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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 628–631.
Published: 01 September 2014
... Primitive and Industrial Rhetoric . By McTaggart Ursula . Albany : State Univ. of New York Press . 2012 . xii , 247 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper , $24.95 . Black Power, Yellow Power, and the Making of Revolutionary Identities . By Watkins Rychetta . Jackson : Univ. Press...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (4): 601–628.
Published: 01 December 2021
... to a popular, secular, feminist movement. Hopkins saw within New Thought the potential to empower female practitioners—to liberate them from financial dependence and mental isolation by presenting the suffering of the physical world as a mental obstacle to be overcome through the power of thought. This aim...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 194–196.
Published: 01 March 2007
... Slavery . By Carolyn Vellenga Berman. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2006. xi, 240 pp. $39.95. Speaking Power: Black Feminist Orality in Women's Narratives of Slavery . By DoVeanna S. Fulton. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2006. xvi, 164 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $17.95. Book...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 813–841.
Published: 01 December 2000
...Sharon Stockton Duke University Press 2000 Sharon Engineering Power: Hoover, Rand, Pound, Stockton and the Heroic Architect 6218 American Literature 72:4 / sheet 123 of238 History generally credits the United States...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 779–810.
Published: 01 December 2001
...Paul Giles Duke University Press 2002 Paul Narrative Reversals and Power Exchanges: Giles Frederick Douglass and British Culture Within the last thirty years, Frederick Douglass’s first two autobiographies—Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 439–441.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Kendall Johnson © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Red Land, Red Power: Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel . By Sean Kicummah Teuton. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2008. xvii, 294 pp. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95. Seeing Red: Anger, Sentimentality...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 203–205.
Published: 01 March 2011
... her own exclusion from traditional sources and sites of power within her reli- gious tradition” (87). For Elrod, Bailey offers an important alternative under- standing of simultaneous dissent and piety that Elrod interprets as “gendered and as biblically inspired as the other writers’ sense...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 456–458.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Stephanie LeMenager Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950–1963 . By Kevin Starr. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2009. xi, 564 pp. $34.95. Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature . By John Beck. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2009. 366 pp...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 821–824.
Published: 01 December 2013
... with the New Motive Power . By Modern John Lardas . Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press . 2011 . xxxiv, 313 pp . $40.00 . © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Book Reviews  821 develop the chapter’s weighty argument that “these writers...
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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 (2004) 76 (2): 394–396.
Published: 01 June 2004
... University, San Marcos 394 American Literature Critical Fictions: Sentiment and the American Market, 1780–1870. By Joseph Fich- telberg. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2003. x, 280 pp. $39.95. Identifying the Image of God: Radical Christians and Nonviolent Power in the Ante- bellum United States...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 707–738.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Elizabeth Dill In “That Damned Mob of Scribbling Siblings: The American Romance as Anti-Novel in The Power of Sympathy and Pierre ,” Elizabeth Dill discusses the eruption of genre chaos in early and mid-nineteenth century American works of fiction. In order to do so, she considers the connections...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 203–205.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Candice M. Jenkins © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Breaking the Silence: Toward a Black Male Feminist Criticism . By David Ikard. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2007. xiv, 191 pp. $35.00. Our Living Manhood: Literature, Black Power, and Masculine Ideology...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 577–603.
Published: 01 September 2007
...Matt Bell Duke University Press 2007 Matt Black Ground, Gay Figure: Bell Working through Another Country, Black Power, and Gay Liberation In an essay that addresses James Baldwin’s recur- rent attention to the intricate...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 656–659.
Published: 01 September 2019
... . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2018 . xv, 288 pp. Cloth, $74.00 ; e-book available. Direct Democracy: Collective Power, the Swarm, and the Literatures of the Americas . By Scott Henkel . Jackson : Univ. Press of Mississippi . 2017 . xii, 224 pp. Cloth, $65.00 ; paper, $35.00...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 663–665.
Published: 01 September 2019
...La Donna L. Forsgren Black Power TV . By Devorah Heitner . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2013 . xiii, 190 pp. Cloth, $89.95 ; paper, $23.95 ; e-book, $22.95 . Race News: Black Journalists and the Fight for Racial Justice in the Twentieth Century . By Fred Carroll...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 645–647.
Published: 01 September 2006
...-Restraint . By Kirstin Hotelling Zona. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2002. xi, 187 pp. $55.00. Of Women, Poetry, and Power: Strategies of Address in Dickinson, Miles, Brooks, Lorde, and Angelou . By Zofia Burr. Champaign: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2002. xii, 232 pp. $39.95. Book Reviews...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 450–452.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Suzanne Schneider Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination . By Scott Darieck . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2010 . x, 317 pp. Cloth , $49.00 ; paper , $22.00 . Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 887–889.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Alan Wald Troublemakers: Power, Representation, and the Fiction of the Mass Worker . By Scott William . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers Univ. Press . 2012 . x , 284 pp. Cloth , $72.00 ; paper , $24.95 . American Socialist Triptych: The Literary-Political Work of Charlotte Perkins...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 641–644.
Published: 01 September 2016
... theorization of biopower than in his call for new technologies of the self and in more nuanced understandings of how power is felt in the body. Like Weheliye, Musser begins not with the politicized body but with a sensate flesh marked by gender and especially race. There are several points of convergence...