...Yoonmee Chang 2005 Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech . By Patti Duncan. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2004. xvi, 274 pp. $34.95; Crossing Cultures: Creating Identity in Chinese and Jewish American Literature .By Judith Oster. Columbia...

...Wendy Graham Duke University Press 2007 Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James . By J. Hillis Miller. New York: Fordham Univ. Press. 2005. xiii, 350 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $24.00. Troubling Minds: The Cultural Politics of Genius in the United States, 1840-1890...

...Dalia Kandiyoti Duke University Press 2007 Sounds of Defiance: The Holocaust, Multilingualism, and the Problem of English . By Alan Rosen. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2005. xiv, 248 pp. $45.00. Dialect and Dichotomy: Literary Representations of African American Speech...

...Maurice S. Lee Duke University Press 2000 Maurice S. Melville’s Subversive Political Philosophy: Lee ‘‘Benito Cereno’’ and the Fate of Speech 6141 AL 72:3 / sheet 39 of 237...

... Speech in the Antebellum United States . By Laura L. Mielke . Ann Arbor : Univ. of Michigan Press . 2019 . ix, 284 pp. Cloth, $75.00 ; e-book, $59.95 . Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 “List your top ten playwrights from the nineteenth century. . . . Or name your top...

... ‘‘distort[ed] the history of women’s participation in the political process’’ (1). A well-documented study, Well-Tempered Women is illuminated by numer- ous archival materials as well as by recently published collected speeches...

...Daniel Grace Abstract This essay examines Frederick Douglass’s oratory of the 1840s, when religious appeals drove his abolitionist rhetoric. In addressing the lack of critical attention paid to his early oratory and evangelism, the essay argues that these speeches, which he delivered to audiences...

...Laura L. Mielke This essay claims that antebellum theatrical star Edwin Forrest registered the era’s investment in oratorical eloquence and anxiety concerning the potentially incendiary nature of free expression in a democracy marked by economic and racial inequality. Forrest’s July 4, 1838, speech...

... citation of these images in various mid-nineteenth-century speeches, Chaney argues that this intertextual and transatlantic dialogue with Punch enabled Douglass to renegotiate inscriptions of racialization, authority, and iconic celebrity. Beyond the cartoons, key pieces of evidence utilized in the essay...

...Dawn Coleman Challenging the critical commonplace that Uncle Tom's Cabin is, in effect, a sentimental sermon, this essay takes the novel's relationship to preaching, one of the most culturally authoritative forms of speech in antebellum America, as itself an object of analysis. It shows that Stowe...

... the transatlantic cable and that served, over the course of the decade, as a metonym for advanced telecommunications technology. In Congress, Brooks's assault was depicted by Senator Andrew Butler as a rejoinder to Sumner's speech as an improper—because prepublished and internationally distributed—abolitionist...

... (1880)—a text that constantly signals its own inability to reproduce the speech and music of New Orleans's Afro-Creole community—in order to illustrate the growing sense among late-nineteenth-century U.S. writers that the written word was fundamentally inadequate as a sound archive. The second half...

...Odile Harter The Great Depression engendered a special kind of first-person plural, which drove fundamental changes in Marianne Moore’s quoting practice during the period. She moved toward a quotation practice that was less dense, drawn increasingly from mottoes and collective speech, and couched...

... and cultural nationalist gender and sexual binds. By juxtaposing the spatiotemporalities and affects of these fantasies alongside those of Ronald Reagan’s speeches and CIA literature produced in the wake of the Grenada invasion, the essay shows how these Hurstonian fantasies of the Caribbean worked to both...

... improvisation on the iconography of black vernacular life. In the middle of this cacophony of frantic chant and scream, Baraka posits silence, and not speech, as the condition of black cultural distinctiveness. In doing so, he presents a vision of black vernacular culture that does not privilege orality...

... in this development. As a consciously synthetic form of writing, the vernacular sonnet allowed poets to combine black everyday speech and high-modernist elements without subordinating one to the other. The essay examines the transformations these idioms underwent in response to each other and traces the emergence...

... that extends work by Brent Hayes Edwards, Robert F. Reid-Pharr, and Nadia Nurhussein. To manifest this argument, this article examines Paul Robeson’s speeches at rallies in London that he later reprinted in his autobiography Here I Stand (1958) and Claude McKay’s posthumously published novel Amiable with Big...

..., Number 1, March 2005. Copyright © 2005 by Duke University Press. 34 American Literature and entirely spontaneous—public speech. As she listened to a man at a Quaker meeting oppose granting women political rights, she jumped up without premeditation and replied with her own speech. She re- calls...

...Thomas H. Kane Duke University 2004 Thomas H. Mourning the Promised Land: Martin Luther Kane King Jr.’s Automortography and the National Civil Rights Museum When Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his final speech on the night of 3 April 1968...

... theorizations of speech as a resource for poetic innovation. Raphael Allison dedicates his study to examining the live speech of the 1960s public poetry reading, while Urayoán Noel analyzes the history of Nuyorican poetry, a largely performance-based tradition that has its roots in the expressive cul- tures...