Houston A. Baker, Jr. and Dana D. Nelson

Preface: Violence, the Body and "The South"
American Literature 73(2): 231-244 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-231 [PDF]  

Articles

Jeannine DeLombard

"Eye-Witness to the Cruelty": Southern Violence and Northern Testimony in Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative
American Literature 73(2): 245-275 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-245 [PDF]  

Jennifer Rae Greeson

The "Mysteries and Miseries" of North Carolina: New York City, Urban Gothic Fiction, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
American Literature 73(2): 277-309 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-277 [PDF]  

Bryan Wagner

Charles Chesnutt and the Epistemology of Racial Violence
American Literature 73(2): 311-337 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-311 [PDF]  

Laura Doyle

The Body against Itself in Faulkner's Phenomenology of Race
American Literature 73(2): 339-364 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-339 [PDF]  

Andrea Levine

Sidney Poitier's Civil Rights: Rewriting the Mystique of White Womanhood in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and In the Heat of the Night
American Literature 73(2): 365-386 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-365 [PDF]  

Ana Patricia Rodríguez

Refugees of the South: Central Americans in the U.S. Latino Imaginary
American Literature 73(2): 387-412 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-387 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Fritz Fleischmann

Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845
Catherine A. Brekus. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 1998. x, 466 pp. Cloth $49.95; paper, $17.95.
American Literature 73(2): 413-414 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-413 [PDF]  

Mimi Gladstein

Sharing Secrets: Nineteenth-Century Women's Relations in the Short Story
By Christine Palumbo-DeSimone. Madison, N.J.: Farleigh Dickinson Univ. Press. 2000. 176 pp. $34.50.
American Literature 73(2): 414-415 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-414 [PDF]  

Jeffrey H. Richards

The Portable Theater: American Literature and the Nineteenth-Century Stage
By Alan L. Ackerman Jr. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 1999. xi, 271 pp. $45.00.
American Literature 73(2): 415-416 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-415 [PDF]  

Joan Burbick

Emily Dickinson: Monarch of Perception
By Domhnall Mitchell. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2000. xvi, 352 pp. $40.00.
American Literature 73(2): 416-417 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-416 [PDF]  

Edwin J. Barton

Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe
By John Evangelist Walsh. New York: St. Martin's. 2000. xii, 199 pp. Paper, $14.95.
American Literature 73(2): 418 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-418 [PDF]  

Paul Baender

Mark Twain, A Literary Life
By Everett Emerson. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2000. xiii, 386 pp. $34.95.
American Literature 73(2): 419 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-419 [PDF]  

Susan Belasco

Neutral Ground: New Traditionalism and the American Romance Controversy
By G. R. Thompson and Eric Carl Link. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1999. xvi, 267 pp. $47.50.
American Literature 73(2): 420-421 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-420 [PDF]  

Melissa Solomon

Willa Cather's Sexual Aesthetics and the Male Homosexual Literary Tradition
By John P. Anders. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 1999. xiv, 187 pp. $40.00.
American Literature 73(2): 421-422 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-421 [PDF]  

J. Scott Bryson

Notations of the Wild: Ecology in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens
By Gyorgyi Voros. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 1997. 195 pp. $28.95.
American Literature 73(2): 422-423 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-422 [PDF]  

Jared Gardner

Patterns for America: Modernism and the Concept of Culture
By Susan Hegeman. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 1999. x, 264 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $17.95.
American Literature 73(2): 423-424 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-423 [PDF]  

James Applewhite

The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery
By Laura Quinney. Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia. 1999. xvii, 200 pp. $30.00.
American Literature 73(2): 424-425 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-424 [PDF]  

John Whalen-Bridge

Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Legend: The Mythic Form of an Autobiographical Fiction
By James T. Jones. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 1999. xii, 278 pp. $34.95.
American Literature 73(2): 425-426 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-425 [PDF]  

Andrew Hoborek

Creating the Modern Man: American Magazines and Consumer Culture, 1900-1950
By Tom Pendergast. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2000. x, 289 pp. $34.95.
American Literature 73(2): 426-427 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-426 [PDF]  

John Lowe

Barry Hannah: Postmodern Romantic
By Ruth D. Weston. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 1998. xii, 147 pp. $25.00.
American Literature 73(2): 427-428 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-427 [PDF]  

Blake Allmendinger

West of the Border: The Multicultural Literature of the Western American Frontiers
By Noreen Groover Lape. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 2000. x, 224 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $24.95.
American Literature 73(2): 429-430 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-429 [PDF]  

John Hellmann

Cold Warriors: Manliness on Trial in the Rhetoric of the West
By Suzanne Clark. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 2000. xi, 251 pp. $34.95.
American Literature 73(2): 430-431 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-430 [PDF]  

Matthew Guinn

Frames of Southern Mind: Reflections on the Stoic, Bi-Racial, and Existential South
By Jan Nordby Gretlund. Odense, Denmark: Odense Univ. Press. 1998. 286 pp. $28.90.
American Literature 73(2): 431-432 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-431 [PDF]  

Veronica Makowsky

Inventing Southern Literature
By Michael Kreyling. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 1998. xviii, 200 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $17.00.
American Literature 73(2): 432-433 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-432 [PDF]  

Enda Duffy

The Irish Voice in America: 250 Years of Irish-American Fiction
2d ed. By Charles Fanning. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky. 1999. x, 448 pp. Paper, $24.95.
American Literature 73(2): 433-434 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-433 [PDF]  

Barbara Ryan

Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space
By Stacy Alaimo. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2000. x, 225 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $17.95.
American Literature 73(2): 434-435 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-434 [PDF]  

Jan Cohn

Detective Agency: Women Rewriting the Hard-Boiled Tradition
By Priscilla L. Walton and Manina Jones. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 1999. 327 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $16.95.
American Literature 73(2): 435-436 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-435 [PDF]  

Lynn Z. Bloom

Autobiographical Inscriptions: Form, Personhood, and the American Woman Writer of Color
By Barbara Rodríguez. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1999. viii, 228 pp. $45.00.
American Literature 73(2): 437-438 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-437 [PDF]  

Christopher A. McAuley

Autobiography and Black Identity Politics: Racialization in Twentieth-Century America
By Kenneth Mostern. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 1999. iv, 280 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 73(2): 438-439 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-438 [PDF]  

Robert Reid-Pharr

Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture
By Siobhan B. Somerville. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2000. xi, 259 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $17.95.
American Literature 73(2): 439-440 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-439 [PDF]  

Gary Kerley

The Line's Eye: Poetic Experience, American Sight
By Elisa New. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 1998. x, 342 pp. Cloth, $52.00; paper, $24.95.
American Literature 73(2): 440-441 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-440 [PDF]  

Jeanne Campbell Reesman

Coyote Kills John Wayne: Postmodernism and Contemporary Fictions of the Trans-cultural Frontier
By Carlton Smith. Hanover, N.H.: Univ. Press of New England. 2000. x, 167 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $17.95.
American Literature 73(2): 441-442 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-441 [PDF]  

Riché Richardson

Black Hunger: Food and the Politics of U.S. Identity
By Doris Witt. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1999. ix, 292 pp. $45.00.
American Literature 73(2): 442-443 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-442 [PDF]  

Brief Mention
American Literature 73(2): 445-458 (2001); DOI:10.1215/00029831-73-2-445 [PDF]  

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