...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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

... are exquisite, with an attention to detail whose labor always scales. His readings give sight of disciplinary perspectives that complicate facile conceptions of poetry, literature, indigeneity, colonialism, historiography, and research itself. The conventions of a book review prevent me from giving extensive...

...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...

...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...

..., the only people who reside there are dead, and they do not engage in social discourse. Of course in representations of the cemetery — a graveyard literature — one may encounter the “speaking dead,” but I do not claim that what amounts to a trope for the dead would constitute public space. Such texts...

...James Arnett; Angela Wright This essay takes a close look at the way Alain Mabanckou positions himself vis-à-vis discipline and market by way of his negotiations of a range of terms—French, francophone, postcolonial, and world literature—and the ways that such disciplinarity and appeal might...

... for reading this alternative history of the novel. By focusing on the provisionality of literature, which Lee calls a “half-art,” this essay argues that literature’s reference to an external context provides a point of departure for thinking about women’s disempowerment and vulnerability in late nineteenth...

...Mitchum Huehls Abstract “The New Opioid Novel” explores a collection of contemporary US fiction published in the 2010s that tackles the current opioid crisis. Differentiating these new opioid novels from earlier opioid literature, opioid memoirs, and other contemporary drug literature, this essay...

... in Caribbean women's literature. It brings with it assumptions about individual subjectivity, progress, and socialization that underlie modes of justification for colonialist and misogynist practice and yet can be used to expose the shortcomings of models of development and to foreground the priorities...