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...Pat Cadigan Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Pat Cadigan Chapter 14, Synners ^This is an excerpt from a novel called Synners, which is, to summarize as simply as possible, about the entertainment indus­ try in the future. You ve probably already heard many times about how...

...Don DeLillo Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Don DeLillo Opposites, Chapter 10 of Ratner s Star The abiding presence in Ratner s Star (a novel loaded with cameo appearances by characters at once bizarre, funny, and scary) is fourteen-yearold Billy Twillig, winner of the first...

...Lewis Patton The Dissidence of Dissent. “The Monthly Repository,” 1806–1838, Under the Editorship of Robert Aspland, W. J. Fox, R. H. Horne, and Leigh Hunt. With a Chapter on Religious Periodicals, 1700–1825 . By Mineka Francis E. . Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press...

...Joel G. Colton French Corporative Theory, 1789-1948: A Chapter in the History of Ideas . By Elbow Matthew H. . New York : Columbia University Press , 1953 . Pp. 222 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 426 The South Atlantic Quarterly ticularly interesting...

...Carl L. Anderson Pursuing Melville 1940–1980: Chapters and Essays . By Sealts Merton M. Jr. Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press , 1982 . Pp. xi , 419 . $27.50 . Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 360 The South Atlantic Quarterly points to the political...

...Lane Cooper Copyright © 1912 by Duke University Press 1912 Ancient and Modern Letters Lane Cooper President of the New York Theta Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at Cornell University* Phi Beta Kappa is a Greek letter society. Beta and Kappa, B and K, the second two constituents of its name...

... patterns within the general structure of prejudice, with a specific focus on the function of prejudice. As a resource to encounter this theorizing of prejudice, I turn to Adorno’s “Prejudice in the Interview Material” (chapter 16 of The Authoritarian Personality ). This is one of several solo-authored...

...Joy James This examination of “Concerning Violence,” the first chapter of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth , reflects on the rebellion of the native intellectual against colonialism and racism. This essay argues that the possibilities of political transformation through struggles against...

...Alfred J. López Throughout his writings, what Frantz Fanon calls the colonized subject’s “reality” is really his lived experience. That experience, especially in the latter chapters of Black Skin, White Masks , alternates between outright invisibility and the “crushing objecthood” of being seen...

... Espinas drafted his pioneering work Animal Societies (1877) in the wake of a period of pronounced national failure. In what was widely recognized as the “first chapter” in French sociology, Espinas's work signaled a growing struggle in the French university that echoed a larger struggle in the early Third...

... political scientists tend to develop. This chapter uses hip-hop lyricism to measure how the concept of theft appears in the political philosophy of Malcolm X against the way this strategy for resource redistribution is discussed in the films The Departed and Scarface as a way to enrich political theory...

...Samantha Rose Hill This essay considers the theme of thought patterns in Adorno’s chapter “Politics and Economics in the Interview Material” in The Authoritarian Personality . Looking at the relationship between the culture industry and the successful dissemination of fascist propaganda, I distill...

... of their humanity—is at an “impasse,” in the way that Lauren Berlant uses the term. That is, the fantasies of a fully realized liberal humanism seem increasingly costly, while alternatives feel out of reach. Turning to J. M. Coetzee's novel Elizabeth Costello , specifically its chapters on the lives of animals...

...Robyn Wiegman Who can forget Rachel Doležal—the Africana Studies instructor and head of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP who was outed in 2015 as “born white to white parents” after years of presenting herself as a light‐skinned Black woman. By taking up the controversies that have followed Doležal...

... that the historian should let blacks speak for themselves. Although reli­ Book Reviews 139 ance on black newspapers is prominent in Black New Orleans, at times the sources used are too much those of white observers (see especially Chapters 1, 2, and 3). Chapter 1, The Negro in Antebellum New Orleans, is an effort...

... the question satisfactorily. I can say, however, that in my opinion it is a livelier and more penetrating book than Jamison s, with which of course it must necessarily be com­ pared. The chapter on Wordsworth is first-rate, treating in detail the influence of the elder poet on Arnold and examining with great...

.... There are an introductory chapter, essays on Cooper, James, Howells, Wharton, Sinclair Lewis, Fitzgerald, John O Hara, John P. Marquand, James Gould Cozzens, and Louis Auchincloss, and a final chapter on the future of the novel of manners. The chapter on Wharton is the keystone of the whole structure, since she...

... cilitated by the numbering of the documents and chapters. The table of contents lists each item under its respective heading and also performs the useful function of sorting out all of the documents into their proper chrono­ logical order. There is, however, no index. E. Malcolm Carroll. The Federalists...

.... The world shrinks. It will eventually be unified. What remains to be seen (through eyes that now bug out with mortal terror) is whether the last chapter will be written in blood or in Quink. A master of irony, the author spares none who would raise objection to his thesis. The book is not so much...

... the various stag­ ings of Lawrence s plays and speaks with authority about them. His chapter on the theater pieces is noteworthy, providing an overview of the theater of the time and of Lawrence s plays in relation to it, and exploring the movement into comic and poetic drama. The discussions of St. Mawr...