...Monika Barbara Siebert Surprisingly for a novel evidently invested in representations of contemporary Choctaw traditionalism as a viable alternative to settler society, LeAnne Howe's 2001 Shell Shaker gives unrelenting play to the gruesomeness, horror even, of the traditional rituals it depicts...

...James Dawes American Writers and the Approach of World War II, 1935–1941: A Literary History . By Takayoshi Ichiro . Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press . 2015 . ix, 333 pp. Cloth , $102.00 ; e-book, $82.00 . Shell Shock, Memory, and the Novel in the Wake of World War I...

... in the morning papers of the battle of yesterday was not seen by the correspondent, but was put together from reports. What the correspondent really saw was dust and the nasty burst of shells, low bushes and slit trenches. He lay on his stomach, if he had any sense, and watched ants crawling among the little...

...,” 775–801. Selisker, Scott. “‘Simply by Reacting The Sociology of Race and Invisible Man’s Automata,” 571–96. Siebert, Monika Barbara. “Repugnant Aboriginality: LeAnne Howe’s Shell Index to Volume 83 899 Shaker and Indigenous...

... America: Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and the Languages of American Literature (1998). Marc Shell has edited a sec- ondvolumeofsuchcriticismentitledAmerican Babel: Literatures of the United States from Abnaki to Zuni (2002), and the Johns Hopkins University Press has begun to issue titles in a book...

... on Mrs. Dalloway, Williams reads Clarissa as an artist because of her elabo- rate dinner party, contrasting her with the shell-shocked war veteran Septi- mus. She then links Septimus to Pecola Breedlove in Morrison’s The Bluest...

... to Iro- quois diplomacy (particularly peace making) and archival production; its use was deeply embedded in and extended throughout Iroquois culture. On a material level, early-contact wampum belts and strings con- sisted of sinew that held together deep purple and white shells called...

... to the visceral record of the Algonquin worldview in how John Smith’s maps (if not his narrative) leave the unexplored parts of Virginia crowded with Indian names and symbology, visually echoing the cosmologies represented in the shell maps of Powhatan. These maps are then reused in an otherwise all-too-typical...

... or stronger power-ups. Another example comes with the practice of “rubberbanding” in multiplayer video games in which a game increases or decreases difficulties based on players’ real-time performances, as with the infamous “spiny” or “blue” shell that targets the first-place racer in all games in the Mario...

... shell were enough. Mine is no callous shell, I have instant conductors all over me whether I pass or stop, They seize every object and lead it harmlessly through me. I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and am happy, To touch my person to some one else’s is about as much as I...

... an intervention in literary studies by crafting a single-author study of a Native writer that “widens from the local to the global” with analysis of texts and media like Miko Kings (2007), Indian Country Diaries: Spiral of Fire (2006), and Shell Shaker (2001). Kim Stanley Robinson . By Robert Markley...

... of money with the possibility of being a person 19 The very cash that Brydon envisions as the suitable reply to the check’s explicit demand was associated, throughout the century, with the fiat or paper money that connoted, as Marc Shell observes, everything from ‘‘shadow’’ cash and phantom’ banks...

... of Rights Contract Governing the Author of Annlee .” In No Ghost Just a Shell , edited by Huyghe Pierre and Parreno Philippe , 303 . Eindhoven, NL : Van Abbemuseum . While Chang-rae Lee’s novel illustrates in part the interrelations between biopower, space, and race, how might we see...

.... This return to an intrinsic value, was, as Marc Shell has shown, linked to anxieties about signification itself: T]he zealous backers of solid specie associated gold with the substance of value and disparaged all paper as the ‘insubstantial’ sign 17 American thinking about the gold standard thus always...

.... Press. 2014. xxxi, 152. Cloth, $29.95; e-book available. In Iroquois culture, wampum belts consist of hemp cords strung with white and purple beads made from shells. Although these belts have significant spiri- tual properties, this book focuses on the secular aspects of wampum, such as how...

... and their modernist heirs withdrew from the socio- political world around them into a realm of pure aestheticism, “excret- ing, like patient molluscs, iridescent shells of literature.” Although Wilson understands the appeal of turning from a world in which the “concerted efforts of the War had...

... as a space of economic exchange—by drawing on a peculiar episode from the early years of the United States. Elaborating on John Cleves Symmes’s apparently crackpot notion that the earth is a hollow shell containing an additional world populated by an advanced race (and the long tradition...

... in her ‘‘song of democracy H.D., only half ironically, privileges the original and originary settlers over the modern immi- grants as she offers a counterdefinition to Masters’s American: Robert Frost is ‘‘American Emily Dickinson is ‘‘American Sea- shell is ‘‘American if cast on that shore...

... that they can only escape the gaze of Saturn by hiding beneath the shells of mechanical tortoises. It’s a striking detail evoking Dr. William Grey Walter, a neurophysiologist and prominent figure in early order cybernetics, who created “robot tortoises” to model how the brain functions by programming...

... Literature: Literary Translation 1773–1892. Following the path charted by Werner Sollors and Marc Shell at Harvard University’s Longfellow Institute, Boggs explores the importance of languages other than English in U.S. lit- erature through her study of literary translation. Boggs premises her study...