Articles

Kathryn McKee and Annette Trefzer

Preface: Global Contexts, Local Literatures: The New Southern Studies
American Literature 78(4): 677-690 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-048 [PDF]  

Kathryn McKee and Annette Trefzer

The U.S. South in Global Contexts: A Collection of Position Statements
American Literature 78(4): 691-692 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-049 [PDF]  

Barbara Ellen Smith

Place and the Past in the Global South
American Literature 78(4): 693-695 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-4-693 [PDF]  

Tara McPherson

On Wal-Mart and Southern Studies
American Literature 78(4): 695-698 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-4-695 [PDF]  

Jamie L. Winders

Rethinking Southern Communities, Reconfiguring Race: Latino Migration to the U.S. South
American Literature 78(4): 699-700 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-4-699 [PDF]  

Alfred J. López

Dressing for Success in the New Global U.S. South; Or, the Rediscovery of the New World
American Literature 78(4): 701-703 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-4-701 [PDF]  

Deborah Cohn

U.S. Southern Studies and Latin American Studies: Windows onto Postcolonial Studies
American Literature 78(4): 704-707 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-4-704 [PDF]  

Jon Smith

The Rhetoric of Uneven Modernization: Hybrid Cultures in "The South"
American Literature 78(4): 707-709 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-4-707 [PDF]  

Leigh Anne Duck

Space in Time
American Literature 78(4): 709-711 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-4-709 [PDF]  

Natalie J. Ring

Linking Regional and Global Spaces in Pursuit of Southern Distinctiveness
American Literature 78(4): 712-714 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-4-712 [PDF]  

Susan V. Donaldson

Visibility, Haitian Hauntings, and Southern Borders
American Literature 78(4): 714-716 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-4-714 [PDF]  

George B. Handley

On American Cross-Pollinations
American Literature 78(4): 717-719 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-4-717 [PDF]  

John T. Matthews

Globalizing the U.S. South: Modernity and Modernism
American Literature 78(4): 719-722 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-4-719 [PDF]  

Riché Richardson

The World and the U.S. South
American Literature 78(4): 722-724 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-4-722 [PDF]  

Suzanne W. Jones

Who Is a Southern Writer?
American Literature 78(4): 725-727 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-4-725 [PDF]  

Jay Watson

Globalizing a Southern Classic: An Example from Colonial Virginia
American Literature 78(4): 727-730 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-4-727 [PDF]  

Eric Gary Anderson

Rethinking Indigenous Southern Communities
American Literature 78(4): 730-732 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-4-730 [PDF]  

Peter Schmidt

Is Teaching Always Local, Education Global?
American Literature 78(4): 733-739 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-4-733 [PDF]  

Keith Cartwright

"To Walk with the Storm": Oya as the Transformative "I" of Zora Neale Hurston's Afro-Atlantic Callings
American Literature 78(4): 741-767 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-050 [PDF]  

Patricia Yaeger

Circum-Atlantic Superabundance: Milk as World-Making in Alice Randall and Kara Walker
American Literature 78(4): 769-798 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-051 [PDF]  

Anne W. Gulick

We Are Not the People: The 1805 Haitian Constitution's Challenge to Political Legibility in the Age of Revolution
American Literature 78(4): 799-820 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-052 [PDF]  

Caroline Levander

Confederate Cuba
American Literature 78(4): 821-845 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-053 [PDF]  

Review Essays

Hosam Aboul-Ela

Global South, Local South: The New Post-nationalism in U.S. Southern Studies; Globalization and the American South; The American South in a Global World; Look Away! The U.S. South in New World Studies
Globalization and the American South. Ed. James C. Cobb and William Stueck. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2005. xvi, 229 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95.
The American South in a Global World. Ed. James L. Peacock, Harry L. Watson, and Carrie R. Matthews. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2005. ix, 299 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $24.95.
Look Away! The U.S. South in New World Studies. Ed. Jon Smith and Deborah Cohn. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2004. xii, 521 pp. Cloth, $89.95; paper, $26.95.
American Literature 78(4): 847-858 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-054 [PDF]  

Alfred Hornung

"Unstoppable" Creolization: The Evolution of the South into a Transnational Cultural Space; South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture; History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction; Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales
South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture. Ed. Suzanne W. Jones and Sharon Monteith. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2002. xxiii, 394 pp. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $36.95.
History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction. By Deborah N. Cohn. Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt Univ. Press. 1999. x, 236 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $22.95.
Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales. By Keith Cartwright. Lexington: Univ. of Kentucky Press. 2004. 270 pp. Paper, $25.00.
American Literature 78(4): 859-867 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-055 [PDF]  

Book Reviews

Philip Gould

New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American Writing; Popular Measures: Poetry and Church Order in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts; Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America
New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American Writing. By David Read. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2005. x, 177 pp. $37.50.
Popular Measures: Poetry and Church Order in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts. By Amy M. E. Morris. Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press. 2005. 282 pp. $53.50.
Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America. By E. Jennifer Monaghan. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2005. xiii, 491 pp. $49.95.
American Literature 78(4): 869-872 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-056 [PDF]  

Lisa MacFarlane

Susan Glaspell: Her Life and Times
Susan Glaspell: Her Life and Times. By Linda Ben-Zvi. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2005. xvi, 476 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $27.95.
American Literature 78(4): 872-873 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-057 [PDF]  

Edwin J. Barton

Flint on a Bright Stone: A Revolution of Precision and Restraint in American, Russian, and German Modernism; Modernism: A Cultural History; Unknowing: The Work of Modernist Fiction
Flint on a Bright Stone: A Revolution of Precision and Restraint in American, Russian, and German Modernism. By Kirsten Blythe Painter. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2006. xx, 306 pp. $60.00.
Modernism: A Cultural History. By Tim Armstrong. Cambridge, Eng.: Polity. 2005. x, 176 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $24.95.
Unknowing: The Work of Modernist Fiction. By Philip M. Weinstein. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2005. x, 308 pp. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $21.95.
American Literature 78(4): 874-876 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-058 [PDF]  

Paula Elyseu Mesquita

Vision's Immanence: Faulkner, Film, and the Popular Imagination; Faulkner and the Discourses of Culture
Vision's Immanence: Faulkner, Film, and the Popular Imagination. By Peter Lurie. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2004. xii, 237 pp. $42.95.
Faulkner and the Discourses of Culture. By Charles Hannon. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2005. x, 195 pp. $46.95.
American Literature 78(4): 876-877 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-059 [PDF]  

Jules Chametzky

Call It English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature; Two Covenants: Representations of Southern Jewishness; Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America
Call It English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature. By Hana Wirth-Nesher. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2006. xv, 224 pp. $39.50.
Two Covenants: Representations of Southern Jewishness. By Eliza R. L. McGraw. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2005. x, 194 pp. $39.95.
Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America. By Eric J. Sundquist. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2005. 662 pp. $35.00.
American Literature 78(4): 878-879 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-060 [PDF]  

Stephen Knadler

Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861; The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots and Modern Literary Branches
Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861. By John Ernest. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2004. xiv, 426 pp. Cloth, $64.95; paper, $24.95.
The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots and Modern Literary Branches. By Bernard W. Bell. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2004. xxviii, 499 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $24.95.
American Literature 78(4): 880-882 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-061 [PDF]  

Habiba Ibrahim

Playing the Races: Ethnic Caricature and American Literary Realism; Enter the New Negroes: Images of Race in American Culture; Hoodlums: Black Villains and Social Bandits in American Life
Playing the Races: Ethnic Caricature and American Literary Realism. By Henry B. Wonham. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2004. viii, 196 pp. $47.50.
Enter the New Negroes: Images of Race in American Culture. By Martha Jane Nadell. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2004. xii, 199 pp. $27.95.
Hoodlums: Black Villains and Social Bandits in American Life. By William L. Van Deburg. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2004. xiv, 283 pp. $29.00.
American Literature 78(4): 882-884 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-062 [PDF]  

Zita Nunes

Post-slavery Literatures in the Americas: Family Portraits in Black and White; The African Diaspora and Autobiographics: Skeins of Self and Skin
Postslavery Literatures in the Americas: Family Portraits in Black and White. By George B. Handley. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2000. x, 231 pp. Paper, $19.50.
The African Diaspora and Autobiographics: Skeins of Self and Skin. By Chinosole. New York: Peter Lang. 2001. xiv, 187 pp. Paper, $29.95.
American Literature 78(4): 885-887 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-063 [PDF]  

Jené Schoenfeld

The "Tragic Mulatta" Revisited: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Fiction; The Mulatta and the Politics of Race
The "Tragic Mulatta" Revisited: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Fiction. By Eve Allegra Raimon. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2004. x, 202 pp. Paper, $21.95.
The Mulatta and the Politics of Race. By Teresa C. Zackodnik. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2004. xxxii, 235 pp. $45.00.
American Literature 78(4): 887-889 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-064 [PDF]  

Kirsten Silva Gruesz

Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture; Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States
Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture. By Robert D. Aguirre. Minneapolis: Univ. Minnesota Press. 2005. xxix, 198 pp. Cloth, $67.50; paper, $22.50.
Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States. By Rodrigo Lazo. Chapel Hill: Univ. North Carolina Press. 2005. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95.
American Literature 78(4): 889-891 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-065 [PDF]  

Rafael Pérez-Torres

Narratives of Greater Mexico: Essays on Chicano Literary History, Genre, and Borders; Life in Search of Readers: Reading (in) Chicano/a Literature
Narratives of Greater Mexico: Essays on Chicano Literary History, Genre, and Borders. By Héctor Calderón. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press. 2004. 312 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.95.
Life in Search of Readers: Reading (in) Chicano/a Literature. By Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez. Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press. 2003. 256 pp. $35.00.
American Literature 78(4): 892-894 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-066 [PDF]  

Ryan Schneider

Hard-Boiled Masculinities; Cool Men and the Second Sex; Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of Identity; Wounded Hearts: Masculinity, Law, and Literature in American Culture
Hard-Boiled Masculinities. By Christopher Breu. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2005. 245 pp. Paper, $19.95.
Cool Men and the Second Sex. By Susan Fraiman. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2003. xxiii, 212 pp. Cloth, $62.50; paper, $24.50.
Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of Identity. By Daniel Y. Kim. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2005. xxviii, 286 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95.
Wounded Hearts: Masculinity, Law, and Literature in American Culture. By Jennifer Travis. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2005. x, 222 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $22.50.
American Literature 78(4): 894-897 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-067 [PDF]  

Greg Forter

Mystery, Violence, and Popular Culture; Heartbreakers: Women and Violence in Contemporary Culture and Literature
Mystery, Violence, and Popular Culture. By John G. Cawelti. Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press. 2004. xiv, 410 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $21.95.
Heartbreakers: Women and Violence in Contemporary Culture and Literature. By Josephine Gattuso Hendin. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. 2004. viii, 312 pp. $29.95.
American Literature 78(4): 897-899 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-2006-068 [PDF]  

Announcements
American Literature 78(4): 901 (2006); DOI:10.1215/00029831-78-4-901 [PDF]  

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