Articles

Srikanth Reddy

"To Explain Grace Requires a Curious Hand": Marianne Moore's Interdisciplinary Digressions
American Literature 77(3): 451-481 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-3-451 [PDF]  

Hosam Aboul-Ela

The Poetics of Peripheralization: Faulkner and the Question of the Postcolonial
American Literature 77(3): 483-509 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-3-483 [PDF]  

Peter Kvidera

Resonant Presence: Legal Narratives and Literary Space in the Poetry of Early Chinese Immigrants
American Literature 77(3): 511-539 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-3-511 [PDF]  

Laura Arnold Leibman

A Bridge of Difference: Sherman Alexie and the Politics of Mourning
American Literature 77(3): 541-561 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-3-541 [PDF]  

Glenda R. Carpio

Conjuring the Mysteries of Slavery: Voodoo, Fetishism, and Stereotype in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada
American Literature 77(3): 563-589 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-3-563 [PDF]  

Daniel Punday

John Barth's Occasional Writing: The Institutional Construction of Postmodernism in The Friday Book
American Literature 77(3): 591-619 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-3-591 [PDF]  

Roundtable: American Literature at Seventy-five
American Literature 77(3): 621-636 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-3-621 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Susan Kurjiaka

Memory's Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America; Race and Time: American Women's Poetics from Antislavery to Racial Modernity
By Susan M. Stabile. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2004. xiii, 284 pp. $34.95.
By Janet Gray. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2004. viii, 324 pp. $44.95.
American Literature 77(3): 637-639 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-3-637 [PDF]  

Philip Joseph

Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War; Facing the Other: Ethical Disruption and the American Mind; The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession
By Shirley Samuels. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2004. xii, 186 pp. $49.95.
By Linda Bolton. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2004. xi, 209 pp. $47.95.
By Stephen M. Best. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2004. xii, 362. Cloth, $69.00; paper, $25.00.
American Literature 77(3): 639-641 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-3-639 [PDF]  

Arthur Knight

Seems like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition; Good with Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt
By Adam Gussow. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2002. xiv, 341 pp. Cloth $55.00; paper, $22.00.
By Carlo Rotella. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2002. ix, 269 pp. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 77(3): 642-644 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-3-642 [PDF]  

Jeanne Campbell Reesman

Border Confluences: Borderland Narratives from the Mexican War to the Present; South of Our Selves: Mexico in the Poems of Williams, Kerouac, Corso, Ginsberg, Levertov, and Hayden
By Rosemary A. King. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press. 2004. xvii, 190 pp. $39.95.
By Glenn Sheldon. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2004. ix, 190 pp. Paper, $32.00.
American Literature 77(3): 644-646 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-3-644 [PDF]  

Kenneth M. Roemer

Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space; Politics, Persuasion, and Pragmatism: A Rhetoric of Feminist Utopian Fiction
By De Witt Douglas Kilgore. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2003. 294 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.95.
By Ellen Susan Peel. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2002. xxvi, 227 pp. $49.95.
American Literature 77(3): 646-648 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-3-646 [PDF]  

Arthur L. Little, Jr.

The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture; Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique
By David Bergman. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2003. xviii, 304 pp. Cloth, $62.50; paper, $24.50.
By Roderick A. Ferguson. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2004. x, 175 pp. Cloth, $52.95; paper, $18.95.
American Literature 77(3): 648-651 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-3-648 [PDF]  

Susan Albertine

Empire Burlesque: The Fate of Critical Culture in Global America; The Trash Phenomenon: Contemporary Literature, Popular Culture, and the Making of the American Century
By Daniel T. O'Hara. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. xiv, 370 pp. Cloth, $69.95; paper, $22.95.
By Stacey Olster. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2003. x, 299 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 77(3): 651-653 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-3-651 [PDF]  

Andrew Hoberek

Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880-1980
By Christopher Newfield. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2003. 290 pp. $32.95.
American Literature 77(3): 653-655 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-3-653 [PDF]  

Brief Mention
American Literature 77(3): 657-663 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-3-657 [PDF]  

Announcements
American Literature 77(3): 665-667 (2005); DOI:10.1215/00029831-77-3-665 [PDF]  

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