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...Rolland Murray Literary and cultural critics have tended to interpret African American literary postmodernism as a broad threat to the cohesion of racial community. Alternatively, this essay submits that contemporary novels by Charles Johnson, Andrea Lee, and others have also construed...

... of court, and then published Randall's novel—it misstated the political nature of parody to achieve a legal benefit. By sharpening the definition of parody to include the trope of irony, I demarcate the fine line separating African American literature's historic attacks on racial stereotypes from...

...Dierdra Reber Given the cultural ascendance of visuality, what is the place of the written text within visual culture? Are there ways in which written narrative strategies privilege image over word? This essay studies how three Latin American texts move generationally toward the current era...

...Jane Elliott Focusing on Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake , this essay examines what I term “dramas of immediacy” in recent North American fiction. Postmodern novels of the 1980s and 1990s were defined in part by their interest in the way in which narrative shaped our experience, particularly...

...EVE TAVOR BANNET The Theater ofPoliteness in Charlotte Lennox's British-American Novels EVE TAVOR BANNET Charlotte Lennox's literary life is flanked like book-ends by two novels set in the 1740s, which juxtapose the conduct of British society in the metropolis...

...ANNA MAE DUANE Copyright © Novel Corp. 2000 2000 MARIANNE NOBLE, The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), pp. 240, cloth, $55.00, paper, $18.95. An Uneasy Union: Pain, Pleasure, and Power in American...

... . Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism . New York: Verso, 1983 . Andrews , William . “The Novelization of Voice in Early African American Narrative.” PMLA 105 ( 1990 ): 23 –34. Andrews , William , ed. The Oxford Frederick Douglass Reader . New York...

...WENDY WALTERS Copyright © Novel Corp. 2000 2000 SHARON PATRICIA HOLLAND, Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity (Durham: Duke University Press, 2000), pp. 235, cloth, $49.95, paper, $17.95. Death and American Culture SHARON PATRICIA...

...MADHU DUBEY Copyright © Novel Corp. 2002 2002 Works Cited Baker , Houston A. Jr . Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1987 . Bell , Bernard W. Clarence Major and His Art: Portraits of an African American Postmodernist . Chapel Hill: U...

...W. LAWRENCE HOGUE Copyright © Novel Corp. 2002 2002 Works Cited Bell , Bernard W. , ed. Clarence Major and His Art: Portraits of an African American Postmodernist . Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2001 . Bradfield , Larry D. “Beyond Mimetic Exhaustion: The Reflex...

...DANA D. NELSON AMY KAPLAN, The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003), pp. 256, cloth, $37.50. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2003 2003 American Empire AMY KAFLAN, The Anarchy of Empire in the Making...

.... Stanford: Stanford UP, 1998 . Anderson , Benedict . Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism . London: Verso, 1983 . Bercovitch , Sacvan , ed. The Cambridge History of American Literature. 1590–1820 . Vol. I . New York: Cambridge UP, 1994...

... to Thomas McKean. 31 Aug . 1813 . The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States . Ed. Charles Francis Adams. Vol. 10 . Boston: Little, 1856 . 62 –63. Allen , Gay Wilson , and Roger Asselineau. St. John de Crèvecoeur: The Life of an American Farmer . New York: Viking...

... of the Novel . New York: Oxford UP, 1987 . Barnes , Elizabeth . States of Sympathy: Seduction and Democracy in the American Novel . New York: Columbia UP, 1997 . Berman , Carolyn Vellenga . Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery . Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2006...

...RACHEL COLE Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Works Cited Agamben , Giorgio . Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy . Ed. and trans. Agamben , Giorgio . Stanford: Stanford UP, 1999 . Barrish , Philip . American Literary Realism, Critical Theory...

...EZRA TAWIL Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Works Cited Alonso , Carlos J. The Spanish American Regional Novel: Modernity and Autochthony . New York: Cambridge UP, 1990 . Ashfield , Andrew and Peter de Bella, eds. The Sublime: A Reader in British Eighteenth-Century...

...AMANDA EMERSON Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Works Cited Axelrod , Alan . Charles Brockden Brown: An American Tale . Austin: U of Texas P, 1983 . Barnard , Philip , Mark L. Kamrath, and Stephen Shapiro, eds. Revising Charles Brockden Brown: Culture, Politics...

...JONATHAN ELMER Copyright © Novel Corp. 2006 2006 Works Cited Alstyne , Richard W. Van . The American Empire: Its Historical Pattern and Evolution . London: Routledge, 1960 . Baucom , Ian . Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History...

...: Tauris, 2008 . Duncan , James , and Nancy Duncan. Landscapes of Privilege: The Politics of the Aesthetic in an American Suburb . London: Routledge, 2003 . Hones , Sheila , and Julia Leyda. “Geographies of American Studies.” American Quarterly 57 . 4 ( 2005 ): 19 –32. Hsu...