Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction by Diana Rebekkah Paulin (review)

Race, Politics, and Nation in Albion W. Tourgée's American Historical Novels Series: The Example of <i>Hot Plowshares</i>

The Future of Whiteness

Legacy Bookshelf Lisa M. Thomas Below is a selected sampling of current books, articles, and dissertations relevant to the study of American women writers from the seventeenth through the early twentieth centuries. Prices, unless otherwise indicated, are for hardcover editions. Individual Authors Alcott, Louisa May Lee, Seungeun. "Double Narratives of Domesticity Ideology: Louisa May Alcott's Little Women." Nineteenth Century Literature in English 12.1 (2008): 55-76. Matteson, John. Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father. New York: Norton, 2008. 512 pp. $29.95. Williams, Susan S. "Forwarding Literary Interests: James Redpath and the Authorial Careers of Marion Harland, Louisa May Alcott, and Sherwood Bonner." Legacy 25 (2008): 262-74. Bonner, Sherwood See Williams on Alcott. Cather, Willa Porter, David. On the Divide: The Many Lives of Willa Cather. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2008. 496 pp. $50.00 cloth. See also Cather Studies. Chopin, Kate Beer, Janet, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2008. 208 pp. $90.00/$29.99 paper. [End Page 187] Dickinson, Emily Mitchell, Domhnall, and Maria Stuart, eds. The International Reception of Emily Dickinson. London: Continuum, 2009. 304 pp. $150.00. Perriman, Wendy. A Wounded Deer: The Effects of Incest on the Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2006. 331 pp. $79.99. Ramirez, Anne. "Emily Dickinson's Breadcrumbs of Grace." You Are What You Eat: Literary Probes into the Palate. Ed. Annette M. Magid. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2008. 440 pp. $89.99. Wineapple, Brenda. White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. New York: Knopf, 2008. 432 pp. $27.95. See also the Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin. See also the Emily Dickinson Journal. Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.) Friedman, Susan Stanford. Penelope's Web: Gender, Modernity, H. D.'s Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2008. 500 pp. $52.00 paper. Fosdick, Gertrude Christian Campbell, Donna. "A Forgotten Daughter of Bohemia: Gertrude Christian Fosdick's Out of Bohemia and the Artists' Novel of the 1890s." Legacy 25 (2008): 275-85. Fuller, Margaret Myerson, Joel, ed. Fuller in Her Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of Her Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2008. 258 pp. $27.95 paper. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins Weber, Jean Jacques. "Educating the Reader: Narrative Technique and Evaluation in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland." The Language and Literature Reader. Ed. Ronald Carter and Peter Stockwell. London: Routledge, 2008. 177-86. Glasgow, Ellen See the Ellen Glasgow Newsletter. Harland, Marion See Williams on Alcott. Hawthorne, Sophia Hall, Julie E. "Writing at the Crossroads: Sophia Hawthorne's Civil War Letters to Annie Fields." Legacy 25 (2008): 251-61. [End Page 188] Hopkins, Pauline Bergman, Jill A. "The Motherless Child in Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood." Legacy 25 (2008): 286-98. Hurston, Zora Neale Eisen, Kurt. "Theatrical Ethnography and Modernist Primitivism in Eugene O'Neill and Zora Neale Hurston." South Central Review 25.1 (2008): 56-73. King, Lovaleria, ed. The Cambridge Introduction to Zora Neale Hurston. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2008. 160 pp. $70.00/$19.99 paper. Jewett, Sarah Orne Fogels, Audrey. "French-Born 'Jamaican' in New England: Cultural Dislocation in Sarah Orne Jewett's 'The Foreigner.'" Résonances 9 (2008): 51-67. Larsen, Nella Anisimova, Irina. "Masks of Authenticity: Failed Quests for the People in Quicksand by Nella Larsen and The Silver Dove by Andrei Belyi." Comparatist 32.1 (2008): 175-92. Peterkin, Julia Williams, Susan Millar. A Devil and a Good Woman, Too: The Lives of Julia Peterkin. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2008. 392 pp. $18.95 paper. Stein, Gertrude Brandel, Darcy L. "The Case of Gertrude Stein and the Genius of Collaboration." Women's Studies 37 (2008): 371-92. Dean, Gabrielle. "Grid Games: Gertrude Stein's Diagrams and Detectives." Modernism/Modernity 15 (2008): 317-41. Leick, Karen. "Popular Modernism: Little Magazines and the American Daily Press." PMLA 123 (2008): 125-39. [Includes Gertrude Stein.] Nitta, Keiko. "Gertrude Stein, Q. E. D." Eigo Seinen/Rising Generation 154 (2008): 102-05. Wineapple, Brenda. Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2008. 528 pp. $21.95 paper. Sui...

This guide accompanies the following article: Matthew W. Hughey, ‘The Janus Face of Whiteness: Toward a Cultural Sociology of White Nationalism and White Antiracism’, Sociology Compass 3/6 (2009): 920–936, 10.1111/j.1751‐9020.2009.00244.x Author’s introduction Over the past 20 years, the study of white racial identity has received in‐depth, interdisciplinary attention. Under sociological scrutiny, the study of whiteness has traversed quite a few stages: from understandings of whiteness as a category replete with social privileges, as a mere reflection of non‐racial (often class‐based) dynamics, to its most recent turn that emphasizes the contextual and intersectional heterogeneity of whiteness. Because of the increased attention to context and political disputes, the study of whiteness has never been more amenable to cultural analysis than it is today. Hence, an emphasis on different white racial formations that span a political spectrum – from conservative to liberal and racist to antiracist – is now dominant. In this vein, white nationalists and white antiracists represent the distinct polarities of contemporary inquisitions into white racial identity. Motivated by this academic milieu, this guide offers an overview of the major scholarship that address white nationalism &amp; white antiracism, appropriate online materials, and examples from a sample syllabus. Together, these resources aim to assist in understanding the general processes and contexts that produce ‘whiteness’ and imbue it with meaning, the social relationships and practices in which white racial identity identities become embedded, and how whiteness simultaneously possesses material and symbolic privileges alongside diverse and seemingly antagonistic experiences. Author recommends The complexity of whiteness McDermott, Monica and Frank L. Samson 2005. ‘White Racial and Ethnic Identity in the United States.’ Annual Review of Sociology 31 : 245–61. Any contemporary apprentice of the sociological study of white racial identity should read this essay. Monica McDermott and her student Frank Samson combine to provide a robust overview of the literature. They walk the tightrope of balancing both a broad coverage of the literature with the depth that key studies necessitate. In so doing, they put a finger on the key dilemma of studying white racial identity today: ‘Navigating between the long‐term staying power of white privilege and the multifarious manifestations of the experience of whiteness remains the task of the next era of research on white racial and ethnic identity’ (2005: 256). Duster, Troy 2001. ‘The ‘Morphing’ Properties of Whiteness.’ Pp. 113–33 in The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness , edited by E. B. Rasmussen, E. Klinenberg, I. J. Nexica and M. Wray. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. In this essay – part of a larger volume on whiteness that I also recommend – Duster synthesizes disparate approaches to the study of whiteness. Demonstrating how some scholars understand white racial identity as a contextual and cognitive category (‘fluid’), while some frame whiteness as a structural and fixed category of material privileges (‘frozen’), Duster asks ‘who is right?’ He answers via the metaphor of whiteness‐as‐water. In one moment, whiteness can morph into vapor as a contextual and unstable identity, while the next moment it can instantly transform into a harsh and unyielding form of ice‐like privilege. Duster’s essay is an excellent retort for those who argue that we should move ‘beyond’ race to the utopian realm of color‐blind individualism. Duster demonstrates, although the example of the supposedly egalitarian New Deal, that while race is socially constructed, the legacy of racism remains a historically reproduced and real social fact – denying the existence of race perpetuates racial inequality. Duster closes the chapter with a personal anecdote that grounds the historical example in modern, interactional, and everyday life. Perry, Pamela 2002. Shades of White: White Kids and Racial Identities in High School . Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Perry gives us two ethnographic studies in one – that of two northern California high schools: one located in a predominantly white, if economically diverse, suburb, the other situated in a multiracial urban community. Perry persistently and systematically probes the complexities of white racial identity in the practices and discourses of the youth attending these high schools. She finds that whites in the predominantly white, suburban high school do not see themselves as a unique race and take their racial identity for granted – they understand distinctly white practices as normative rather than as constitutive of a subjective worldview. In contrast, the whites at the multiracial, urban high school possess a more critical and comparative view of race and their own place in the racial order. In sum, Perry argues that whiteness is a set of complex, contradictory, and multiple subject positions. Wray, Matt. 2006. Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness . Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Matt Wray brings the tools of cultural sociology viz‐á‐viz ‘symbolic boundaries’ to the interrogation of the moniker White Trash . Wray problematizes this relatively normalized term to question its origins and how it persists. Drawing upon literary texts, folklore, diaries, medical articles, and social scientific analyses from the early 1700s to the turn of the 20th century, Wray documents the multiple meanings that were projected onto poor rural whites in the United States. Of particular import, Wray demonstrates how white supremacist ideas about class and region became dominant through public health campaigns and eugenic reformations. Impoverished whites found themselves the targets of officials and activists who framed them as ‘filthy’ or “feebleminded,” and thus a threat to the purity and supremacy of the white race. This text is particularly informative for its demonstration of how white supremacist logic was not only focused on racial ‘otherness’ but used the axes of class and location to directly demarcate and attack those seen as ‘white’ yet somehow racially deficient and unworthy. Winant, Howard 2004. ‘Behind Blue Eyes: Whiteness and Contemporary U.S. Racial Politics.’ Pp. 3–16 in Off White: Readings on Race, Power, and Society , edited by Michelle Fine, Lois Weis, Linda C. Powell and April Burns. New York, NY: Routledge. In applying his now classic approach formulated in concert with Michael Omi ( Racial Formations , 1986), Howard Winant applies the ‘racial projects’ thesis to whites: ‘I think it would be beneficial to attempt to sort out alternative conceptions of whiteness, along with the politics that both flow from and inform these conceptions. … focusing on five key racial projects, which I term, far right, new right, neoconservative, neoliberal, and new abolitionist ’ (2004: 6). Hence, Winant maps a theory of white identity formation onto a bifurcated ‘culture war.’ Labeling this phenomenon ‘racial dualism as politics,’ Winant advances a paradigm in which whiteness is undergoing ‘a profound political crisis.’ Winant’s essay is especially important for those that wish to emphasize the heterogeneity of white racial identity, as he provides Weberian‐like ‘ideal types’ for the comprehension of the racial‐political landscape. Hughey, Matthew W. (forthcoming 2010). ‘Navigating the (Dis)similarities of White Racial Identities: The Conceptual Framework of “Hegemonic Whiteness.”’ Ethnic &amp; Racial Studies. In this work, I build upon many of the aforementioned studies. Like Pamela Perry (2002) I dive into two ethnographic sites, but of much different breed. To interrogate how whiteness might be akin to ‘vapor and ice’ (Duster 2001) and to provide a robust answer to the dilemma of the ‘long‐term staying power of

The sociology of white America: A teaching and learning guide

can pull all stops out Till they call cops out Grind your behind till you're banned But ya gotta get a gimmick If you wanna get a hand .... You Gotta Get a (Sondheim) Although Stephen Sondheim's lyrics were sung by a fictitious burlesque performer of late 1920s in musical Gypsy, they may have just as easily come from mouth of Millie De Leon several decades earlier. De Leon, billed as Girl in Blue, would have been more accurately billed as Gimmick Girl. Arrested numerous times from 1903 to 1915, Mlle. De Leon was a master of stirring public scandal and thereby gaining free publicity at a time when newspapers were clamoring for sensational stories. Over seventy-five newspaper clippings at Theatre Collection of New York Public Library (NYPL) chronicle De Leon's success at attracting both press and an audience with her controversial behavior inside and outside of theatre. Extolled as the first real queen of American (Toll 230), burlesque's first truly national sex symbol (Toll 226), the reigning burlesque 'classic' (Zeidman 13), and the best in her line (New York Clipper 30), De Leon is too often forgotten by theatre and dance historians.1 Well before Gypsy Rose Lee started stripping with style, Millie De Leon became a prominent figure in battle over public decency in entertainment. Among other interesting facets, Millie De Leon's career provides a provocative glimpse at character of burlesque dancing in early twentieth century, limits of so-called public decency at that time, and use of newspapers as a tool for sensationalistic self-promotion. More importantly, this study demonstrates that De Leon deserves to be remembered for her role as a figure (quite literally) in public spotlight. The Origin of Cooch Dancing in Burlesque history of American burlesque begins with a Greek classic and ends with a leg show, according to Bernard Sobel (Burleycue 3). Although parody, original intent of burlesque, can be traced back to Aristophanes, nearest cousin to modem burlesque is linked to Lydia Thompson and her British Blondes, who brought Americans a combination of clever parody and shapely feminine legs in 1860s and '70s. As with music halls and vaudeville, burlesque of 1890s incorporated a variety of entertainment, including comic sketches, songs, and dances. However, by turn of century, became scandalous, with advent of belly dance, or dance, as it came to be called. The advent of cooch was integral to decline of burlesque; by mid to late 1920s, burlesque had degenerated to little more than raunchy jokes and striptease.2 Cooch dancing first caught attention of American audiences when Little Egypt and others danced at Chicago World's Fair of 1893. The fair featured exhibits of various world cultures, ranging from primitive African and Indian cultures to civilized White City. Somewhere in between lay Middle Eastern and Asian exhibits, complete with belly dancers. In his book Horrible Prettiness, Robert C. Allen explains what made cooch dance taboo to American audiences: The cooch, or cootch, or hootchy-kootchy phenomenon-as belly dancing quickly came to be called-points out contradictory nature of fair's construction of femininity. Inside White City, women's accomplishments were granted a more prominent place than at any previous international exposition.... At same time, on other, side of fair, all that had been suppressed in White City's representation of female body as frozen, solemn, and chaste reemerged in undulations of cooch dancer... a reminder of atavistic nature of women in a semi-civilized state. (228) Burleque and cooch appeared to be a perfect match. Very quickly, cooch dancer became a highly popular feature of burlesque, and imitators of Little Egypt flourished with their Oriental dances and Salome dances of seven veils. …

The purpose of this paper is to consider how white identity is maintained, in part, by the way itsm eaning is interpreted, and to explore how different frameworks for discussing the influence of whiteness affect the ways white teachers might take up their white identities. I argue that using a feminist poststructural approach (Butler, 1993; Davies, 2003; Kumashiro, 2002; St. Pierre, 2000), by re-reading one’s stories of racial identity, can mobilize white teachers for anti-racist action in a contextualized manner, situating identity as both made by and making larger social discourses about whiteness. I share the poem “Bule”, published in Infinite Rust, where I write about my white identity in the context of living outside of Jakarta, Indonesia for two years. I model the re-reading process by critically interpreting “Bule” using two frameworks for understanding whiteness: the white privilege framework, popularized by Peggy McIntosh (1988),and the white racial shame framework, created by Reverend Thandeka (1999). I chose to re-read a poem about identity because by virtue of its form, a poem can reveal knowledge as partial andidentity as shifting. This allows me to think about racial identity as a performance that protects and maintains white supremacy, and also a performance I have agency to disrupt. While I take both frameworks and their implications seriously, I conclude by discussing how Thandeka’s framework allows for a more nuanced, situated interpretation of whiteness. I hope that my example of writing and re-reading an autobiographical account of white identity contributes to second wave white teacher identity study's goal to avoid essentializing whiteness in order to understand it with complexity as it functions psychologically and sociopolitically (Jupp & Lensmire, 2016; Jupp, Berry & Lensmire, 2016; Lensmire, 2013; Tanner, 2018).

Sutton E. Griggs and Thomas R. Dixon: A Reconstruction Call and Response

Reviewed by: Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States by Travis M. Foster Brigitte Fielder FOSTER, TRAVIS M. Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 176 pp. $65.00 hardcover. Travis Foster's Genre and White Supremacy in the Postemancipation United States reads the "ordinariness" of literary genre against the ordinariness of anti-Black racism in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century. In popular genres, Foster traces "the interplay between aesthetic conventions and social norms," showing how generic reading experiences encouraged both shared racial identification and shared racist sentiment (2). If genres, as Foster holds, "produce and give substance to the ordinary," exhibiting habitual practices of writing and reading, they also evidence "habitual practices of racism" (15, 5). Utilizing familiarity and nostalgia, the ordinariness of genre also contained racism's ordinary forms. Overwhelmingly, Foster does not examine texts that focus on racial relations or racial violence. His first three chapters deal with texts whose casual—everyday—forms of racism might easily be overlooked by readers who have only learned to attend to more overt forms of racist violence, particularly alongside histories of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. That such racism might fly under the radar illustrates how deeply embedded anti-Black racism is in US literary culture. These texts were not expressly concerned with race, even as they exhibit a shared investment in white supremacy; it is often their understated commitments to whiteness to which Foster attends. [End Page 310] Foster's first three chapters take up genres that effectively work to reinforce white identity among readers, even across various points of difference. Attending not only to generic similarities but differences, Foster highlights not genre's confinements but its elasticity. He here compares genre's ability to include variation with "the capacious elasticity of whiteness" (19). The genres of the book's early chapters foreground whiteness's absorptive ability, incorporating European immigrants, people of different classes, and those with different geographical origins and orientations and political positions. By foregrounding inclusion, racial exclusion is subtler, often implied rather than said outright, but foundational to the establishment of white national fantasies and white social practices. The first two chapters treat forms aimed at gendered readerships: the campus novel and the women's periodical The Ladies' Home Journal. Both, Foster argues, produced ideas of fraternity and sorority that were mutually constituted alongside post-war white nationalism. Of campus novels, Foster writes, "white sectional reconciliation remained the genre's foremost concern into the early twentieth century" (24). The camaraderie displayed here is dependent upon whiteness, even (or perhaps especially) as it reaches across divides of class, region, and gender. Campus novels here become "populist fables" in their pretense at universality while leaving racial exclusion implicit (33). Playing on nostalgia in these narratives of forging friendship across difference, this genre's overarching script lends itself to "sectional reconciliation and transsectional whiteness" (38). Although some of the campus novels Foster discusses take up women's college experiences, the second chapter more closely examines white sororal attachments and friendship. Like white campus life, "white women's culture and white women's friendships collaborated as constituents within the ordinariness of postbellum antiblackness" (44). This chapter takes as its primary example The Ladies' Home Journal, which evidenced similarly reconciliationist rhetoric in women's friendship formation. Reading and friendship are coupled in the periodical's framing, imagining potential readers as a sororal community of friends and "forging American womanhood into a distinctly white nationalist disposition" (51). Such a disposition arises from the journal's various expressions of anti-Blackness, in representations of Black characters, uses of nostalgia, and mundane uses of anti-Black humor, as well as the habitual exclusion of Black writers from its pages. The readerly friendships forged here were carefully and clearly segregated. The book's third chapter turns to the Civil War elegy as a form that brought together dissenting positions with relation to the war and even assessments of its value—united under a shared position of white mourning. Foster treats distinctions amid this broader genre in order to illustrate how differing approaches to mourning the (white) war dead were still incorporated into a...

nThis article will investigate how Coetzee's white male characters confront their pasts that revolve around abuse of power in both familial relations and the community. For a long time, Coetzee has been in a difficult position regarding his literary identity. He is both criticized and praised by many people about his writings. In this article, I will be investigating how he draws both praise and criticism in the way he constructs white male identity. It is possible that many of these critics do not agree with the writer's construction of both African and white identities. Coetzee was required to betray his ancestors and oppose the white male dominance. I will determine whether he chose either of them. It is a known fact that none of Coetzee novels were banned by the Apartheid regime. The most probable reason that is often cited by many of his critics is that he was politically correct. An investigation of his representation of white hegemony might put to rest this criticism. Furthermore, it is important to understand his stand against white supremacy at a time many of his colleagues from the civil rights movement were writing about equality and human rights. I will investigate how the characters of his novels feel influenced by those who exercise power in the society. Most importantly, I will examine how masculine identities in the novels fit in the wider society and how they respond to changing power structures because they influence their behavior. My objective is to investigate whether Coetzee ascribed to the patriarchal Boer societal values that marginalized both women and servants into silence. Since masculine discourse is recurring in his other works, it is both an ideological and political discourse representing oppression and colonialism.

American Feminism in Formation: Margaret Fuller's Women in the Nineteenth Century and Louisa May Alcott's Little Women

Below is a selected sampling of current books, articles, and dissertations relevant to the study of American women writers from the seventeenth through the early twentieth centuries. Prices unless otherwise indicated are for hardcover editions. Individual Authors Alcott, Louisa May Laffrado, Laura. "'How Could You Leave Me Alone When the Room Was Full of Men?': Gender and Self-Representation in Louisa May Alcott's Hospital Sketches. ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 48 (2002): 71-95. Barnes, Djuna Veltman, Laura J. "'The Bible Lies the One Way, but the Night-Gown the Other': Dr. Matthew OConnor, Confession, and Gender in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood." Modern Fiction Studies 49 (2003): 204-27. Bethune, Mary McLeod Hanson, Joyce A. Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women's Political Activism. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 2003. 256 pp. $32.50. Bristow, Gwen Lewis, Nghana. "She'll Take Her Stand: Gwen Bristow's Neo-Agrarianism and Visions of Modernity." Mississippi Quarterly 56 (2002-3): 77-104. Cather, Willa Chaput, Catherine. "Democracy, Capitalism, and the Ambivalence of Willa Cather's Frontier Rhetorics: Uncertain Foundations of the U.S. Public University System." College English 66 (2004): 310-34. Child, Lydia Maria Nerad, Julie Cary. "Slippery Language and False Dilemmas: The Passing Novels of Child, Howells, and Harper." American Literature 75 (2003): 813-41. Chopin, Kate Stein, Allen. "The Kaleidoscope of Truth: A New Look at Chopin's 'The Storm.'" American Literary Realism 36 (2003): 51-64. Dargan, Olive Tilford Ackerman, Kathy Cantley. The Heart of Revolution: The Radical Life and Novels of Olive Dargan. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2004. 232 pp. $29.95. Davis, Rebecca Harding Miller, Jeffrey W. "'A Desolate, Shabby Home': [End Page 259] Rebecca Harding Davis, Margret Howth, and Domestic Ideology." ATQ 17 (2003): 259-78. Dickinson, Emily Heginbotham, Eleanor Elson. Reading the Fascicles of Emily Dickinson: Dwelling in Possibilities. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2003. 300 pp. $47.95 /$9.95 CD. McCromack, Jerusha Hull. "Domesticating Delphi: Emily Dickinson and the Electro-Magnetic Telegraph." American Quarterly 55 (2003): 569-601. Pollak, Viviam R., ed. A Historical Guide to Emily Dickinson. New York: Oxford UP, 2004. 240 pp. $50.00 /$19.95 paper. Doolittle, Hilda Friedman, Susan Stanford, ed. Analyzing Freud: Letters of H. D., Bryher, and Their Circle. New York: New Directions, 2002. 615 pp. $39.95. Dye, Eva Emery Browne, Sheri Bartlett. Eva Emery Dye: Romance with the West. Corvallis: Oregon State UP, 2004. 192 pp. $24.95 paper. Frankenstein, Irma Rosenthal Steinberg, Ellen FitzSimmons. Irma: A Chicago Woman's Story, 1871-1966. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2004. 252 pp. $49.95 /$19.95 paper. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins Knight, Denise D. "'Only a Husband's Opinion': Walter Stetson's View of Gilman's 'The Yellow Wall-Paper'—An Inscription." American Literary Realism 36 (2003): 86-87. Van Wienen, Mark W. "A Rose by Any Other Name: Charlotte Perkins Stetson (Gilman) and the Case for American Reform Socialism." American Quarterly 55 (2003): 603-34. Harper, Frances See Nerad on Child. Hopkins, Pauline Knadler, Stephen. "Traumatized Racial Performativity: Passing in Nineteenth-Century African-American Testimonies." Cultural Critique 55 (2003): 63-100. Hurston, Zora Neale Croft, Robert W. A Zora Neale Hurston Companion. Westport: Greenwood P, 2002. 256 pp. $74.95. Rieger, Christopher. "The Working-Class Pastoral of Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee." Mississippi Quarterly 56 (2002-3): 105-24. Jackson, Helen Hunt Irwin, Robert McKee. "Ramona and Postnationalist American Studies: On 'Our America' and the Mexican Borderlands." American Quarterly 55 (2003): 539-67. Jacobs, Harriet King, Lovalerie. "Counter-Discourses on the Racialization of Theft and Ethics in Douglass's Narrative and Jacobs's Incidents." MELUS 28.4 (2003): 55-82. Taylor, Douglas. "From Slavery to Prison: Benjamin Rush, Harriet Jacobs, and the Ideology of Reformative Incarceration." Genre 35 (2002): 429-47. Larsen, Nella Harrison-Kahan, Lori. "Her 'Nig': Returning the Gaze of Nella Larsen's Passing." Modern Language Studies 32.2 (2002): 109-38. Lee, Mary Greenhow Phipps, Sheila R. Genteel Rebel: The Life of Mary Greenhow Lee. Baton Rouge...

Below is a selected sampling of current books, articles, and dissertations relevant to the study of American women writers from the seventeenth through the early twentieth centuries. Prices unless otherwise indicated are for hardcover editions. Individual Authors Adams, Hannah Everton, Michael J. "The Courtesies of Authorship: Hannah Adams and Authorial Ethics in the Early Republic." Legacy 20 (2003): 1-21. Alcott, Louisa May Deese, Helen R., ed. "Memoranda and Documents: Louisa May Alcott's Moods: A New Archival Discovery." New England Quarterly 76 (2003): 439-55. Bishop, Elizabeth Costello, Bonnie. "Elizabeth Bishop's Impersonal Personal." American Literary History 15 (2003): 334-66. Bonner, Sherwood McKee, Kathryn B. "'Honey, Yer Ain't Harf as Smart as Yer Thinks Yer Is!': Race and Humor in Sherwood Bonner's Short Fiction." Southern Literary Journal 35.1 (2002): 28-46. Cather, Willa See also the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial Newsletter. Elz, A. Elizabeth. "The Awakening and A Lost Lady: Flying with Broken Wings and Raked Feathers." Southern Literary Journal 35.2 (2003): 13-27. Kot, Paula. "Speculation, Tourism, and The Professor's House." Twentieth-Century Literature 48 (2002): 393-426. Kuhlken, Pam Fox. "Hallowed Ground: Landscape as Hagiography in Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop." Christianity and Literature 52 (2003): 367-85. Ryan, Melissa. "The Enclosure of America: Civilization and Confinement in Willa Cather's O Pioneers!." American Literature 75 (2003): 275-303. Sánchez, María Carla. "Immovable: Willa Cather's Logic of Art and Place." Western American Literature 38 (2003): 117-30. Stich, Klaus P. "Historical and Archetypal Intimations of the Grail Myth in Cather's One of Ours and The Professor's House." TSLL: Texas Studies in Literature and Language 45 (2003): 201-30. Wilson, Sarah. "'Fragmentary and Inconclusive' Violence: National History and Literary Form in The Professor's House." American Literature 75 (2003): 571-99. Childress, Alice Hawkins, Alfonso W. "The Nurture of African American Youth in the Fiction of Ann Petry, Alice Childress, [End Page 113] and Gloria Naylor." CLA Journal 46 (2003): 457-77. Chopin, Kate See Elz on Cather. Dyer, Joyce. "Reading The Awakening with Toni Morrison." Southern Literary Journal 35.1 (2002): 138-54. Maguire, Roberta S. "Kate Chopin and Anna Julia Cooper: Critiquing Kentucky and the South." Southern Literary Journal 35.1 (2002): 123-137. Rich, Charlotte. "Reconsidering The Awakening: The Literary Sisterhood of Kate Chopin and George Egerton." Southern Quarterly 41.3 (2003): 121-36. Cooper, Anna Julia See Maguire on Chopin. Craigin, Elisabeth Yarbrough, Dona. "A Queer Form of Trauma: Lesbian Epistolarity in Either is Love." American Literature 75 (2003): 367-93. Davis, Rebecca Harding Lasseter, Janice Milner. "From the Archives: The Censored and Uncensored Literary Lives of Life in the Iron-Mills." Legacy 20 (2003): 175-90. Silver, Andrew. "'Unnatural Unions': Picturesque Travel, Sexual Politics, and Working-Class Representation in 'A Night Under Ground' and 'Life in the Iron-Mills.'" Legacy 20 (2003): 94-117. De Cleyre, Voltairine DeLamotte, Eugenia. "Refashioning the Mind: The Revolutionary Rhetoric of Voltairine de Cleyre." Legacy 20 (2003): 153-74. Dickinson, Emily Clarke, Graham, ed. Emily Dickinson: Critical Assessments. 4 vols. Robertsbridge, Sussex, UK: Helm Information Ltd., 2003. 3016 pp. $600.00. Doolittle, Hilda [h. D.] Morris, Adalaide. How to Live/ What to Do: H.D.'s Cultural Poetics. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2003. 296 pp. $34.95. Eaton, Edith Maude [sui Sin Far] Song, Min Hyoung. "Sentimentalism and Sui Sin Far." Legacy 20 (2003): 134-52. Fauset, Jessie Jones, Sharon L. Rereading the Harlem Renaissance: Race, Class, and Gender in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dorothy West. Westport: Praeger, 2002. 159 pp. $62.95. Foote, Mary Hallock Smith, Christine Hull. Reading A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West: The Reminiscences of Mary Hallock Foote. Boise: Boise State UP, 2002. 52 pp. $5.95 paper. Fuller, Margaret Belasco, Susan. "'The animating influences of discord': Margaret Fuller in 1844." Legacy 20 (2003): 76-93. Gilman, Charlotte Perkins Knight, Denise D., and Cynthia J. Davis, eds. Approaches to Teaching Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper...

Reviewed by: Girls’ Series Fiction and Popular Culture by Luella D’Amico Anna Lockhart (bio) Luella D’Amico. Girls’ Series Fiction and Popular Culture. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016. Luella D’Amico’s impetus for her collection, Girls’ Series Fiction in Popular Culture, is what she sees as the erasure of series fiction in scholarly circles. In this chronologically ordered group of essays, she aims to show that girls’ series fiction reflects and informs popular culture and girlhood in essence. The essays give diligent attention to its subjects and shed light on unexamined corners of the genre. What distinguishes this group of essays from previous similar studies, which are still rare, is the way that the essays converse with each other in unexpected ways. Not only do the readings here illuminate some unexplored or unstudied works, but D’Amico has included a dynamic and diverse breadth of authors and focuses, allowing for the similarities and complications between seemingly disparate works in this genre to bounce off of each other—the mark of a good collection and skillful editor. Scholars and students of children’s literature as well as cultural criticism, American history, childhood, and girlhood studies will find this collection useful and interesting. The collection begins with Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. In her essay, “Louisa May Alcott’s Theater of Time,” Marlowe Daly-Galeano examines both the ways that time defines the series genre and this series especially, in that it [End Page 90] keeps readers waiting for the next installment, thus expanding the narrative and delaying its end. In serial fiction time it is both elastic and finite; while characters may stay the same age in a timeless world, their readers count on its extension to prolong the pleasure of reading and to delay closure. Motifs of performance and theater in Little Women—Alcott’s authorial narration of closing the curtains on certain chapters of the story, for example—make time itself an important element to the ways readers interact with the series. Building on this, Daly-Galeano explores how time and aging affect girls and women in particular, in the ways that the girls’ lives are prescribed based on expected milestones, for example, and anxieties surrounding women’s aging. Time also intersects with change in “Queering the Katy Series: Disability, Emotion, and Imagination in the Novels of Susan Coolidge.” There, Eva Lupold complicates dominant scholarship on Susan Coolidge’s Katy series that reads Katy’s paralysis as a problematic taming of a spirited girl into a properly domesticated woman. Lupold shows how Katy’s disability opens up possibilities for the girl and for readers. If the disabled body, and the female body, is abjected from the mainstream, disability “allows for the queering of traditional norms and the development of character” (38). Other essays show the ways that girls’ series registered changes in attitudes toward girls and labor in the early twentieth century. Christiane Farnan’s analysis of The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew looks at how the hardworking Polly Pepper, “wanted” and admired by family, employers, and peers, could serve as a model for readers to negotiate and garner value through “girl labor” in a patriarchal capitalism. Paige Gray’s article on L. Frank Baum’s series, Oz and the Aunt Jane books (published as Edith Van Dyne), demonstrates correlations between the evolution of the female journalist and Baum’s girl protagonists. In particular, she links women’s roles in the public sphere with the normalization and simultaneous novelty of “girl talk” that is made popular in series fiction for girls (72). Similarly, Linda Simon looks at the independent Cherry Ames, teenage nurse, in her paper “Cherry Ames: A New Woman for the 1940s.” These essays strike a balance between mere praise of the works as feminist triumphs and nuanced studies with historical context. Nancy Drew’s monolithic presence in series fiction is touched upon in fresh ways, as in Michael Cornelius’s “Nancy Drew’s Shadow,” which looks at the mystery-solving Trixie Belden, a less polished and thus more relatable descendent of Nancy. Carolyn Cocca, in “The Bob-Whites of the Belden-Wheeler Detective Agency,” submits that while the Trixie Belden series...

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