...Maurice Lee Copyright © 2006 Regents of the University of Colorado 2006 A fter the A m erican Enligh tenm ent M a u r ic e L ee B ashing the Enlightenment used to be easier. Horkheimer, Adorno, and Foucault condemned enlightenm ent instrumentality. Derrida and Rorty pointed to the fu tility o...

... permission to use archival material. Gertrude Stein's concern w ith authori­ al privacy in The M aking o f Am ericans (1925) is o f a different order. The narrator of this text is less concerned w ith concealing aspects of the author's identity than w ith elim inating all the distractions of identity.This...

...Frances Smith Foster R e g e n e ratin g a n d re d e e m in g A m e r ic a n L it e r a r y Stud ies F r a n c e s S m it h F o s t e r A merican Lazarus: Religion and the Rise o f African-Am erican and Native Am erican Literatures Is one example of several impressive books that turn lit­ erary...

... of these collections, Am erican Studies, Ecocriticism and Citizen­ ship (2013), Philip Deloria finds Charles Darw in's famous words about a "tangled bank" in On Origins o f Species (1859) an apt and even earlier use of roots systems as a metaphor for thinking about the emergence or intersections of new academic fields...

...). He is currently working on a m anuscript describing how friendship can serve as a helpful model for the human relationship to the rest of nature. La w re n c e Buell is Powell M. Cabot Professor of Am erican Literature Emeritus at Harvard University. His books include The Environm ental Im agination...

... In te rn a tio n alism Fem inism : W om en W riters o f the Black Left, 1945-1995 (U niversity of Illinois Press, 2012). Her essays on race and radical culture have appeared in A m erican Literature, A m erican Q uarterly, Studies in the L iterary Im agination, and A fro Asia: R evolutionary P olitical...

...Michael Elliott Copyright © 2006 Regents of the University of Colorado 2006 A n O ld H is t o r ic is m , R e b o r n M ic h a e l A . E l l io t t Instead of speaking directly to the central arguments or texts of Am erican Lazarus, I w ill begin by quoting two statements Brooks makes about...

... d META/DATA: A D ig ita l Poetics, w ill be published by The M IT Press in 2007. Sara Blair teaches in the D epartm ent o f English and the Program in A m erican C ulture at the U niversity o f Michigan. Her recent w ork focuses on the engagem ent o f tw entieth-century w rit­ ers w ith photography...

... that placed the United States at the center o f an Am erican archipelago. It was a nation that could gather in its hem ispheric "n e ig h b o rs." As I w ill fu rth e r suggest, in the very ways leading cartographies coded space, they coordinated political fram es for inclusion and exclusion. National maps...

... in th e th irte e n th chapter o f his book title d , iro n ic a lly eno ug h , "T h e C o lo r Line in New York." The "w h ite -skin n e d " Am erican c o m m u n ity th a t Riis proclaim s as his ow n was, at the tim e o f his pronouncem ents, a contested and shifting category o f national privilege...

... meets along the m ig rant labor circuits o f the Am erican W est in the early 114 E n g lish Lan g u ag e No tes 52.2 Fa ll / W inter 2 0 1 4 1930s. M any o f his crossings w ith A sia n-im m igra nt and M exican-origin w orkers spur him to reflect on the state of loneliness, fear, hunger or desperation...

... erican War in Cuba, Camp Life, and the Return o f the Soldiers, one o f hun­ dreds o f p h o to g ra p h ic a lly illu stra te d books a b o u t th e U. S. triu m p h o ve r th e d e cre p it Spanish E m pire in th e C aribbean. H e m m e n t pro cla im s: "T h e cam era is like th e gun o f the w ar...

... cartographies o f dissent, then the surveying and parceling o f the landscape of the Am erican W est as a rectilinear grid is the cartographic hegem ony o f the United States. Jefferson devised this grid in 1790,2 as part of the u n i­ form system of weights and measures demanded by congress; the grid survey...

... to Am erican Lazarus: Religion and the Rise o f African-Am erican and Native Am erican Literatures. In w riting American Lazarus, m y goal was to chronicle foundation­ al chapters in African American and Native American literary history w ith the same rigor and the same serious regard for religion...

... seems to me shrewd and persuasive, her recom­ mendations for redressing it m ostly sound. Am erican Lazarus convinces me that if we are to take the archive of early Native American and African American w riting as we find it, we m ust take its religious investments seriously rather than reductively.The...

... incor­ poration of the villagers o f W adi al-U youn in to a state forged in the profane alliance between a po w e rfu l local dynasty, its Desert Arm y, and Am erican oil interests, the novel, through its very novelization o f a traditionally oral culture, also reflects such incorporation as a fea­ ture...

...-language literature fro m the Caribbean and the Philippines. His research focuses on the role o f the lite rary in im agining w o rld system s. W es A tk in so n is assistant professor o f English at Austin Peay State U niversity. His w ork focuses on nineteenth-century American literature, early Am erican...

... contextuallze Giovanni's view of Am ericans' odd tem porality by noting Its rearticu­ lation in Baldwin's other texts. In "N othing Personal" (1964), Baldwin's observations about his com patriots parallel Giovanni's reading of American time: "We have, as It seems to me, a very curious sense o f reality," he...

... experience and literary fo rm in nineteenth-century realism. Jo h n C lab o rn is a graduate student at the U nive rsity o f Illinois, Urbana-Cham paign. He is currently w o rkin g on a dissertation called "E cology o f the C olor Line: Nature, Race, and Labor in A m erican Literature, 1895-1941." His...

... long enough to be sure w e enter the rig ht room . W hen racial signs w ere superim posed on gender signs, as they w ere fo r m uch of the tw e n tie th century across much o f the A m erican south (as w ell as swathes o f the m id ­ w est and extended portions of both coasts), they not only solicited...