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...Theo Hummer © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 A Freedom Bought with Blood: African American War Literature from the Civil War to World War II . By Jennifer C. James. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2007. 324 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $22.50. Behind the Lines...

...Timothy Sweet If the Northern press valorized women’s domestic roles, the women of Daneen Wardrop’s Civil War Nurse Narratives turned this role to a public purpose. Faced with the challenge of gaining the reader’s approval—since close contact with men’s bodies could be seen as disreputable...

...Stephen Cushman Remembering World War I in America . By Kimberly J. Lamay Licursi . Lincoln : Univ. of Nebraska Press . 2018 . xxiii, 294 pp. Cloth, $55.00 ; e-book, $55.00 . A Shadow on Our Hearts: Soldier-Poetry, Morality, and the American War in Vietnam . By Adam...

...Daniel Grausam The Covert Sphere: Secrecy, Fiction, and the National Security State . By Melley Timothy . Ithaca, NY : Cornell Univ. Press , 2012 . x , 289 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper , $26.95 . No Accident, Comrade: Chance and Design in Cold War American Narratives...

...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...

.... These letters do not usually say much about the war’s politics, for “the less educated and well-off a soldier was, the less likely he was to write about” such matters (9). Lack of political content does not necessarily mean lack of political thought, however. Rather, as Hager observes, writers mostly wrote what...

...Elizabeth Young © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic. By Julia A. Stern. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2010. xv, 330 pp. $45.00. Walt Whitman and the Civil War: America's Poet during the Lost Years of 1860– 1862. By Ted Genoways. Berkeley...

..., University of Virginia The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women’s Literature in America, 1820–1860. By Linda M. Grasso. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2002. xi, 249 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $18.95. The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the Civil War through...

...Eric Solomon © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Ashes of the Mind: War and Memory in Northern Literature, 1865–1900 . By Martin Griffin. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2009. 265 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $29.95. The Other Side of Grief: The Home Front...

...Steven Belletto From a Cold War literary and cultural studies perspective, the Korean War (1950–1953) is a distinctive moment in US cultural history. This essay proposes that there are two broad phases of Korean War literature: the first phase is work written in the 1950s and early 1960s generally...

...Daniel Pecchenino Real Phonies: Cultures of Authenticity in Post–World War II America . By Cheever Abigail . Athens : Univ. of Georgia Press . 2010 . viii , 312 pp. Cloth , $59.95 ; paper , $24.95 . Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post–World...

... is in place: African American patriarchs have replaced white ones, leaving women, youth, and the light-skinned to find their own subversive voices. Jené Lee, Duke University Elizabeth Bishop’s World War II–Cold War...

...Jesse Alemán From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature . By Fuller Randall . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2011 . x, 251 pp . $29.95 . The Literatures of the US-Mexican War: Narrative, Time, and Identity . By Rodríguez Jaime Javier...

...Christian Moraru Unvarnishing Reality: Subversive Russian and American Cold War Satire . By Maus Derek C. . Columbia : Univ. of South Carolina Press . 2011 . xvi, 247 pp. $49.95 . On Endings: American Postmodern Fiction and the Cold War . By Grausam Daniel...

... Book Reviews 885 Memories of a Lost War: American Poetic Responses to the Vietnam War.BySu- barno Chattarji. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2001. xxi, 248 pp. Cloth, $72.00; paper, $21.95...

...James Dawes Together, American Writers and the Approach of World War II and Shell Shock, Memory, and the Novel in the Wake of World War I are a significant contribution to understanding the range of ways US cultures continue to plan for and respond to violence waged abroad and at home...

...Joseph Darda The Racial Imaginary of the Cold War Kitchen: From Sokol’niki Park to Chicago’s South Side . By Kate A. Baldwin . Hanover, NH : Dartmouth College Press . 2016 . xviii, 236 pp. Cloth , $85.00 ; paper, $45.00 ; e-book, $39.99 . Reading America: Citizenship...

...Alan Nadel In conjunction, these two authors exemplify how the differend operates, Park with the nuance and precision that allows the concept to interrogate fruitfully issues of racial and national identity within the dynamics of the Cold War. Her readings are thoughtful and keenly focused...

...Avery Slater Abstract This article examines early Cold War attempts to generate poetry using computers. Set between the end of World War II and the rise of personal computing, computer-generated poetry from this period was shaped not only by artists but also the university lab, the defense...

...Kodai Abe Abstract American racial politics during the long Korean War formed what this essay terms Afro-Asian antagonism , a racial hate between African Americans and Asians (and Asian Americans). When the Truman administration issued Executive Order 9981 and proclaimed its commitment to military...