Houston A. Baker, Jr.

Preface: Unsettling Blackness
American Literature 72(2): 243-247 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-243 [PDF]  

Articles

Cristina L. Ruotolo

James Weldon Johnson and the Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Musician
American Literature 72(2): 249-274 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-249 [PDF]  

Joel B. Peckham

Jean Toomer's Cane: Self as Montage and the Drive toward Integration
American Literature 72(2): 275-290 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-275 [PDF]  

Daylanne English

W. E. B. DuBois's Family Crisis
American Literature 72(2): 291-319 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-291 [PDF]  

Lawrence P. Jackson

The Birth of the Critic: The Literary Friendship of Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright
American Literature 72(2): 321-355 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-321 [PDF]  

John Lowney

Langston Hughes and the "Nonsense" of Bebop
American Literature 72(2): 357-385 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-357 [PDF]  

Arlene R. Keizer

The Geographyof the Apocalypse: Incest, Mythology, and the Fall of Washington Cityin Carolivia Herron's Thereafter Johnnie
American Literature 72(2): 387-416 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-387 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Elizabeth Barnes

Providence Tales and the Birth of American Literature
By James D. Hartman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 1999. xii, 202 pp. $38.50.
American Literature 72(2): 417-418 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-417 [PDF]  

Dan Williams

Benjamin Franklin and His Gods
By Kerry S. Walters. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 1999. xii, 213 pp. Cloth, $44.95; paper, $18-95.
American Literature 72(2): 418-419 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-418 [PDF]  

David Mazel

A Wider View of the Universe: Henry Thoreau's Study of Nature
By Robert Kuhn McGregor. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 1997. xiv, 247 pp. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $16.95.
American Literature 72(2): 419-420 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-419 [PDF]  

Margaret B. Moore

Hawthorne's Fuller Mystery
By Thomas R. Mitchell. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 1998. ix, 318 pp. $39.95.
American Literature 72(2): 420-421 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-420 [PDF]  

Joel Pfister

Mesmerism and Hawthorne: Mediums of American Romance
By Samuel Chase Coale. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 1998. iv, 197 pp. $34.95.
American Literature 72(2): 421-423 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-421 [PDF]  

Kendall A. Johnson

The Sign of the Cannibal: Melville and the Making of a Postcolonial Reader
By Geoffrey Sanborn. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 1998. xvi, 254 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $17.95.
American Literature 72(2): 423-424 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-423 [PDF]  

Sandra Maletic

A Concordance to Herman Melville's "Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land"
Ed. Larry Edward Wegener. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen. 1997. 4 vols. clxxvii, 1817 pp. $119.95.
American Literature 72(2): 424-425 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-424 [PDF]  

Terence Whalen

Collected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 5, Writings in "The Southern Literary Messenger": Nonfictional Prose
Ed. Burton R. Pollin and Joseph V. Ridgely. New York: Gordian Press. 1997. x, 406 pp. $75.00.
American Literature 72(2): 425-426 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-425 [PDF]  

James Applewhite

Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself
By Jerome Loving. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 1999. xvi, 568 pp. $35.00.
American Literature 72(2): 426-427 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-426 [PDF]  

Jeffrey Steinbrink

Achilles and the Tortoise: Mark Twain's Fictions
By Clark Griffith. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 1998. x, 284 pp. $34.95.
American Literature 72(2): 427-428 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-427 [PDF]  

Linda Tate

Unveiling Kate Chopin
By Emily Toth. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 1999. xxii, 290 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $18.00.
American Literature 72(2): 429-430 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-429 [PDF]  

John G. Cawelti

Literature at War, 1914-1940:Representing the Time of Greatness in Germany
By Wolfgang G. Natter. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 1999. 280 pp. $35.00.
American Literature 72(2): 430-431 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-430 [PDF]  

Charles Scruggs

To Make a New Race: Gurdjieff, Toomer, and the Harlem Renaissance
By Jon Woodson. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 1999. x, 202 pp. Cloth, S45.00; paper, $18.00.
American Literature 72(2): 431 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-431 [PDF]  

Richard C. Moreland

Faulkner in Cultural Context; Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1995
Ed. Donald M. Kartiganer and Ann J. Abadie. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 1997. xvi, 316 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $22.00.
American Literature 72(2): 432-433 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-432 [PDF]  

Andrew Ross

The Seventies Now: Culture as Surveillance
By Stephen Paul Miller. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 1999. xii, 413 pp. $59.95.
American Literature 72(2): 433-434 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-433 [PDF]  

Michael Kammen

The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope
By Andrew Delbanco. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 1999. viii, 143 pp. $19.95.
American Literature 72(2): 435-436 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-435 [PDF]  

Dana Phillips

Sustainable Poetry: Four American Ecopoets
By Leonard M. Scigaj. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky. 1999. xx, 311 pp. $34.95.
American Literature 72(2): 436-437 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-436 [PDF]  

Robert O'Brien Hokanson

Gender and the Poetics of Excess: Moments of Brocade
By Karen Jackson Ford. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 1997. x, 272 pp. $45.00.
American Literature 72(2): 437-438 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-437 [PDF]  

Mary Titus

The Wilderness Within: American Women Writers and Spiritual Quest; Artist and Attic: A Study of Poetic Space in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing
By Kristina K. Groover. Fayetteville: Univ. of Arkansas Press. 1999. vi, 134 pp. Cloth, $26.00; paper, $16.00.
By Hsin Ying Chi. Lanham, Md.: Univ. Press of America. 1999. 169 pp. Cloth, $39.00; paper, $24.50.
American Literature 72(2): 438-439 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-438 [PDF]  

Carole K. Doreski

American Body Politics: Race, Gender, and Black Literary Renaissance
By Felipe Smith. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 1998. xvii, 419 pp. $48.00.
American Literature 72(2): 439-440 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-439 [PDF]  

Elizabeth B. House

Reclaiming Community in Contemporary African American Fiction
By Philip Page. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 1999. 256 pp. $18.00.
American Literature 72(2): 441 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-441 [PDF]  

Robert Reid-Pharr

The Inhuman Race: The Racial Grotesque in American Literature and Culture
By Leonard Cassuto. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 1997. xix, 289 pp. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $17.50.
American Literature 72(2): 442-443 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-442 [PDF]  

Margarete C. Berg

Cultural Orphans in America
By Diana Loercher Pazicky. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 1998. xx, 232 pp. $40.00.
American Literature 72(2): 443-444 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-443 [PDF]  

Louis J. Budd

King Arthur in America
By Alan Lupack and Barbara Tepa Lupack. Rochester: Boydell & Brewer. 1999. xiii, 382 pp. $75.00.
American Literature 72(2): 444-445 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-444 [PDF]  

James Emmett Ryan

The Catholic Imagination in American Literature
By Ross Labrie. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 1997. x, 306 pp. $39.95.
American Literature 72(2): 445-446 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-445 [PDF]  

Elizabeth Klaver

Alterity Politics: Ethics and Performative Subjectivity
By Jeffrey T. Nealon. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 1998. xiii, 207 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $17.95.
American Literature 72(2): 446-447 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-446 [PDF]  

Brief Mention
American Literature 72(2): 449-460 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-449 [PDF]  

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American Literature 72(2): 461 (2000); DOI:10.1215/00029831-72-2-461 [PDF]  

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