...Shawn Salvant Duke University Press 2007 Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women's Lives . By Jenny Sharpe. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2003. xxvi, 187 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $20.00. Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial...

... © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature . By Arthur Riss. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2006. viii, 238 pp. $80.00. Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830–1860 . By Maurice S. Lee...

... reassurance in their discoveries of the potential for vital human engagement in all kinds of reading and writing practices. Janet Dean, Bryant University DOI 10.1215/00029831-2647054 Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America. By Tess Chakkalakal. Urbana: Univ...

...Teresa A. Goddu © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Shades of Green: Visions of Nature in the Literature of American Slavery, 1770–1860 . By Ian Frederick Finseth. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. xi, 348 pp. 2009. $39.95. Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions...

..., Slavery, and Gender in Contemporary Black Women’s Fiction. By Angelyn Mitchell. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2002. xiv, 170 pp. Cloth, $59.00; paper, $20.00. Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony. By Dwight A. McBride. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2002. xvi...

...Elizabeth Fekete Trubey Duke University Press 2005 Elizabeth Emancipating the Lettered Slave: Sentiment and Fekete Slavery in Augusta Evans’s St. Elmo Trubey The historical link, through sympathy, of sentimen- tal literature and abolitionist politics has...

...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...

...Brooke Hopkins John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights. By David S. Reynolds. New York: Knopf. 2005. x, 578 pp. $35.00. 2006 Book Reviews John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War...

...Mikko Tuhkanen Duke University Press 2007 Mikko ​“Out of Joint”: Passing, Haunting, and Tuhkanen the Time of Slavery in Hagar’s Daughter . . . that mystic clock, whose ticking is rarely heard in the slaveholder’s breast.—Harriet Jacobs...

... Legal Fictions of Slavery and Resistance. By Chris- tina Accomando. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2001. xii, 257 pp. Paper, $22.95. The juxtaposition of two new books on African American women by liter...

... Women in Chains: The Legacy of Slavery in Black Women’s Fiction. By Venetría K. Patton. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2000. xviii, 194 pp. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $16.95. This recent text by Venetría...

... of ‘‘heroes’’ in American culture and history to examine ‘‘villains’’ on their own terms. The negative connotations of blackness passed down from ancient Western soci- eties, to the Atlantic slave trade, to American slavery, and into contemporary society have posited black men historically as villains...

...Allison S. Curseen Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights . By Bernstein Robin . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2011 . 318 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper , $24.00 . Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity...

...Cristin Ellis Ellis’s essay reconstructs the history of environmental crisis—the crisis of Southern soil exhaustion—at the heart of the antebellum slavery debates. Through readings of landscape in My Bondage and My Freedom , the essay argues that in the 1850s, Douglass displaces the moral...

... view of American history. These writers oppose exceptionalism by linking the United States to a broader and deeper history defined by slavery, empire, and ruin, while at the same time offering a prophetic vision of a future beyond the “empire of slavery.” © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

...Gwen Bergner Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. This special issue focuses on the plantation, the postplantation, and the afterlives of slavery to consider how...

...Katherine Biers Weapons of Democracy: Propaganda, Progressivism, and American Public Opinion . By Jonathan Auerbach . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press . 2015 . ix, 232 pp. Cloth, $49.95 . Untimely Democracy: The Politics of Progress after Slavery . By Gregory Laski...

... Literary Imagination . By Farrell O’Gorman . Notre Dame, IN : Univ. of Notre Dame Press . 2017 . xi, 326 pp. Cloth, $ 60.00 ; e-book, $ 47.99 . Sacraments of Memory: Catholicism and Slavery in Contemporary African American Literature . By Erin Michael Salius . Gainesville : Univ...

... volume approaches Romantic-era (capaciously defined) conflicts over slavery, abolition, colonialism, and racialization from a postsecular perspective, urging us to see these antagonisms as instancing a cosmological struggle among competing conceptions of divinity, and, indeed, as a struggle among gods...

...Madhu Dubey Since the 1970s, African American novelists have persistently drawn on antirealist genres (including science fiction, fantasy, ghost stories, and magic realism) to revisit the history of slavery. Focusing on literary and mass-market fiction by authors such as Stephen Barnes, David...