...Greg Forter Duke University Press 2006 Mystery, Violence, and Popular Culture . By John G. Cawelti. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press. 2004. xiv, 410 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $21.95. Heartbreakers: Women and Violence in Contemporary Culture and Literature . By Josephine...

...Claudia Sadowski-Smith Enemies of All Humankind: Fictions of Legitimate Violence . By Sonja Schillings . Lebanon, NH : Dartmouth College Press . 2017 . xi, 287 pp. Cloth, $95.00 ; paper, $40.00 ; e-book, $7.99 . Gendered Asylum: Race and Violence in U.S. Law and Politics...

...Samantha Pinto Radical Sensations: World Movements, Violence, and Visual Culture . By Streeby Shelley . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2013 . xxii , 328 pp. Cloth , $94.95 ; paper , $25.95 ; e-book , $25.95 . Humanitarian Violence: The US Deployment of Diversity...

... of Ottawa America’s Culture of Terrorism: Violence, Capitalism, and the Written Word.ByJef- fory A. Clymer. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2003. xii, 277 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $19.95. Crimes of Art and Terror. By Frank Lentricchia and Jody McAuliffe. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press...

... and the extreme violence of the war, a conjunction that pro- duced not only an abundance of images of exposed, wounded male bodies but also an association between these bodies and the injured nation. Such images encouraged viewers to take pleasure in their own historic pain—to experience...

... Racism and Violence in Current US Literary and Cultural Criticism Represent and Destroy: Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capi- talism. By Jodi Melamed. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2011. 304 pp. Paper, $25.00. Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality...

...Kathleen McClancy The Oriental Obscene: Violence and Racial Fantasies in the Vietnam Era . By Chong Sylvia Shin Huey . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2012 . xii , 364 pp. Cloth , $94.95 ; paper , $26.95 . Welcome to the Suck: Narrating the American Soldier's Experience...

...Mark Fulk © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 The Spaces of Violence . By James R. Giles. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2006. xv, 209 pp. $42.50. The Economics of Fantasy: Rape in Twentieth-Century Literature . By Sharon Stockton. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2006...

... is best known, Emerson came to embrace even the most extreme forms of militancy—up to and including terroristic violence—as legitimate means to engage in the modern secular political process. Representing Brown's abolitionism as an approved form of zealotry, Emerson began to praise historical religious...

... differences into symbols of national unity, Protestantism—often through acts of aggression and violence—manages to depict other spiritual practices (Indian, Catholic) as nonreligions and not American. Through a series of inspired readings of works by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain...

...). Custerology is a deeply searching and substantial contribution to scholarship of American imperialism, territorial conflict, violence, and cul- tural memory. It belongs on a shelf next to Richard Slotkin’s Gunfighter Nation and Tom Engelhardt’s The End of Victory Culture. Speak Like Singing: Classics...

...Richard T. Rodríguez Unspeakable Violence: Remapping US and Mexican National Imaginaries . By Guidotti-Hernández Nicole M. . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2011 . xviii , 374 pp. Cloth , $94.95 ; paper , $25.95 . Chicano Nations: The Hemispheric Origins of Mexican American...

.... of Illinois Press. 2011. 145 pp. $40.00. Righteous Violence: Revolution, Slavery, and the American Renaissance. By Larry J. Reynolds. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2011. xvi, 256 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $24.95. These books underline how utterly foundational the existence of slavery was to both...

... and literature, sound and text, together, offering new critical and historical tools for under- standing their complex relation. Gayle Wald, George Washington University DOI 10.1215/00029831-3329638 The Prestige of Violence: American Fiction, 1962–2007. By Sally Bachner. Athens: Univ...

...Michael D’Alessandro Creole Drama: Theatre and Society in Antebellum New Orleans . By Juliane Braun . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2019 . xv, 260 pp. Cloth, $69.50 ; paper, $35.00 ; e-book, $69.50 . Provocative Eloquence: Theater, Violence, and Antislavery...

... presence is fundamentally gothic. Geomemory, a trope evident across the emerging canon of contemporary African American fiction, allows writers to address the representational challenge of infrastructural and spatial violence via a defamiliarizing chronotope in which past, present, and future come...

...Matthew Scully Abstract By attending to art and writing that interrogates US citizenship and state violence, this essay foregrounds the structural antagonism between democracy as an instituted form of rule, which depends on inegalitarian hierarchies, and democracy’s egalitarian drive. It argues...

...Eric Solomon Duke University Press 2006 John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, and the Culture of War . By Franny Nudelman. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2004. x, 226 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95. The War Complex: World War in Our Time. By Marianna...

... . By Knutson Andrea . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2011 . ix, 200 pp. $65.00 . Love’s Whipping Boy: Violence and Sentimentality in the American Imagination . By Barnes Elizabeth . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . 2011 . vii, 211 pp. $49.95 . Revolutionary Deists...

...Laura Lomas Duke University Press 2006 Laura ‘‘The War Cut Out My Tongue Lomas Domestic Violence, Foreign Wars, and Translation in Demetria Martínez We always had a hard time getting the Atlacatl soldiers to take prisoners...