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...Magdalena J. Zaborowska Sites Unseen: Architecture, Race, and American Literature . By Gleason William A. . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2011 . xiii , 271 pp. Cloth , $65.00 ; paper , $22.00 . Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries . By Tongson Karen . New...

...Keith Wilhite Wilhite contends that a general indebtedness to Cold War cultural critique has kept literary scholars from reading the suburbs and suburban fiction for what they truly are: the endgame and final outpost of US regionalism. Drawing on discussions of regional writing and cultural...

... verse” and amateur popular poets, Gill’s recuperative study reveals “a more critical and transgres- sive heart” behind the “apparently quiet affirmation” of suburban aesthetic culture. The “characteristically self-conscious, even self-doubting, suburban poetic voice,” surprising in “its diversity...

.... Now Baldwin and Kristin L. Matthews have returned to the Cold War of the United States and the Soviet Union to challenge the two-worlds model from within, to see what the lessons of the new Cold War studies can teach us about the old. Baldwin traces the absences of the modular suburban kitchen...

... the ‘‘rights and privileges’’ of suburban life as ‘‘spiritual, cultural, and political problems of displacement, in which being white and middle class is imagined to have as much or more to do with subjugation as with social dominance...

...] himself on a clean towel, and step[s] into the bedroom again, without once missing a bar of the tune he [is] whistling, or thinking there [is] anything remarkable about it” (5). Cain’s detailed account of Bert’s suburban, domestic routine calls the reader’s attention to the infrastructures upon which...

... liberation movements of the African diaspora we see throughout the poem. It links the prac- tice of housing segregation in northern suburban communities like Mount Vernon with the more widely recognized practices of the Jim Crow South. At a time when the national perception of the civil rights...

... in listening stemming from New York’s rapidly changing geography of race and economics. The sounds that accom- panied urban-renewal projects, suburbanization, and new waves of migration were amplified by new media technologies, efforts to gener- ate dialogue within and between communities, and public...

... ethnic and urban contexts: Mafia activity emanating from the station house, that beat cop now a ‘‘made’’ man, aslideintothatroughItalianvoiceonthetelephonetap.Butmore covertly, this drama plays out against a backdrop of deindustrializa- tion, white flight, and suburban consumerism. Those family vans...

... impression of the poet as ‘‘the portly, gray-suited, suburban metaphysician, the aesthetic hedonist, the connoisseur of modernism’’ (42), and to recognize him also as an ecological poet who verbalized ‘‘a sense of the immediacy...

... study both challenges and expands our understanding of Stevens, asking us to broaden our limiting impression of the poet as ‘‘the portly, gray-suited, suburban metaphysician, the aesthetic hedonist...

... pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $22.00. Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries. By Karen Tongson. New York: New York Univ. Press, 2011. xvi, 283 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $24.00. Gleason’s Sights Unseen brings together nineteenth- and early-twentieth- century African American and ethnic literatures...

.... New York: New York Univ. Press. 2011. xiii, 271 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $22.00. Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries. By Karen Tongson. New York: New York Univ. Press, 2011. xvi, 283 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $24.00. Gleason’s Sights Unseen brings together nineteenth- and early-twentieth...

... pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $22.00. Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries. By Karen Tongson. New York: New York Univ. Press, 2011. xvi, 283 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $24.00. Gleason’s Sights Unseen brings together nineteenth- and early-twentieth- century African American and ethnic literatures...

.... New York: New York Univ. Press. 2011. xiii, 271 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $22.00. Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries. By Karen Tongson. New York: New York Univ. Press, 2011. xvi, 283 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $24.00. Gleason’s Sights Unseen brings together nineteenth- and early-twentieth...

.... New York: New York Univ. Press. 2011. xiii, 271 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $22.00. Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries. By Karen Tongson. New York: New York Univ. Press, 2011. xvi, 283 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $24.00. Gleason’s Sights Unseen brings together nineteenth- and early-twentieth...

... Unseen: Architecture, Race, and American Literature. By William A. Glea- son. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2011. xiii, 271 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $22.00. Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries. By Karen Tongson. New York: New York Univ. Press, 2011. xvi, 283 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $24.00...

.... New York: New York Univ. Press. 2011. xiii, 271 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $22.00. Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries. By Karen Tongson. New York: New York Univ. Press, 2011. xvi, 283 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $24.00. Gleason’s Sights Unseen brings together nineteenth- and early-twentieth...

...- keeping and Toni Morrison’s Beloved to examples of domestic masculinity in the suburban novels of John Edgar Wideman, Don DeLillo, Richard Ford, and Andre Dubus III and of queer domesticity produced by Jonathan Franzen, Michael Cunningham, and Chang-rae Lee. (Jacobson also includes a long list...

.... Highlighting several commonplaces in Cold War cultural studies—that Cold War doxa impacted gender roles, was reflected in suburban living, regulated power and benefits within racial parameters, and demonized homosexuality; that its regulatory apparatus was internalized as generic suspicion of deviance...