...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...

... War through World War II. By James Dawes. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2002. viii, 308 pp. $39.95. Despite this nation’s revolutionary beginnings, literary criticism has gener- ally failed to recognize the centrality of violence and dissent to U.S. culture. Violence occasionally consumes...

... World War II. By James Dawes. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2002. viii, 308 pp. $39.95. Despite this nation’s revolutionary beginnings, literary criticism has gener- ally failed to recognize the centrality of violence and dissent to U.S. culture. Violence occasionally consumes Hawthorne’s dream...

... 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...

... with queer studies (given that the AIDS coalition preceded them). Both Case and Moraga hold to their feminist lesbian identities. I could not imagine men and women together in Tattelman’s reconstructed bath house. Diane DiMassa’s zine char- acter Hothead Paisan and her text on violence, as read by Liana...

...Sarah Wilson Duke University Press 2003 Sarah ‘‘Fragmentary and Inconclusive’’ Violence: Wilson National History and Literary Form in The Professor’s House 6903 AMERICAN...

.... of Arizona Press. 2001. x, 261 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $21.95. Legacy of Rage: Jewish Masculinity, Violence, and Culture. By Warren Rosenberg. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2001. xi, 312 pp. $34.95...

...Houston A. Baker, Jr.; Dana D. Nelson Duke University Press 2001 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Houston A. Preface: Violence, the Body and ‘‘The South...

...Jeannine DeLombard Duke University Press 2001 Jeannine ‘‘Eye-Witness to the Cruelty Southern Violence DeLombard and Northern Testimony in Frederick Douglass’s 1845 Narrative 6363...

...Bryan Wagner Duke University Press 2001 Bryan Charles Chesnutt and the Epistemology Wagner of Racial Violence 6363 AMERICAN LITERATURE 73:2 / sheet 85 of 232 In November 1898...

...) and the undergirding of Ralph Chang’s Franklinian quest by his wife and sister’s arduous efforts to make the bourgeois ‘‘house hold’’ in an atmosphere of physical and psychological violence in Gish Jen’s Typical American. The second half of the book ‘‘transverses the national’’ through a discus- sion of Jessica...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...