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... Elad-Bouskila Ami . Modern Palestinian Literature and Culture . Portland : Frank Cass , 1999 . 256 pp. © COPYRIGHT 2001 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2001 Srinivas Aravamudan. Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804. Durham and London: Duke University Press...

...Henry McDonald Spargo R. Clifton , The Ethics of Mourning: Grief and Responsibility in Elegiac Literature . The Johns Hopkins University Press : Baltimore , 2004 . COPYRIGHT © 2009 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2009 R. Clifton Spargo, The Ethics of Mourning: Grief...

..., and Jewish American Women's Literature and Journalism in the Progressive Era . New York : Columbia University Press . Bederman Gail . 1995 . Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880 – 1917 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press...

... bind in which Rachel's art depends upon an imperial, exploitative society. Despite this dire view of modern society, Woolf's subversion of the politics of literature not only disrupts her readers' cultural presuppositions but also posits an alternative. In particular, Woolf confronts the view...

... sculptures, and writing—to undermine the conceptual and historical basis of the nation-state and its founding subject, the people, and thereby to delegitimate the international political order and the disciplinary logic of world literature that reflects that order, both of which are predicated...

...Colleen Lye COPYRIGHT © 2007 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2007 WORKS CITED Bow Leslie . Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion: Feminism, Sexual Politics, Asian American Women's Literature . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2001 . Buck Pearl S...

...Arnold Pan, Ph.D. Review of Lye Colleen , America's Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945 ( Princeton University Press , 2005 ) COPYRIGHT © 2007 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2007 REVIEWS 145 Review...

...Wenxin Li Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature , edited by Zhou Xiaojing Najmi Samina . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2005 . 296 pages . COPYRIGHT © 2007 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2007 148 GENRE Form...

...Hua Hsu Recovered Legacies: Authority and Identity in Early Asian American Literature . Lawrence Keith Cheung Floyd , eds. Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 2005 COPYRIGHT © 2007 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2007 WORKS CITED Arkush David Lee Leo...

...Benjamin Pickford Genre, Vol. 53, No. 1 April 2020 DOI 10.1215/00166928-8210789 © 2020 by University of Oklahoma Book Review benjamin pickford Ronald Schleifer, A Political Economy of Modernism: Literature, Post- classical Economics, and the Lower Middle- Class. Cambridge: Cambridge University...

...Yun Ha Kim Works Cited Bersani Leo . 1976 . A Future for Astyanax: Character and Desire in Literature. New York : Columbia University Press . Ginsburg Michal Peled . 2015 . Portrait Stories. New York : Fordham University Press . Despite these admittedly minor...

... richly explores such tensions and apparent antinomies in Notework: Victorian Literature and Nonlinear Style , a study of the notebooks of major Victorian authors. As Reader reveals, writers’ notes—conventionally “not read as much as they are used ”—can bear their own aesthetic value, and so should...

...Edgar Garcia [email protected] Chadwick Allen , Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts , Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2022 . Copyright © 2023 by University of Oklahoma 2023 A few years ago, before the pandemic, I was invited...

...Janet Neary [email protected] Kelly Ross , Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature , New York : Oxford University Press , 2022 . Copyright © 2023 by University of Oklahoma 2023 Kelly Ross's comprehensive and dynamic account...

... threshold is triple, her selfhood liminal and unruly, dependent on yet irreducible to the relationships whose boundaries she roams. Similar formations of self are the focus of Ronjaunee Chatterjee's Feminine Singularity: The Politics of Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century Literature , a rich...

..., mad I am not—and very surely do I not dream.” 3. A similar concept is expressed by Todorov ( 1975 : 168) when he writes that “the literature of the fantastic is nothing but the bad conscience of [the] positivist era.” 4. It is worth mentioning that, following the popularization...

...Samuel Cohen At a time when the strength of the state, historical forces, and the movements of power are sometimes seen as too great for art to resist, Telling America's Story to the World reminds us that in spite of its best, even occasionally well-intentioned efforts, works of literature...

...Maurizio Ascari Does Franco Moretti's notion of “distant reading” really provide a liberating and democratic approach to literature, as it promises? Far from opening new perspectives, distant reading may actually blunt our critical faculties, inviting us to inadvertently adopt biased views...

...Linda Margarita Greenberg The epistolary genre suggests its own authenticity, asking the reader to suspend disbelief and to treat the letters that compose its pages as historical artifact. Similarly, ethnic literature is a field too often valued for its sociological truth, admired for the extent...

...Alison Turner Abstract Valeria Luiselli's Lost Children Archive (2019) explores how to find “lost children” who are forced to migrate and interrogates relationships among works of literature, archives, and archiving. Taking place contemporaneously with its publication, the novel follows Ma, Pa...