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White Women Writing White: H.D., Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, and Whiteness; The Color of Sex: Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy; White Diaspora: The Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American Novel

Diane McKay
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 207–209.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-207
Published: 01 March 2003
... the specialist and nonspecialist, it will undoubtedly shape future criticism in the field. Elisabeth Brown, University of Southern California White Women Writing White: H.D., Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Women Writing <span class="search-highlight">White</span>: H.D., Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, and <span class="search-highlight">Whiteness</span>; The Color of Sex: <span class="search-highlight">Whiteness</span>, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Supremacy; <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Diaspora: The Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American Novel View PDF for article titled, <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Women Writing <span class="search-highlight">White</span>: H.D., Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, and <span class="search-highlight">Whiteness</span>; The Color of Sex: <span class="search-highlight">Whiteness</span>, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Supremacy; <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Diaspora: The Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American Novel
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Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy

Stephen Knadler
American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 213–216.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7335633
Published: 01 March 2019
...Stephen Knadler Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects . By Stephanie Li . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2015 . 299 pp. Cloth, $73.00 ; e-book available. Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World . By Cassander...
View articletitled, Playing in the <span class="search-highlight">White</span>: Black Writers, <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Subjects Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination Black for a Day: <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Fantasies of Race and Empathy View PDF for article titled, Playing in the <span class="search-highlight">White</span>: Black Writers, <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Subjects Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination Black for a Day: <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Fantasies of Race and Empathy
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Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness; The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880–1940

Brad Evans
American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 859–861.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-058
Published: 01 December 2009
...Brad Evans © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness . By Matt Wray. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2006. 213 pp. Paper, $21.95. The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880–1940 . By Julian B...
View articletitled, Not Quite <span class="search-highlight">White</span>: <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Trash and the Boundaries of <span class="search-highlight">Whiteness</span>; The Heart of <span class="search-highlight">Whiteness</span>: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880–1940 View PDF for article titled, Not Quite <span class="search-highlight">White</span>: <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Trash and the Boundaries of <span class="search-highlight">Whiteness</span>; The Heart of <span class="search-highlight">Whiteness</span>: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880–1940
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The Thin White Line: Veterans and the White Racial Politics of Creative Writing

Joseph Darda
American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 783–810.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7917308
Published: 01 December 2019
...Joseph Darda Abstract This essay considers how the creative writing workshop transformed the white Vietnam vet into a minority writer. The MFA system, which organized the group-based politics of post–civil rights American literature, originated as a space geared toward white combat veterans. Some...
View articletitled, The Thin <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Line: Veterans and the <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Racial Politics of Creative Writing View PDF for article titled, The Thin <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Line: Veterans and the <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Racial Politics of Creative Writing
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The Whiteness of the White

John Marsh
American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 563–572.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10084568
Published: 01 September 2022
...John Marsh [email protected] Poverty Politics: Poor Whites in Contemporary Southern Writing . By Sarah Robertson . Oxford : Univ. of Mississippi Press . 2019 . xxii, 188 pp. Cloth, $99.00 ; paper, $30.00 ; e-book available. Peculiar Whiteness: Racial Anxiety and Poor Whites...
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Personal Property: Wives, White Slaves, and the Market in Women

Eric Henderson
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 872–873.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-872
Published: 01 December 2001
... Christianity Apess disavows his ethnicity. In chapters concerned with white and African Ameri- can women (among them, Catharine Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sojourner Truth, Maria Stewart, Frances Willard, Amanda Berry Smith, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton), Haynes argues for the political efficacy...
View articletitled, Personal Property: Wives, <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Slaves, and the Market in Women View PDF for article titled, Personal Property: Wives, <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Slaves, and the Market in Women
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The South in Black and White: Race, Sex, and Literature in the 1940s

Barbara Eckstein
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 879–880.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-879
Published: 01 December 2001
... that in accepting Christianity Apess disavows his ethnicity. In chapters concerned with white and African Ameri- can women (among them, Catharine Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sojourner Truth, Maria Stewart, Frances Willard, Amanda Berry Smith, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton), Haynes argues for the political...
View articletitled, The South in Black and <span class="search-highlight">White</span>: Race, Sex, and Literature in the 1940s View PDF for article titled, The South in Black and <span class="search-highlight">White</span>: Race, Sex, and Literature in the 1940s
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Post-slavery Literatures in the Americas: Family Portraits in Black and White; The African Diaspora and Autobiographics: Skeins of Self and Skin

Zita Nunes
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 885–887.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-063
Published: 01 December 2006
...Zita Nunes Duke University Press 2006 Postslavery Literatures in the Americas: Family Portraits in Black and White . By George B. Handley. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2000. x, 231 pp. Paper, $19.50. The African Diaspora and Autobiographics: Skeins of Self...
View articletitled, Post-slavery Literatures in the Americas: Family Portraits in Black and <span class="search-highlight">White</span>; The African Diaspora and Autobiographics: Skeins of Self and Skin View PDF for article titled, Post-slavery Literatures in the Americas: Family Portraits in Black and <span class="search-highlight">White</span>; The African Diaspora and Autobiographics: Skeins of Self and Skin
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Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction; Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku; Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature; Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance

American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 177–180.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-070
Published: 01 March 2008
... American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku . By Yoshinobu Hakutani. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2006. ix, 251 pp. Cloth, $41.95; compact disc, $9.95. Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature . By John K. Young...
View articletitled, Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction; Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku; Black Writers, <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature; Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance View PDF for article titled, Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction; Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku; Black Writers, <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature; Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance
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American Indian Literary Nationalism; Muting White Noise: Native American and European American Novel Traditions

American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 185–187.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-073
Published: 01 March 2008
... © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 American Indian Literary Nationalism . By Jace Weaver, Craig S. Womack, and Robert Warrior. Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press. 2006. xxii, 272 pp. Paper, $19.95. Muting White Noise: Native American and European American Novel...
View articletitled, American Indian Literary Nationalism; Muting <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Noise: Native American and European American Novel Traditions View PDF for article titled, American Indian Literary Nationalism; Muting <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Noise: Native American and European American Novel Traditions
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Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing the White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black Jewish Imaginary

Sonnet Retman
American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 402–405.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2646928
Published: 01 June 2014
... . By Schlund-Vials Cathy J. . Philadelphia : Temple Univ. Press . 2011 . xix , 224 pp. Paper , $24.95 . The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black Jewish Imaginary . By Harrison-Kahan Lori . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers Univ. Press . 2011 . 229 pp. Paper , $24.95 . ©...
View articletitled, Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing the <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black Jewish Imaginary View PDF for article titled, Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing the <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black Jewish Imaginary
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A Web of Words: The Great Dialogue of Southern Literature Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002 Romances of the White Man’s Burden: Race, Empire, and the Plantation in American Literature, 1880-1936

Coleman Hutchison
American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 414–416.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2646964
Published: 01 June 2014
... Melanie . Athens : Univ. of Georgia Press . 2008 . xiv , 263 pp. Cloth , $71.95 ; paper , $25.95 . Romances of the White Man’s Burden: Race, Empire, and the Plantation in American Literature, 1880-1936 . By Wells Jeremy . Nashville, TN : Vanderbilt Univ. Press . 2011 . x , 238 pp...
View articletitled, A Web of Words: The Great Dialogue of Southern Literature Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002 Romances of the <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Man’s Burden: Race, Empire, and the Plantation in American Literature, 1880-1936 View PDF for article titled, A Web of Words: The Great Dialogue of Southern Literature Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002 Romances of the <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Man’s Burden: Race, Empire, and the Plantation in American Literature, 1880-1936
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Real Folks: Race and Genre in the Great Depression Darkening Mirrors: Imperial Representation in Depression-Era African American Performance the Angelic Mother and the Predatory Seductress: Poor White Women in Southern Literature of the Great Depression

Habiba Ibrahim
American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 836–838.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2811658
Published: 01 December 2014
... . By Batiste Stephanie Leigh . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2011 . xii , 326 pp. Cloth , $94.95 ; paper , $25.95 . The Angelic Mother and the Predatory Seductress: Poor White Women in Southern Literature of the Great Depression . By Lancaster Ashley Craig . Baton Rouge : Louisiana...
View articletitled, Real Folks: Race and Genre in the Great Depression Darkening Mirrors: Imperial Representation in Depression-Era African American Performance the Angelic Mother and the Predatory Seductress: Poor <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Women in Southern Literature of the Great Depression View PDF for article titled, Real Folks: Race and Genre in the Great Depression Darkening Mirrors: Imperial Representation in Depression-Era African American Performance the Angelic Mother and the Predatory Seductress: Poor <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Women in Southern Literature of the Great Depression
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Panic! Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction; The March of Spare Time: The Problem and Promise of Leisure in the Great Depression; The Twilight of the Middle Class: Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work

Claudia Stokes
American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 835–838.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-047
Published: 01 December 2007
... in the Great Depression . By Susan Currell. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2005. 235 pp. $39.95. The Twilight of the Middle Class: Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work . By Andrew Hoberek. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2005. x, 158 pp. Cloth, $57.50; paper...
View articletitled, Panic! Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction; The March of Spare Time: The Problem and Promise of Leisure in the Great Depression; The Twilight of the Middle Class: Post-World War II American Fiction and <span class="search-highlight">White</span>-Collar Work View PDF for article titled, Panic! Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction; The March of Spare Time: The Problem and Promise of Leisure in the Great Depression; The Twilight of the Middle Class: Post-World War II American Fiction and <span class="search-highlight">White</span>-Collar Work
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Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America

Alan Nadel
American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 596–598.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2296713
Published: 01 September 2013
...Alan Nadel Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” . By Foley Barbara . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2010 . xi, 386 pp. Cloth , $99.95 ; paper , $29.95 . A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion...
View articletitled, Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” A Nation of Outsiders: How the <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America View PDF for article titled, Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” A Nation of Outsiders: How the <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America
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Dreaming Black/Writing White: The Hagar Myth in American Cultural History

Malini Johar Schueller
American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 194–195.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-1-194
Published: 01 March 2001
... whites and Indians and using the ghostlike imagery to suggest their doomed nature. Bergland also discusses the works of Mary Rowlandson, Charles Brockden Brown, Philip Freneau, Washington Irving, William Apess, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. In a brief conclusion, she places Leslie Marmon Silko against...
View articletitled, Dreaming Black&#x2F;Writing <span class="search-highlight">White</span>: The Hagar Myth in American Cultural History View PDF for article titled, Dreaming Black&#x2F;Writing <span class="search-highlight">White</span>: The Hagar Myth in American Cultural History
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The Scenes of Seeing: Frances Benjamin Johnston and Visualizations of the “Indian” in Black, White, and Native Educational Contexts

Tova Cooper
American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 509–545.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1339854
Published: 01 September 2011
... educational ideology. By elucidating how the image of the “Indian” functions as a shifting signifier in these photos, this essay offers insight into how educational institutions for black, white, and native students taught them to acquire different subject positions in the process of adopting U.S. citizenship...
View articletitled, The Scenes of Seeing: Frances Benjamin Johnston and Visualizations of the “Indian” in Black, <span class="search-highlight">White</span>, and Native Educational Contexts View PDF for article titled, The Scenes of Seeing: Frances Benjamin Johnston and Visualizations of the “Indian” in Black, <span class="search-highlight">White</span>, and Native Educational Contexts
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“This Alarming Generosity”: White Elephants and the Logic of the Gift

Ross Bullen
American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 747–773.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1437207
Published: 01 December 2011
...Ross Bullen In this essay, Bullen examines the literary and cultural history of the term white elephant —a phrase that refers to a burdensome object that is impossible to sell or give away—by tracing its origin in the American lexicon to the United States' diplomatic relations with Siam...
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Black and White Women's Travel Narratives: Antebellum Explorations; Trafficking Subjects: The Politics of Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America

John M. Freiermuth
American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 389–391.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-007
Published: 01 June 2006
...John M. Freiermuth 2006 Black and White Women's Travel Narratives: Antebellum Explorations . Cheryl J. Fish. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2004. xiii, 183 pp. $59.95. Trafficking Subjects: The Politics of Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America . By Mark Simpson...
View articletitled, Black and <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Women&#x27;s Travel Narratives: Antebellum Explorations; Trafficking Subjects: The Politics of Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America View PDF for article titled, Black and <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Women&#x27;s Travel Narratives: Antebellum Explorations; Trafficking Subjects: The Politics of Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America
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Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination; Abolition's Public Sphere; Blood and Irony: Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937

Lauren Coats
American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 617–619.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-029
Published: 01 September 2006
.... of Minnesota Press. 2003. xl, 331 pp. Cloth, $63.95; paper, $22.95. Blood and Irony: Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937 . By Sarah E. Gardner. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2004. x, 341 pp. $39.95. Book Reviews ‘‘A Hideous Monster of the Mind American...
View articletitled, Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination; Abolition&#x27;s Public Sphere; Blood and Irony: Southern <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Women&#x27;s Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937 View PDF for article titled, Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination; Abolition&#x27;s Public Sphere; Blood and Irony: Southern <span class="search-highlight">White</span> Women&#x27;s Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937