of Time: American...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 400–402.
Published: 01 June 2004
... anniversary of Emerson’s birth, all solidly historicist and all meant to recuper- ate his radicalism while facing its limits. Together, they add up to an important reassessment of Emerson’s cultural politics based on dialectical synthesis of the polarized critical positions that have gone before. Laura...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 610–612.
Published: 01 September 2004
...- chic political culture can be found at work in key revolutionary ideas and con- structs’’ (5) by reading the works of Crèvecoeur, Brockden Brown, and Irving. Though Downes shares part of his textual corpus with Bloch (most notably Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography), their studies differ...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 749–775.
Published: 01 December 2004
...Heather Roberts Duke University Press 2004 Heather ‘‘The Public Heart Urban Life and the Roberts Politics of Sympathy in Lydia Maria Child’s Letters from New York In 1841, the renowned novelist and social reformer Lydia Maria Child elected...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 33–63.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Victoria Olwell Duke University press 2005 Victoria ‘‘It Spoke Itself Women’s Genius Olwell and Eccentric Politics In 1900, lyceum organizer J. B. Pond collected his memories of prominent lecturers under the title Eccentricities of Ge- nius: Memories...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 181–183.
Published: 01 March 2005
... citizenship. In the face of such resilience, it is nevertheless good to have arguments as dis- ruptive as Kazanjian’s and as patient as Samet’s. Russ Castronovo, University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Indian Nations: Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827–1863. By Maureen Konkle...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 194–196.
Published: 01 March 2005
... Faulkner and the Politics of Reading. By Karl F. Zender. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2002. xviii, 179 pp. $29.95. Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner’s ‘‘Go Down, Moses By Thadious M. Davis. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. xi, 339 pp. Cloth, $64.95; paper, $21.95...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 200–202.
Published: 01 March 2005
... provide detailed his- tory, genealogy (a favorite term of hers), and taxonomy, and a very few useful analyses. Peter Hays, University of California, Davis From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, 1749–1826. By Thomas Hallock. Chapel...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 541–561.
Published: 01 September 2005
...Laura Arnold Leibman Duke University Press 2005 Laura A Bridge of Difference: Arnold Sherman Alexie and the Politics of Mourning Leibman In Sherman Alexie’s fourth poetry collection, The Summer of Black Widows (1996), the ‘‘abandoned uranium mine...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 646–648.
Published: 01 September 2005
... Philadelphia, although that culture extended well into the nineteenth century. But even more, the author is remembering the lives of these remarkable women, who saw the emergence of political, mythological, literary America formed primarily by male writers in the public sphere. These women—especially...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 729–760.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Ian Finseth © 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Ian Evolution, Cosmopolitanism, and Finseth Emerson’s Antislavery Politics His twenty-year struggle against slavery trans- formed Ralph Waldo Emerson, entailing a thoroughgoing reassess- ment...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 858–861.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Yoonmee Chang 2005 Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech . By Patti Duncan. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2004. xvi, 274 pp. $34.95; Crossing Cultures: Creating Identity in Chinese and Jewish American Literature .By Judith Oster. Columbia...