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... A Voice of Thunder: A Black Soldier’s Civil War. By George E. Stephens. Ed. Donald Yacovone. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 1998. xxi, 350 pp. Cloth, $26.95; paper, $18.95. Donald Yacovone provides...

...- erature so that we may examine what we mean by Southern literature before we discuss or teach it. Veronica Makowsky, University of Connecticut The Irish Voice in America: 250 Years of Irish-American Fiction. 2d...

... for women, the huge career of African American evangelist Amanda Berry Smith, and the quirky voice of writer Elizabeth Oakes Smith. To show, despite evidence against it, that her thinkers promoted anti-exclusionary agendas from within the Prot- estant faith that oppressed them, Haynes observes...

... , $25.00 . Girls and Their Comics: Finding a Female Voice in Comic Book Narrative . By Danziger-Russell Jacqueline . Lanham, MD : Scarecrow Press . 2013 . viii , 247 pp. $60.00 . © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Book Reviews The Erotics of Sovereignty: Queer Native Writing...

...Eric A. Wolfe Duke University Press 2006 Eric A. Ventriloquizing Nation: Wolfe Voice, Identity, and Radical Democracy in Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like...

...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...

...Brian M. Reed © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 John Ashbery and You: His Later Books . By John Emil Vincent. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2007. xii, 192 pp. $32.95. Beyond Maximus: The Construction of Public Voice in Black Mountain Poetry . By Anne Day Dewey. Stanford...

...Seth McKelvey Abstract In liberal political economy, voice (voting, complaining, etc.) and exit (dissociating, boycotting, etc.) are the two primary feedback mechanisms for improving large organizations. When it comes to the political state, however, exit is off the table: no one leaves the state...

...Laura Henigman Steven M. Stowe has set himself the paradoxical task of reading southern women’s war diaries with empathy while acknowledging that he censures them—“they are not sympathetic figures” (x). Her Voice Will Be on the Side of Right is an unusually written book, a collection of very...

... singers, all of whom, as she observes, we can readily hear and see on YouTube (8). In “reconstructing an archive of voice,” Fiol-Matta engages a number of theorists (Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Lacan, and José Esteban Muñoz most prominently), while she, like all four authors, highlights the singers’ agency...

...Jacob Rama Berman Duke University Press 2007 ­Jacob The Barbarous Voice of Democracy: Rama American Captivity in Barbary and the Berman Multicultural Specter On 25 July 1785, a Boston schooner named the Maria, bound...

... for women, the huge career of African American evangelist Amanda Berry Smith, and the quirky voice of writer Elizabeth Oakes Smith. To show, despite evidence against it, that her thinkers promoted anti-exclusionary agendas from within the Prot- estant faith that oppressed them, Haynes observes...

...Brian M. Reed Duke University Press 2007 Expressionism and Modernism in the American Theatre: Bodies, Voices, Words . By Julia A. Walker. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2005. xii, 300 pp. $75.00. Ugly Feelings . By Sianne Ngai. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2005. 432 pp...

...Jeff Allred Duke University Press 2006 Jeff From Eye to We: Allred Richard Wright’s 12 Million Black Voices, Documentary, and Pedagogy No ‘‘we’’ should be taken for granted when looking at other people’s pain.—Susan Sontag...

.... A Vice for Voices: Reading Emily Dickinson’s Correspondence. By Marietta Mess- mer. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2001. xi, 280 pp. $34.95. We all know by now, or should, that literary scholarship tends to construct its...

... AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:1 / sheet 195 of 252 artist, whose short fiction has the feel of the modern voice, with its repetition and lack of closure. In reading Chesnutt as an American writer who happens to be black, Dun...

... Voices of American Indian Assimilation and Resistance: Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah Winnemucca, and Victoria Howard. By Siobhan Senier. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 2001. xvi, 256 pp. $29.95...

...Jed Rasula © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Cinematic Modernism: Modernist Poetry and Film . By Susan McCabe. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2005. x, 284 pp. Cloth, $92.00; paper, $39.99. Voicing American Poetry: Sound and Performance from the 1920s...

...Alisha Gaines Duke University Press 2007 Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights . By Keith D. Leonard. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2006. ix, 283 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.50. New Voices on the Harlem Renaissance...

.... By Sandra Pouchet Paquet. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press. 2002. xii, 345 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95. Scarring the Black Body: Race and Representation in African American Literature. By Carol E. Henderson. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2002. xiii, 184 pp. $32.50. Voices...