...Glenda R. Carpio Duke University Press 2005 Glenda R. Conjuring the Mysteries of Slavery: Carpio Voodoo, Fetishism, and Stereotype in Ishmael Reed’s Flight to Canada In a vibrant proliferation since the mid-1960s, fic- tional texts have...

...Brian M. Reed Duke University Press 2007 Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre: Bodies, Voices, Words . By Julia A. Walker. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2005. xii, 300 pp. $75.00. Ugly Feelings . By Sianne Ngai. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2005. 432 pp...

...Brian M. Reed Book Reviews Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer. By Michael A. Elliott. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2007. vii, 336 pp. $25.00. Speak Like Singing: Classics of Native American Literature. By Kenneth Lincoln. Albuquerque...

...Naomi C. Reed Duke University Press 2004 Naomi C. The Specter of Wall Street: ‘‘Bartleby, the Reed Scrivener’’ and the Language of Commodities Ere introducing the scrivener, as he first appeared to me writes the lawyer in Herman Melville’s ‘‘Bartleby, the...

...Brian M. Reed © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 A Change in the Weather: Modernist Imagination, African American Imaginary. By Geoffrey Jacques. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2009. x, 185 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $28.95. Rhythm and Race in Modernist Poetry and...

...Reed Way Dasenbrock The New Death: American Modernism and World War I . By James Pearl . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2013 . xii, 259 pp. Cloth , $59.50 ; paper, $29.50 ; e-book, $29.50 . The Politics of Irony in American Modernism . By Stratton Matthew...

...William Reed Quinn Abstract This essay examines how the editorial staff of the Crisis positioned readers as collaborators and literary activists. Looking at letters to the editor, I argue that readers helped reevaluate representations of blackness in American literary taste. These letters bridge...

... Christo- pher Castiglia and Christopher Reed. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2011. xvii, 294 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00. Writing the history of the queer past, in any of its manifold iterations, is no simple task. More challenging, however, than writing the history of what happened...

.../00029831-3329698 Hart Crane’s Poetry. By John T. Irwin. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2011. xiv, 424 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $34.95. Nobody’s Business: Twenty-First Century Avant-Garde Poetics. By Brian M. Reed. Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press. 2013. xix, 222 pp. $45.00. At the...

... considerhowformisnotextrinsictohistoricalunderstandingbutrather constitutive of it’’ (228). The particular demonstration Rushdy undertakes ex- poses the manner in which Ishmael Reed, Sherley Anne Williams, and Charles Johnson ‘‘collectively revisit the moment of...

... the genre. Rushdy, tracing separately the effects of the ideological shifts of the 1960s on the creative sensibilities of Reed, Williams, and Johnson, provides extended readings of Flight to Canada, Dessa Rose, Oxherding Tale, and Middle...

... understand the art of collaboration and ‘‘humaniz[es] one of modernism’s colossal voices ‘‘A Woman’s Place Women Writing New Mexico. By Maureen Reed. Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press. 2005. xi, 355 pp. Paper, $21.95. Reed’s collective biography of six women writers and activists explores the...

... and Reed bemoan the way that “de-generation” has pro- duced and reified a certain pessimism as the implicit affective standard for queer sexual and political life, Tomorrow’s Parties responds with an unapolo- getic optimism, reassuring readers that what appears lost or forgotten is still there...

...; Mia Bay, Department of History, Rutgers University, 16 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901; Jane Dailey, Johns Hopkins Univer- sity, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218; Christopher R. Reed, Graduate History Program, School of Liberal Studies, Roosevelt Univer- sity...

... constitutive of it’’ (228). The particular demonstration Rushdy undertakes ex- poses the manner in which Ishmael Reed, Sherley Anne Williams, and Charles Johnson ‘‘collectively revisit the moment of origin for the Neo-slave narrative Tseng...

...David Tomkins © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Hart Crane: After His Lights . By Brian M. Reed. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2006. x, 295 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $35.00. Frank O'Hara: The Poetics of Coterie . By Lytle Shaw. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2006. x...

... that defy theory, the academy, and history—and, with any luck, might topple the private terri- tories and traumas of American identity. Melanie R. Benson, University of Hartford DOI 10.1215/00029831-2008-009 Hart Crane: After His Lights. By Brian M. Reed. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of...

... identity. Melanie R. Benson, University of Hartford DOI 10.1215/00029831-2008-009 Hart Crane: After His Lights. By Brian M. Reed. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2006. x, 295 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $35.00. Frank O’Hara: The Poetics of Coterie. By Lytle Shaw. Iowa...

... identity. Melanie R. Benson, University of Hartford DOI 10.1215/00029831-2008-009 Hart Crane: After His Lights. By Brian M. Reed. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2006. x, 295 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $35.00. Frank O’Hara: The Poetics of Coterie. By Lytle Shaw. Iowa...