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...Tyler Nickl Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909 . By Schuyler David . Ithaca, NY : Cornell Univ. Press . 2012 . xii , 206 pp. $29.95 . Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition . By Sachs Aaron . New...

...Caroline Wigginton Abstract This essay recognizes the totality of practices by which Native peoples of the upper Mississippi River valley for centuries oriented themselves to place as an Indigenous map. After limning the map and its material and nonmaterial components, I then place it at the center...

...: A Feminist View . Ed. Barbara J. Cook. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield. 2007. viii, 144 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95. The Impossible Land: Story and Place in California's Imperial Valley . By Phillip H. Round. Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press. 2008. xii, 192 pp. Paper, $19.95. Book...

...Melissa Gniadek This essay reads George Lippard’s ’Bel of Prairie Eden (1848), E.D.E.N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand (1859), and a moving panorama, The Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley (ca. 1850), to show how the serial structures and temporalities of these particular...

...Liz Polcha Abstract The Ursuline convent in New Orleans is the oldest standing European-designed structure in the Mississippi Valley, a site of the plantationocene in the ongoing colonial project, within a global South landscape of wetlands and barrier islands that are rapidly becoming...

... years echo” (BCR, 10). These passages come from Oandasan’s cycle of poems written in the spirit of the Round Valley People’s songs, which he inherited from his mother.41 Like Vizenor’s reinterpretations of Anishinaabe dream songs, Oandasan’s work with Round Valley songs constitutes a “com...

... of thrilling interest.” Portions of Martin Delany’s “Blake; or the Huts of America.—A Tale of the Mississippi Valley, the Southern United States and Cuba” had already appeared in the monthly Anglo-African Magazine, but “owing to the departure of [the] author on an Exploring expedition...

... of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley,” 31–59. Gordon, Jane Anna. Review: Banita, Plotting Justice: Narrative Ethics and Lit- erary Culture after 9/11, 633–36. Review: English, Each Hour Redeem: Time and Justice in African Amer- ican Literature, 633–36. Review: Smith, The Oracle...

... runoff channel, the reflecting pool at the Mulwray residence, and irrigation ditches in the San Fernando Valley. The camera directs the viewer’s gaze not just to the typical noir sites of femme fatales and dead bodies but also to Los Angeles’s extensive water infrastructure. By the end of the film...

... by asking the crucial question of “for whom,” countering tendencies to see AI as a story only about Silicon Valley, US corporations, cities, and the affluent and instead approaching AI from the perspectives of Chinese farmers and others living in rural contexts. AI in the Wild is US-centered while...

... Psychozoic theory than a complex response to it. Where LeConte ( 1877 ) saw the “reign of mind” as a mark of the “transcendent dignity” of humanity (556), his student would ask a more critical set of questions of the exhausted San Joaquin Valley. Where was human “dignity” to be found in the stripped soil...

... is among the first to write lucidly of Ellison’s second novel, emphasizing the cen- trality of Rev. Hickman’s ‘‘Valley of the Dry Bones’’ sermon, a particularly apt example of the amalgam of blues and spirituals. The book concludes by con...

... Native American Legends of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley. Ed. Katharine B. Judson. DeKalb: Northern Illinois Univ. Press. 2000. 204 pp. Cloth, $38.00; paper, 6218 American Literature 72:4 / sheet 210 of238 $18.00. First...

... finances made funding the comic a continual battle—one that various periodicals put extra effort into solving, thereby proving the import of Bechdel’s strip to their readers. For example, in the July/August 1988 issue of Valley Women’s Voice (Pioneer Valley, MA), the paper printed a notice above one...

... of historical sources, and authorial metacommentary; each novel includes an apparatus of glossaries, timelines, and lengthy endnotes. The Dying Grass explores the background, progression, and aftermath of the Nez Perce War, focusing primarily on the Wallowa Valley–based members of the tribe and members...

... processing and text production. 5 Some people are physiologically repelled by language generation that can increasingly seem at times convincingly indistinguishable from human production. They experience what Mashiro Mori called the uncanny valley , 6 a queasiness that comes when a technological...

... that self-reflexively consider the local-color enter- prise and that include tourists or other ‘‘outsiders Her characteris- tic stories take the region’s ‘‘local color’’ eccentricity for granted and portray the region as hermetically sealed from all outsiders. But ‘‘The Star in the Valley one of her most...

... by Silicon Valley and often critiqued in these texts—still sometimes shows up as an operational tendency in certain kinds of technological critique, for example, when physical machines or algorithms are blamed for disinformation on the web (“it is the algorithm!”), by and large scholarship today has migrated...

... companies developing and profiting from these systems in the first place suggests AI alignment is the wrong way to think about the broader questions at stake. If AI technologies are aligned solely with the values and priorities of wealthy, technocratic, and often reactionary Silicon Valley tycoons, what...