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... and its object, the agent blurred with the process of her continual self-invention as a hybrid of multiple cultures. Meditating on relations between subject and object, viewer and vision, consumer and commodity, Yezierska makes plain the role of citizen as consumer. Her work crystallizes the dominance...

..., they have increasingly drawn energy from aesthetic experiments in the representation of nonliberal temporality and subjectivity. Breaking free from the logic of credit and debt, which had pushed proponents toward the impossible task of quantifying trauma and the terrifying presumption that money could...

...Rebecca Walsh Lyric Shame: The “Lyric” Subject of Contemporary American Poetry . By White Gillian . Cambridge : Harvard Univ. Press . 2014 . 350 pp . $45.00 . American Hybrid Poetics: Gender, Mass Culture, and Form . By Robbins Amy Moorman . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers...

...Sianne Ngai Duke University Press 2002 Sianne ‘‘A Foul Lump Started Making Promises in My Ngai Voice Race, Affect, and the Animated Subject an-i-mate vt :1:to give spirit and support to: ENCOURAGE 2a: to give life to b: to give vigor...

... to better effect. All three authors situate their subject matter in the nineteenth century (with Brown’s extending into the twentieth). History’s Shadow examines the tectonic shifts of this period through a his- torian’s lens. Conn turns to popular journals, landscape painting, scientific treatises...

... viewer as the subject, not the object, of history. In contrast to Ruskin's writings that enshrine an English identity that would sublimate its specific relationship to slavery, the writings of contemporary postcolonial novelists such as Cliff articulate diasporic identities that interrogate...

...Taylor Hagood © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Inventing Black Women: African American Women Poets and Self-Representation, 1877–2000 . By Ajuan Maria Mance. Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press. 2007. x, 202 pp. $36.00. Writing the Roaming Subject: The Biotext in Canadian...

... some day—on any subject, or covering any kind of material. Talk about how you feel this material could best be taught, and what you would hope to be doing in the course. . . . Talk about how you’d like this course to be run, under what conditions you would most enjoy and profit from it . . . why...

... attention to the elements of the novel that made it unpublishable for almost fifty years. Attending closely to this tension brings forward the novel's insistent depiction of the historical impossibility of both subjectivity and literary production in the 1930s. The novel critiques and ironizes both...

...N. Katherine Hayles Duke University Press 2002 N. Katherine Saving the Subject: Remediation in Hayles House of Leaves Isitpossibletosavethesubjectnowthatithasbeen imploded by Jean Baudrillard, deconstructed by Jacques Derrida...

... Dillon . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2018 . x, 189 pp. Cloth, $94.95 ; paper, $24.95 ; e-book available. Mobile Subjects: Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment . By Aren Z. Aizura Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2018. xii, 282 pp. Cloth, $99.95 ; paper, $26.95 ; e...

..., and the Marriage Crisis . By David R. Shumway. xi, 269 pp. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2003. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $22.00. The Novel and the Obscene: Sexual Subjects in American Modernism . By Florence Dore. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2005. xii, 167 pp. $50.00. Book Reviews...

... Subjects, and American Modernities . By Laura Lomas. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2008. xvii, 379 pp. Cloth, $89.95; paper, $24.95. Book Reviews Shades of Green: Visions of Nature in the Literature of American Slavery, 1770– 1860. By Ian Frederick Finseth. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. xi...

... volatility, tactile communication, and psychotropic substances that pressure the bounds of human subjectivity at scales both personal and planetary, historical and ecological. Crucially, the sensory experiences described in this special issue advance posthumanist perspectives while also resisting them...

...Stephen Knadler Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects . By Stephanie Li . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2015 . 299 pp. Cloth, $73.00 ; e-book available. Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World . By Cassander...

... York : Columbia Univ. Press . 2016 . xxxix, 260 pp. Cloth, $60.00 ; e-book, $59.99 . Invisible Subjects: Asian America in Postwar Literature . By Heidi Kim . Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press . 2016 . xii, 233 pp. Cloth, $74.00 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019...

...Sean Metzger Transpacific Femininities: The Making of the Modern Filipina . By Cruz Denise . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2012 . xii , 296 pp. Cloth , $89.95 ; paper , $24.95 . Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism . By Duong Lan P...

...Jeanne Heuving The Darkness of the Present: Poetics, Anachronism, and the Anomaly . By McCaffery Steve . Tuscaloosa : Univ. of Alabama Press . 2012 . xii , 282 pp. Paper, $34.95 ; e-book, $34.95 . Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry . By Reddy...

...Floyd Cheung Racial Asymmetries: Asian American Fictional Worlds . By Sohn Stephen Hong . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2014 . 288 pp. Paper, $27.00 . Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry . By Wang Dorothy J...

... commonly discussed Anglo-American lineage of individualism. For this reason, though, the book’s contribution would have been further clarified by explicit engagement with Locke and the scholarship written in dialogue with liberal individualism. Despite its subtitle, Gothic Subjects is arguably less...