...Robert F. Reid-Pharr In a reading of Samuel R. Delany's underexamined 1984 science fiction novel, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand , Reid-Pharr uses the work of theorists such as Leo Bersani, Mary Douglas, Orlando Patterson, and Hortense Spillers to question the necessity of gay men's...

...Colbey Emmerson Reid © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Glamour in Six Dimensions: Modernism and the Radiance of Form . By Judith Brown. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2009. xiv, 199 pp. $39.95. Hollywood Ambitions: Celebrity in the Movie Age . By Marsha Orgeron...

...Colbey Emmerson Reid © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Interventions into Modernist Cultures: Poetry from beyond the Empty Screen . By Amie Elizabeth Parry. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2007. x, 188 pp. Cloth, $79.95; paper, $22.95. Race, Nationalism, and the State in...

...Colbey Emmerson Reid © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Ashes Taken for Fire: Aesthetic Modernism and the Critique of Identity . By Kevin Bell. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2007. x, 252 pp. Cloth, $67.50; paper, $22.50. Modernism on File: Writers, Artists, and the...

...Colbey Emmerson Reid Writing Celebrity: Stein, Fitzgerald, and the Modern(ist) Art of Self-Fashioning . By Galow Timothy W. . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . 2011 . xv , 235 pp. $85.00 . Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity . By Goldman Jonathan . Austin : Univ. of...

...Robert Reid-Pharr By Siobhan B. Somerville. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2000. xi, 259 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $17.95. 2001 Book Reviews 439 It is fair to wonder to...

...Robert Reid-Pharr By Leonard Cassuto. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 1997. xix, 289 pp. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $17.50. 2000 Reviews 6059 American Literature 72:2 / sheet 179 of223 Providence Tales and the Birth of American Literature. By James D. Hartman...

...Mark A. Reid Ed. Phyllis R. Klotman and Janet K. Cutler. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press. 2000. xxxiii, 483 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $24.95. 2000 894 American Literature tive actress and spoken-word artist. Their...

...Candice Jenkins By Thomas Cooley. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2001. xxvi, 302 pp. $34.95. By Robert F. Reid-Pharr. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1999. xi, 166 pp.$35.00. 2003 Book Reviews...

...Gary Edward Holcomb Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique . By Robert F. Reid-Pharr . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2016 . xiii, 257 pp. Cloth, $89.00 ; paper, $28.00 ; e-book available. Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation...

... Reviews 187 ticular interest is a point to which he returns in several other instances: the frequent incompatibility of the ‘‘desiring’’ black body and the black domestic sphere. As Reid-Pharr points out, the...

..., 302 pp. $34.95. Conjugal Union: The Body, the House, and the Black American. By Robert F. Reid- Pharr. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1999. xi, 166 pp. $35.00. In quite...

... be forthcoming from both Somerville and the many scholars who will find themselves challenged by this exciting new book. Robert Reid-Pharr, Johns Hopkins University 6363 AMERICAN LITERATURE 73:2 / sheet 214 of 232...

.... Reid, University of Florida-Gainesville Hitchcock’s America. Ed. Jonathan Freedman and Richard Millington. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1999. viii, 192 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $17.95. It is difficult to...

... Philosophical Pragmatism, 208–10. Reid-­Pharr, Robert F. “Clean: Death and Desire in Samuel R. Delany’s Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand,” 389–411. Rifkin, Mark. Review: Lyons, X-­Marks: Native Signatures of Assent, 449–51. Review: O’Brien, Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence...

... superhero generates new affective bonds that correspond to emerging “cosmopolitan networks of kinship and affiliation” nicely complements Higgins’s exploration of cosmopolitan ethics. For Robert Reid-­Pharr, such affective fashionings mandate a con- scious engagement with the exclusions of...

...- solution of particulars. Manning demonstrates, through readings of Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature and its respondents (including, most significantly, Thomas Reid), how languages of politics, selfhood, and grammar drew upon...

... Ostrowski. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2004. x, 261 pp. $39.95. Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form: Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century America . By Margaret Reid. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2004. xxxii, 259 pp. Cloth, $69.95; paper, $22.95. Book Reviews Black and White...

... “blackness is queer” (10), he is not only saying, like Saidiya Hartman ( 1997 ), Robert Reid-Pharr ( 1999 ), and Hortense Spillers ( 1987 ) before him, that blackness is linked with sexual transgression through the history of racist spectacle but that blackness has an erotic subversiveness through which...