Articles

Philip Joseph

The Verdict from the Porch: Zora Neale Hurston and Reparative Justice
American Literature 74(3): 455-483 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-455 [PDF]  

Rebecca Beasley

Ezra Pound's Whistler
American Literature 74(3): 485-516 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-485 [PDF]  

Celena E. Kusch

How the West Was One: American Modernism's Song of Itself
American Literature 74(3): 517-538 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-517 [PDF]  

Rocco Marinaccio

George Oppen's "`I've Seen America' Book": Discrete Series and the Thirties Road Narrative
American Literature 74(3): 539-569 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-539 [PDF]  

Sianne Ngai

"A Foul Lump Started Making Promises in My Voice": Race, Affect, and the Animated Subject
American Literature 74(3): 571-601 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-571 [PDF]  

Review Essay

Sharon M. Harris

"A New Era in Female History": Ninteenth-Century U.S. Women Writers
American Literature 74(3): 603-618 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-603 [PDF]  

John Whalen-Bridge

Some Versions of the Cold War
American Literature 74(3): 619-633 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-619 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Rosalie Murphy Baum

The American Puritan Elegy: A Literary and Cultural Study.
By Jeffrey A. Hammond. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2000. xv, 264 pp. $59.95.
American Literature 74(3): 635-637 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-635 [PDF]  

David Barry Gaspar

Soul by Soul: Life inside the Antebellum Slave Market
By Walter Johnson. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 1999. 283 pp. $26.00.
American Literature 74(3): 637-638 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-637 [PDF]  

Christopher C. Freeburg

Imagining Grace: Liberating Theologies in the Slave Narrative Tradition
By Kimberly Rae Connor. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2000. xi, 311 pp. $34.95.
American Literature 74(3): 638-640 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-638 [PDF]  

Priscilla Perkins

The Erotic Whitman
By Vivian R. Pollak. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2000. xxiv, 261 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $18.95.
American Literature 74(3): 640-642 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-640 [PDF]  

Sharon L. Dean

Hunting Captain Ahab: Psychological Warfare and the Melville Revival
By Clare L. Spark. Kent, Ohio: Kent State Univ. Press. 2001. x, 730 pp. $55.00.
American Literature 74(3): 643-644 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-643 [PDF]  

Timothy Powell

Preacher Woman Sings the Blues: The Autobiographies of Nineteenth-Century African American Evangelists; Sentimental Confessions: Spiritual Narratives of Nineteenth-Century African American Women
By Richard J. Douglass-Chin. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2001. 240 pp. $34.95.
By Joycelyn Moody. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2001. xiv, 208 pp. $40.00.
American Literature 74(3): 645-647 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-645 [PDF]  

Gretchen Murphy

Performing the American Frontier, 1870-1906; Embodiment of a Nation: Human Form in American Places
By Roger A. Hall. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2001. xii, 281 pp. $54.95.
By Cecelia Tichi. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2001. xii, 303 pp. $39.95.
American Literature 74(3): 647-649 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-647 [PDF]  

John Gennari

Deep River: Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought
By Paul Allen Anderson. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2001. x, 335 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 74(3): 649-652 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-649 [PDF]  

David Jarraway

Mosaic Modernism: Anarchism, Pragmatism, Culture; Beyond Solidarity: Pragmatism and Difference in a Globalized World
By David Kadlec. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2000. 331 pp. $42.50.
By Giles Gunn. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2001. xxii, 235 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $16.00.
American Literature 74(3): 652-654 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-652 [PDF]  

Bonnie Kime Scott

Modernism, Inc.: Body, Memory, Capital; Queer Frontiers: Millennial Geographies, Genders, and Generations
Ed. Jani Scandura and Michael Thurston. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2001. viii, 311 pp. Cloth, $55; paper, $18.50.
Ed. Joseph Boone, et al. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press. 2000. ix, 383 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $24.95.
American Literature 74(3): 654-656 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-654 [PDF]  

Lisa Marcus

Willa Cather and Others; Willa Cather: Queering America
By Jonathan Goldberg. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2001. xv, 227 pp. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $18.95.
By Marilee Lindemann. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 1999. xvi, 185 pp. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $18.50.
American Literature 74(3): 656-658 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-656 [PDF]  

Manthia Diawara

More Than Night: Film Noir in Its Context
By James Naremore. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2000. xiv, 345 pp. Paper, $19.95.
American Literature 74(3): 658-660 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-658 [PDF]  

Thomas B. Byers

Hollywood Fictions: The Dream Factory in American Popular Literature
By John Parris Springer. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 2000. xvi, 319 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 74(3): 660-662 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-660 [PDF]  

Michael Hoffman

Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934
By Rachel Blau DuPlessis. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2001. xiv, 238 pp. $64.95.
American Literature 74(3): 662-664 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-662 [PDF]  

Stephen Fredman

Statutes of Liberty: The New York School of Poets
2d ed. By Geoff Ward. New York: Palgrave. 1993; 2001. ix, 226. Paper, $21.95.
American Literature 74(3): 664-666 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-664 [PDF]  

H. Collin Messer

Making History: The Biographical Narratives of Robert Penn Warren
By Jonathan S. Cullick. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2000. xiv, 214 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $18.95.
American Literature 74(3): 666-668 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-666 [PDF]  

Don L. Cook

Negative Liberties: Morrison, Pynchon, and the Problem of Liberal Ideology; Pynchon Notes 42-43: Approach and Avoid: Essays on "Gravity's Rainbow"
By Cyrus R. K. Patell. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2001. xxiv, 239 pp. Paper, $18.95.
Ed. Luc Herman. Hamilton, Ohio: Miami University. 1999. 342 pp. Paper, $10.00.
American Literature 74(3): 668-670 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-668 [PDF]  

Kurt Eisen

Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson
By Linda Williams. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2001. xviii, 401 pp. $32.50.
American Literature 74(3): 670-672 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-670 [PDF]  

Carla Willard

Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture
By Gayle Wald. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2000. xiii, 251 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $17.95.
American Literature 74(3): 672-674 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-672 [PDF]  

Maria Damon

A Menorah for Athena: Charles Reznikoff and the Jewish Dilemmas of Objectivist Poetry; Not One of Them in Place: Modern Poetry and Jewish American Identity; Translating Israel: Contemporary Hebrew Literature and Its Reception in America
By Stephen Fredman. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2001. ix, 193 pp. Cloth, $46.00; paper, $16.00.
By Norman Finkelstein. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2001. xii, 193 pp. Paper, $17.95.
By Alan L. Mintz. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Univ. Press. 2001. vii, 272 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 74(3): 674-677 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-674 [PDF]  

Charles Hatten

Literary Trauma: Sadism, Memory, and Sexual Violence in Amercan Women's Fiction
By Deborah M. Horvitz. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2000. ix, 169 pp. Cloth, $60.50; paper, $20.95.
American Literature 74(3): 677-679 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-677 [PDF]  

Julie Abraham

Impossible Women: Lesbian Figures and American Literature
By Valerie Rohy. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2000. 191 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $16.95.
American Literature 74(3): 679-680 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-679 [PDF]  

Mark Osteen

Around Quitting Time: Work and Middle-Class Fantasy in American Fiction
By Robert Seguin. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2001. 210 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $17.95.
American Literature 74(3): 680-682 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-680 [PDF]  

Evie Shockley

Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States; Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity
By Russ Castronovo. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2001. xv, 351 pp. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $18.95.
By Sharon Patricia Holland. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2000. xi, 235 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $17.95.
American Literature 74(3): 683-685 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-683 [PDF]  

Brief Mention
American Literature 74(3): 687-701 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-687 [PDF]  

Announcements
American Literature 74(3): 703-704 (2002); DOI:10.1215/00029831-74-3-703 [PDF]  

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