..., and the American Woman Writer of Color. By Barbara Rodríguez. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1999. viii, 228 pp. $45.00. In Autobiographical Inscriptions Rodríguez analyzes the ways seven ethnic...

..., it wasanabstractmetaphor184).However,thisliterary(and Constitutional) ‘‘abstract metaphor’’ quickly became a political weapon justi- fying both slavery and ‘‘Indian Removal and in these conclusions Gardner is most convincing. Early writers presented ‘‘stories of ‘origins’ that imagined white Americans as a race apart...

...Stephanie Foote Duke University Press 2003 Stephanie Ethnic Plotting: Henry Harland and the Foote Jewish Writer lmost no one reads Henry Harland’s novels any- 6815...

... Studies the gathering attracted scholars from all over the United States who addressed issues ranging from the Middle Passage to U.S.-Filipino relations, from Native American removal to the South as tourist destination, from the literature of Caribbean women writers to visual representations of black...

...: The Eccentric Writer in American Literature and Entertainment, 1790-1860 . By Tomc Sandra . Ann Arbor : Univ. of Michigan Press . 2012 . vi , 310 pp. Cloth , $80.00 ; e-book , $64.00 . © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Book Reviews Red Ink: Native Americans Picking up the Pen...

... 2008 General Josefina Niggli, Mexican American Writer: A Critical Biography . By Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez. Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press. 2007. x, 317 pp. Paper, $24.95. Brief Mention Editions Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate: A Tale of the Times...

... © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Sucking Salt: Caribbean Women Writers, Migration, and Survival . By Meredith M. Gadsby. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2006. vii, 225 pp. $39.95. Caribbean Women Writers and Globalization: Fictions of Independence . By Helen C. Scott...

... texts posit the possibility of surviving trauma and of healing. ‘‘The liberatory narrative reminds us Mitchell writes, ‘‘that, however trau- matic, the past is memory, the past is identity, and the past is meditation’’ (149). The writer’s nearly hidden claim is that African American women’s writing...

... sentimentality, in McKanan’s account, was a collec- tive project undertaken by many thinkers and writers, emerging in sermons by William Ellery Channing and Theodore Parker; in novels and stories by Catharine Sedgwick, Lydia Sigourney, Lydia Maria Child, Eliza Buckminster Lee, and Harriet Beecher Stowe...

... Renaissance: Emerson, Thoreau, and the Systems of Nature.By Andrew McMurry. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2003. xiii, 269 pp. $39.95. Conserving Words: How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Move- ment. By Daniel J. Philippon. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2004. xv, 373 pp. $39.95...

...Renée Bergland 2005 Writing for Immortality: Women Writers and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America . By Anne E. Boyd. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2004. x, 305 pp. $55.00; The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789...

...Yoonmee Chang 2005 Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech . By Patti Duncan. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2004. xvi, 274 pp. $34.95; Crossing Cultures: Creating Identity in Chinese and Jewish American Literature .By Judith Oster. Columbia...

... pp. $49.95. Richard Gravil’s study of the crucial debt owed by American romantic writers such as Emerson, Hawthorne, and Whitman to their English romantic fore- bears seems appropriate in this globalizing era that increasingly questions the validity of cultural categories based on nationhood...

... and as colonial subjects’’ (5). Wyss finds the precursors to many of the themes and rhetorical strategies later used by William Apess, whom she discusses in her introduc- tion and epilogue. Apess, a Pequot who became a leader of the Mashpee as a minister, writer, and political activist, has been included...

... as Native Americans and as colonial subjects’’ (5). Wyss finds the precursors to many of the themes and rhetorical strategies later used by William Apess, whom she discusses in her introduc- tion and epilogue. Apess, a Pequot who became a leader of the Mashpee as a minister, writer, and political...

...Sharon M. Harris Duke University Press 2002 Sharon M. ‘‘A New Era in Female History Harris Ninteenth-Century U.S. Women Writers The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature. By Marianne Noble. Prince- ton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2000. 240 pp. Cloth, $57.50...

... Timothy Sweet. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2001. 222 pp. $45.00. Working the Garden: American Writers and the Industrialization of Agriculture.By William Conlogue. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2001. 230 pp. Cloth...

.... Contemporary Jewish American Writers and the Multicultural Dilemma: Return of the Exiled. By Andrew Furman. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Univ. Press. 2000. ix, 214 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $19.95. Ethnic studies...

... be lost to cultural amnesia. Alan Golding, University of Louisville American Women Writers and the Nazis: Ethics and Politics in Boyle, Porter, Stafford, and Hellman. By Thomas Carl Austenfeld...

... but, rather, to something like the anxiety of influence, to the young writer’s efforts to distance himself from Emerson—thus particularly after the ‘‘gall- ing’’ experience of being satirized as an Emerson wannabe in Lowell’s...