Articles

Annette Kolodny

Fictions of American Prehistory: Indians, Archeology, and National Origin Myths
American Literature 75(4): 693-721 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-4-693 [PDF]  

Michael A. Elliott

Coyote Comes to the Norton: Indigenous Oral Narrative and American Literary History
American Literature 75(4): 723-749 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-4-723 [PDF]  

Maurice S. Lee

Absolute Poe: His System of Transcendental Racism
American Literature 75(4): 751-781 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-4-751 [PDF]  

Sharon Kim

Puritan Realism: The Wide, Wide World and Robinson Crusoe
American Literature 75(4): 783-811 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-4-783 [PDF]  

Julie Cary Nerad

Slippery Language and False Dilemmas: The Passing Novels of Child, Howells, and Harper
American Literature 75(4): 813-841 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-4-813 [PDF]  

Steven Gould Axelrod

Elizabeth Bishop and Containment Policy
American Literature 75(4): 843-867 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-4-843 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Kathleen Diffley

The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865
By Alice Fahs. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2001. xi, 410 pp. $39.95.
American Literature 75(4): 869-870 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-4-869 [PDF]  

Gregory Tomso

Portraying the Lady: Technologies of Gender in the Short Stories of Henry James; Henry James and the Imagination of Pleasure; Henry James and the Father Question
By Donatella Izzo. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2001. viii, 312 pp. $60.00.
By Tessa Hadley. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2002. viii, 205 pp. $55.00.
By Andrew Taylor. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2002. x, 234 pp. $60.00.
American Literature 75(4): 871-873 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-4-871 [PDF]  

Susan V. Donaldson

The Secret Treachery of Words: Feminism and Modernism in America
By Elizabeth Francis. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2002. xxx, 197 pp. Cloth, $52.95; paper, $18.95.
American Literature 75(4): 873-875 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-4-873 [PDF]  

Meredith L. McGill

Beauty and the Book: Fine Editions and Cultural Distinction in America
By Megan L. Benton. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 2000. xii, 323 pp. $30.00.
American Literature 75(4): 875-876 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-4-875 [PDF]  

Sara Lundquist

Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara: Difference/Homosexuality/Topography; The Woman in the Red Dress: Gender, Space, and Reading
By Hazel Smith. Liverpool, Eng.: Liverpool Univ. Press. 2000. ix, 230 pp. Cloth, $51.95; paper, $22.95.
By Minrose C. Gwin. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2002. viii, 219 pp. $34.95.
American Literature 75(4): 877-879 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-4-877 [PDF]  

Scott Saul

The Visionary Moment: A Postmodern Critique; The Post-Utopian Imagination: American Culture in the Long 1950s; This Is the Beat Generation: New York, San Francisco, Paris
By Paul Maltby. Albany: SUNY Press. 2002. xi, 176 pp. Cloth, $54.50; paper, $17.95.
By M. Keith Booker. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2002. 226 pp. $59.95.
By James Campbell. London: Secker & Warburg, 1999; reprint, Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2001. xiii, 320 pp. Paper, $17.95.
American Literature 75(4): 879-881 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-4-879 [PDF]  

Michael Hames-García

Chicano Timespace: The Poetry and Politics of Ricardo Sánchez
By Miguel R. López. College Station: Texas A & M Univ. Press. 2001. xi, 199 pp. $37.95.
American Literature 75(4): 882-883 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-4-882 [PDF]  

Tyler Curtain

Out on Stage: Lesbian and Gay Theatre in the Twentieth Century
By Alan Sinfield. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 2000. vii, 407 pp. $29.95.
American Literature 75(4): 883-884 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-4-883 [PDF]  

Elisabeth Brown

Memories of a Lost War: American Poetic Responses to the Vietnam War; 21st-Century Modernism: The "New" Poetics
By Subarno Chattarji. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2001. xxi, 248 pp. Cloth, $72.00; paper, $21.95.
By Marjorie Perloff. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. 2002. ix, 222 pp. Cloth, $57.95; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 75(4): 885-887 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-4-885 [PDF]  

Adam Gussow

The White African American Body: A Cultural and Literary Exploration; Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel
By Charles D. Martin. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2002. xi, 221. Cloth, $59.00; paper, $22.00.
By M. Giulia Fabi. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2001. xi, 187 pp. $32.50.
American Literature 75(4): 888-890 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-4-888 [PDF]  

Helen Y. Wang

Mixed Race Literature; Literary Legacies, Folklore Foundations: Selfhood and Cultural Tradition in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature
Ed. Jonathan Brennan. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2002. xiii, 234 pp. Paper, $21.95.
By Karen E. Beardslee. Knox-ville: Univ. of Tennessee Press. 2001. xxiv, 202 pp. $27.00.
American Literature 75(4): 890-892 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-4-890 [PDF]  

Peter Kvidera

Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors; Learning from Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles; Transpacific Displacement: Ethnography, Translation, and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature
By Edvige Giunta. New York: Palgrave. 2002. xix, 203 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $18.95.
By Paula M. L. Moya. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2002. xii, 235 pp. Cloth, $48.00; paper, $17.95.
By Yunte Huang. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2002. xv, 209 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95.
American Literature 75(4): 892-895 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-4-892 [PDF]  

Sarah E. Chinn

In Defiance of the Law: From Ann Hutchinson to Toni Morrison; Race, Citizenship, and Law in American Literature
By Marisa Anne Pagnattaro. New York: Peter Lang. 2001. xii, 229 pp. Paper, $24.95.
By Gregg D. Crane. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2002. xi, 299 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $22.00.
American Literature 75(4): 895-897 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-4-895 [PDF]  

Blake Allmendinger

Invisible Natives: Myth and Identity in the American Western; Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature
By Armando José Prats. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2002. xxi, 317 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $21.95.
By Michael K. Johnson. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 2002. ix, 293 pp. $34.95.
American Literature 75(4): 897-898 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-4-897 [PDF]  

Patricia Penn Hilden

Language Shift among the Navajos: Identity Politics and Cultural Continuity; A Forest of Time: American Indian Ways of History
By Deborah House. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press. 2002. xxvii, 122 pp. $35.00.
By Peter Nabokov. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2002. x, 246 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $20.00.
American Literature 75(4): 899-901 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-4-899 [PDF]  

Bryan Wagner

Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary
By Paul Giles. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2002. xiii, 337 pp. Cloth, $64.95; paper, $21.95.
American Literature 75(4): 901-903 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-4-901 [PDF]  

Bill Brown

American Studies in a Moment of Danger; Situatedness, or, Why We Keep Saying Where We're Coming From
By George Lipsitz. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2001. xix, 334 pp. Cloth, $45.95; paper, $19.95.
By David Simpson. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2002. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $18.95.
American Literature 75(4): 903-906 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-4-903 [PDF]  

Brief Mention
American Literature 75(4): 907-919 (2003); DOI:10.1215/00029831-75-4-907 [PDF]  

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