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...Hugh Egan © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Melville: The Making of the Poet . By Hershel Parker. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern Univ. Press. 2008. x, 238 pp. $32.95. Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville: Essays in Relation . Ed. Robert S. Levine and Samuel Otter. Chapel...

...Paula Rabinowitz © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Working Women, Literary Ladies: The Industrial Revolution and Female Aspiration . By Sylvia Jenkins Cook. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford Univ. Press. 2008. 292 pp. Cloth, $99.00; paper, $24.95. Grotesque Relations: Modernist...

...Matthew Wynn Sivils © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Clear-Cutting Eden: Ecology and the Pastoral in Southern Literature . By Christopher Rieger. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2009. x, 202 pp. $39.75. Cotton's Queer Relations: Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature...

... writing, produced not simply on the land but through the medium of the land itself , while recording an activist witnessing of historical and ongoing attempts at its erasure. © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Chadwick Serpentine Figures, Sinuous Relations: Allen Thematic Geometry...

.... 2007. viii, 352 pp. Cloth, $67.50; paper, $22.50. Private Lives, Proper Relations: Regulating Black Intimacy . By Candice M. Jenkins. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2007. 250 pp. Cloth, $67.50; paper, $22.50. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Book Reviews Pen of Iron...

...Jana L. Argersinger Duke University Press 2002 Jana L. Family Embraces: The Unholy Kiss and Argersinger Authorial Relations in The Wide, Wide World In the originally unpublished final chapter of Susan Warner’s The Wide, Wide World, Ellen and her new husband...

.... of Chicago Press. 2004. 471 pp. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $25.00. A Desire for Women: Relational Psychoanalysis, Writing, and Relationships be- tween Women. By Suzanne Juhasz. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2003. x, 247 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.00. An infant and mother gaze into each...

...Marsha Bryant Duke University Press 2007 Marsha Gwendolyn Brooks, Ebony, Bryant and Postwar Race Relations A lthough Gwendolyn Brooks and Ebony emerged from the same Chicago neighborhood and published their first vol- umes in 1945...

...Jayson Gonzales Sae-Saue Using José Villarreal’s Pocho , Luis Valdez’s Vietnam Campesino , Américo Paredes’s “Ichiro Kikuchi,” and Rolando Hinojosa’s Korean Love Songs as its primary examples, Sae-Saue’s essay shows that crossracial relations between Chicana/os and Asians reverberate consistently...

...-Century Women’s Relations in the Short Story.By Christine Palumbo-DeSimone. Madison, N.J.: Farleigh Dickinson Univ. Press. 2000. 176 pp. $34.50. In her call for a rereading of nineteenth-century women’s...

...Joanna Brooks © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 The Captive's Position: Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England . By Teresa A. Toulouse. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2006. 225 pp. $49.95. Intricate Relations: Sexual...

... Connecticut for Jamaica in April of 1821 (MacMullen 1997 : 202), miniatures reified white presence, shoring up relations of intimate distance. For Séjour’s Georges, however, the miniature he carries is portable evidence of a white social world structured by exclusion. By emplotting Alfred’s miniature...

.... Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere . By Anna Brickhouse. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2004. xi, 329 pp. $70.00. Hemispheric Imaginings: The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire . By Gretchen Murphy. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2005. Cloth, $74.95...

...Marjorie Pryse In Jazz , Morrison explores the transferential relation between book and reader, invoking Kleinian object relations, Gates's Talking Book, and her characters' search for lost mothers to drive the reader into his or her own psychoanalytic search for origins. Joe, Violet, and Dorcas...

...Sean X. Goudie This essay brings into dialogue discrete conversations in Caribbean studies, international political economy (IPE), and hemispheric American studies. Contextualizing these fields through the trope of hospitality, a figure of particular significance in Caribbean-U.S. relations...

... about empathy that defined this concept quite differently from current usages. Rather than designating an interpersonal dynamic, this discourse considered empathy as a relation among bodies, objects, and desire within capitalism. Yezierska's fashion-conscious characters reveal a United States...

...Benjamin Reiss This essay explores Henry David Thoreau's Walden in relation to the history of sleep, considered as a medical, biological, social, and spiritual phenomenon. Attention to Thoreau's striving for “awakening” and “alertness” has veiled his running rhetoric of dormancy: scenes and tropes...

... to literature by the Julius Rosenwald Fund, arguably the most influential philanthropy at mid-century dedicated to race relations. For the fund, literature was a privileged tool for antiracist social transformation because of its unique capability to arouse white sympathies. Jodi Melamed argues that such ideas...