.... Emerson’s life, once read as the story of a radical idealist’s growth toward serene confidence in history as progress, was retold as a decline into cosmic Whiggery. This last has been the conventional wisdom for some time. Three books have now appeared on the two-hundredth anniversary of Emerson’s birth...

... witness to the complexity of O’Connor’s aesthetics and should initiate new 6815 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:1 / sheet 200 of 252 scholarship on her work. Catherine Cucinella, California State University, San Marcos Writing the Radical...

... that end. Eric Ashley Hairston, North Carolina State University The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race.By John Stauffer. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2002. 367 pp. $29.95...

...Caleb Smith Duke University Press 2007 Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime . By Dylan Rodriguez. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2006. 322 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95. Fitting Sentences: Identity in Nineteenth...

... is that the objections one might raise to it are already rebuffed by the final page. Why, for instance, focus on the case studies that Hungerford chooses? Well, the text asks back, why do we focus on anything? The “refusal to read . . . is not radical,” as Hungerford notes, “it is normal” (162). It is what we all do...

...Mary Helen Washington Red Scare Racism and Cold War Black Radicalism . By Ziegler James . Jackson : Univ. Press of Mississippi . 2015 . xxii, 229 pp. Cloth , $65.00 ; paper, $30.00 . Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism . By Avilez GerShun . Urbana : Univ...

...Eric A. Wolfe Duke University Press 2006 Eric A. Ventriloquizing Nation: Wolfe Voice, Identity, and Radical Democracy in Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like...

...Shirley Samuels Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing . By Beam Dorri . New York : Cambridge Univ. Press . 2010 . 260 , viii pp. $85.00 . Radical Spiritual Motherhood: Autobiography and Empowerment in Nineteenth-Century African American Women...

...Samantha Pinto Radical Sensations: World Movements, Violence, and Visual Culture . By Streeby Shelley . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2013 . xxii , 328 pp. Cloth , $94.95 ; paper , $25.95 ; e-book , $25.95 . Humanitarian Violence: The US Deployment of Diversity...

... in US Mexicana and Chicana Literature and Art . By McMahon Marci R. . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers Univ. Press . 2013 . xvi , 239 pp. Cloth , $85.00 ; paper , $25.95 . Radical Chicana Poetics . By Pérez Ricardo F. Vivancos . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . 2013 . xxiv , 224...

...Jennifer Glaser Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form . By Chute Hillary L. . Cambridge : Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press . 2016 . 359 pp. Cloth , $35.00 ; e-book, $35.00 . The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics...

...Cheryl Higashida Duke University Press 2003 Cheryl Aunt Sue’s Children: Re-viewing the Gender(ed) Higashida Politics of Richard Wright’s Radicalism 6849 AMERICAN LITERATURE 75:2 / sheet 153 of 246 In American Hunger...

...Cynthia Wu Activism and the American Novel: Religion and Resistance in Fiction by Women of Color . By Romero Channette . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2012 . viii , 217 pp. Cloth , $55.00 ; paper , $22.50 . Guerrillas in the Industrial Jungle: Radicalism’s...

..., Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity . By Anne Garland Mahler . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2018 . xi, 347 pp. Cloth, $104.95 ; paper, $28.95 ; e-book available. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Recent decades have witnessed an efflorescence of Americanist...

... in the metadialectic space between Hegel’s Absolute and Hegel’s “Africa” (128). If Hegel’s “Africa” is cut off from his Absolute, and mired in particularity, nonideality, and materiality, Hickman argues, My Bondage radically potentiates that (otherwise abject) positioning in the service of generating a thought...

... . Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination . Boston : Beacon Press . Marcuse Herbert . 1964 . One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society . Boston : Beacon Press . Mingus Charles . 1991 . Beneath the Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus...

..., constitute a radical love that requires a radical language, so radical, in fact, that silence is often portrayed as the most rebellious of all forms of communication. In her readings of the two texts, then, Dill analyzes how silence in aberrant scenes of romance articulates an unspoken and unspeakable...

... of the peaceable transformation of society in order to recuperate the reputation of the radical Equal Rights Democrats, or “Locofocos,” after the 1837 New York Flour Riot. At the same time, however, Forrest’s performance was “ghosted” by the blood-stained rebels he had portrayed on stage, especially Spartacus...

...Sonnet Retman In this essay, Retman explores Sterling Brown’s radical use of signifying ethnography in his posthumous collection A Negro Looks at the South (2007), a work of mostly unpublished essays written in the early 1940s when Brown journeyed as a participant observer to take stock of African...

...Julius B. Fleming, Jr. Abstract This essay examines the cultural and political work of the Free Southern Theater, specifically how this company used plantations, porches, and cotton fields in order to build a radical black southern theater in the civil rights movement. Staging plays like Samuel...