... work in the urgent process of analyzing the complex racial dynamics of U.S. culture. Malini Johar Schueller, University of Florida 196 American Literature Strange Talk: The Politics of Dialect Literature in Gilded Age America. By Gavin Jones. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press...

...Stacey Peebles Duke University Press 2007 Strange Future: Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots . By Min Hyoung Song. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2005. xii, 285 pp. Paper, $22.95. The Edge of Modernism: American Poetry and the Traumatic Past . By Walter Kalaidjian...

... presents the oscillation between familiarity and strangeness as the mechanism of wonder, both in the brain and in narrative, and performs wonder by taking readers through a series of dialectics that aim to defamiliarize the everyday. The Echo Maker ’s narrative complexity uncovers the obverse of wonder...

...Erin Gentry Lamb © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Uses of Literature. By Rita Felski. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 2008. vi, 154 pp. Cloth, $89.95; paper, $31.95. Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible: Cognition, Culture, Narrative. By Lisa Zunshine...

... and Culture . By Fenton Elizabeth . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2011 . xi, 178 pp. $65.00 . Strange Jeremiahs: Civil Religion and the Literary Imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W. E. B. DuBois . By Stewart Carole Lynn . Albuquerque : Univ. of New Mexico...

... an aesthetic of refusal that brings into view an alternative literary historical trajectory of the politics of ungenre. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Dana Strange Beauty: Seitler The Politics of Ungenre in Rebecca Harding Davis’s Life in the Iron Mills...

...–1995 . By C. T. Funkhouser. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2007. xxiv, 349 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $39.95. Singing in a Strange Land: A Jewish American Poetics . By Maeera Y. Shreiber. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2007. xi, 287 pp. $55.00. Book Reviews Folded Selves...

...John Carlos Rowe Intransitive Encounter: Sino-U.S. Literatures and the Limits of Exchange . By Nan Z. Da New York : Columbia Univ. Press . 2018 . x, 294 pp. Cloth, $75.00 ; e-book, $74.99 . Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific: Imperialism’s Racial Justice and Its Fugitives...

... divisiveness aimed at constructing a singular community of feeling capable of wresting the present, past, and future from the nation’s own strange, amnesiac history of multiplicity, diversity, and dissenting visions. In response to this dangerous moment, perhaps what is needed are not merely reminders...

... with texts that had come to embody patriarchal cultural authority and that she met them on those terms, with both defiance and reverence. The author’s tone is similarly mixed. Her examination of H.D.’s ‘‘keen-edged heterodoxy, rebelliousness, and surprising strangeness’’ is itself often edgy, insightful...

... . C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America. IFC Films. DVD. Del Mar, CA : Genius Entertainment . Woolfork Lisa . 2009 . Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary Culture . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois Press . Michael A. Strangely Interested: Elliott The Work of Historical...

... Srikanth . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2012 . x , 192 pp. $40.95 . A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature . By Edmond Jacob . New York : Fordham Univ. Press . 2012 . xv , 272 pp. Cloth, $70.00 ; paper, $26.00...

...-determined temporality exceeds or escapes the force of historical necessity. What Melville creates in Battle-Pieces through this fusion of politics and aesthetics is nothing less than a novel lyric form, one whose strange capaciousness has everything to do with its refractions and rearrangements...

... soldiers’ responses to war violence as beset by paradox—as normal as childbirth yet “beyond bearing.” I use this strange juxtaposition of documents (postmodern dispatch and official reports and memoranda) to reflect on the archive as an accidental anthology that allows us the opportunity to read disparate...

... by political theorists to unsettle these texts’ easy dismissal of the strange sense perceptions and bodily capacities that obeah cultivated among enslaved persons. In their anxious attempts to debunk obeah, these narratives record what Jacques Rancière calls a “dissensus”: a clash between competing models...

... the role of form in relation to political change. Hunt's work shows that formal innovations—in this case, a particularly strange use of ecological metaphor—need not merely reflect historical ruptures, but can also be understood to produce bodily affects that are themselves constitutive of altered attitudes...

... Bartleby quite literally appeared, as would an apparition. But what would it mean to take Melville at his word and read Bar- tleby as an apparition? We would be reminded of what current critics of the story seem to have forgotten: Bartleby is strange. Contempo- raneous reviewers certainly saw...

.... Edelstein, Sari. “Louisa May Alcott’s Age,” 517–45. Elliott, Michael A. “Strangely Interested: The Work of Historical Fantasy,” 137–57. Emre, Merve. “Ironic Institutions: Counterculture Fictions and the American Express Company,” 107–36. Ernest, John. Review: To Live an Antislavery Life...

.... Index to Volume 86  871 Schroeder, Jonathan David Shelly. “The Painting of Modern Light: Local Color before Regionalism,” 551–81. Seitler, Dana. “Strange Beauty: Aspiration and the Politics of Ungenre in Rebecca Harding Davis’s Life in the Iron Mills,” 523–49. Shreve, Grant. “Fragile...

... geography or his controversial view on racial inequality in the post-Reconstruction South, but his apparent facility with the strange sounds of French Creole and African American speech. According to contemporaneous reviews, the quality of Cable’s orthography was unmatched. Contrary...