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...Jordan Alexander Stein © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 The Word and Its Witness: The Spiritualization of American Realism . By Gregory S. Jackson. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2009. xiv, 409 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $29.00. Believing Again: Doubt and Faith...

... Eversley, Baruch College, City University of New York Thoreau’s Ecstatic Witness. By Alan D. Hodder. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 2001. xix, 346 pp. $35.00. Thomas Merton...

... pedophilic by early interpreters of his work. Moon instead argues that Darger was, like many popular cultural artists of his time, an avid witness to and critic of the violence of the twentieth century—from global warfare to the distinctly gendered terror he depicts via his protagonists, the Vivian Girls...

...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...

... personhood before the law and the mechanisms by which some—especially women testifying about the experience of sexual harassment and assault—are discredited and become “tainted witnesses.” Like Perry and Fraiman, Gilmore explores formal antidotes, in particular how life writing can provide a more elastic...

...Koritha Mitchell © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Lynching Photographs . By Dora Apel and Shawn Michelle Smith. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2007. 102 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95. Witnessing Lynching: American Writers Respond . Ed. Anne P...

... and archetypes. Simultaneously, it insists that readers can witness more than colonial desires. Tracing breaks and ruptures in the Narrative and contemporary publications, it demonstrates how Kalina and Lokono silences place clear limits on what Stedman and others were allowed to know. Reading these instances...

..., Slavery, and Gender in Contemporary Black Women’s Fiction. By Angelyn Mitchell. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2002. xiv, 170 pp. Cloth, $59.00; paper, $20.00. Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony. By Dwight A. McBride. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2002. xvi...

... narrative texts and their film adaptations suggests that the oculocentrism of such accounts has elided the significant role of sound, both verbal and nonverbal, in the expression and witnessing of physical pain. Instances of what was classified in the nineteenth century as sensation literature, these three...

.... The essay demonstrates that the period’s photographic apprehension of the poor haunts literary depictions. Tracing rich, productive exchanges between nineteenth-century visual and literary texts, it argues that the photographic project of bearing witness to urban poverty helped authorize the emergence...

... writing, produced not simply on the land but through the medium of the land itself , while recording an activist witnessing of historical and ongoing attempts at its erasure. © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Chadwick Serpentine Figures, Sinuous Relations: Allen Thematic Geometry...

... different from the white-authored Southern histories that preceded it. Indeed, A Negro Looks bears witness to the myriad ways in which Brown’s own mobility is constrained within the segregated spaces of the South, including its official monuments and markers. This is an ethnography that, in part, dramatizes...

...Nicole M. Merola This essay considers Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis (2003) as a literary act of witnessing that diagnoses the devastating socioecological footprint of globalized cybercapitalism. Employing Marxist and ecocritical accounts of materiality and environment as analytic categories, Merola...

... witness. The museum’s participatory exhibits cue the structures of feeling that linger in the American cultural imagi- nary, placing the visitor precisely at the point where the aesthetic and the political intersect. But in the end, do the exhibits present, like King’s speech, an unfinished history...

... in the congressmen’s letter and Wakefield’s text has obvious implications for our under- standing of the vexed relationship between testimony and history, between individual and collective recall. At the heart of that relation- ship is a contest for the authority of the witness. Officials rejected easterners’ calls...

... . 7 Occom’s wit has most often been identified as a response to colonial frustrations. See Elliott 1994 : 245; Peyer 1997 : 78–79; Wigginton 2008 : 32; Silverman 2010 : 71–72; Stevens 2013 : 385; Vance 2016 : 159; Calcaterra 2018 : 77. 6 See, for example, Occom 2006c : 251, 412; Sobuck...

... beings as fractions. Those excluded have witnessed their exclusion more vividly than those included have witnessed that privilege. When Harriet Jacobs ([1861] 2018 ) looked through the small hole she named the “loophole of retreat,” she wanted fresh air and a glimpse of her children. What she witnessed...

... DeLombard’s ‘‘ ‘Eye-Witness to the Cruelty’: Southern Violence and Northern Testimony in Frederick Douglass’s 1845 Narrative De- Lombard highlights the ‘‘visual power of the injured black body’’ in abolitionist literature...

.... Of particular interest to me is the recurrence of the incident in the British imagination at mid-century, as the first Anglo-Dutch war broke out. It is at this moment, some thirty years after the events took place, that Amboyna goes global. In the 1650s, we witness the rebroadcast of the incident in the London...

..., and literary production in antebellum America, it may do so not just through the haunting final image of Babo as silent posthumous witness but, rather, in the excessive, contradictory verbosity of its assembled legal and literary texts.15 As Melville’s literary salvage of Delano’s Narrative...