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European Journal of American Culture - Volume 20, Issue 2, 2001
Volume 20, Issue 2, 2001
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An Interview with Jayne Anne Phillips
More LessJayne Anne Phillips is the author of two collections of short stories, Black Tickets (1975) and Fast Lanes (1987, 2000). She has also written three novels; Machine Dreams (1984), Shelter (1994) and most recently MotherKind (2000). She is currently working on a new novel to be published in 2004. Sarah Robertson is currently working on the writings of Jayne Anne Phillips for her doctoral thesis at Keele University. She has written a conference paper on Shelter (1994) and is presently working on Fast Lanes (1987, 2000). The interview arose from the American Mourning Conference held at Keele in May 2001.
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The Politics of Postnational American Studies
By Donald PeaseThe Politics of Postnational American Studies examines the debate over the reorientation of American Studies along postnationalist coordinates within the context of the responses to Janice Radway's 1998 presidential address to the American Studies Association. Postnational American Studies describes an interdisciplinary formation that would change the epistemological objects and introduce an alternative politics of power and knowledge for the field. But the postnational does not operate on its own; it is a construction that is internally differentiated out of its intersection with other unfolding relations. The Politics of Postnational American Studies describes a contest between on the one hand the postnational state that serves the transnational corporations and facilitates its needs for exploitable labor and on the other hand the transnational social movements and subnational collective practices that seek to reorganize gendered and racialized capitalist relations around more equitable social and economic standards.
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Gothic Logic: Charles Brockden Brown and the Science of Sensationalism
More LessThis essay argues that in his particular brand of transatlantic Gothicism, Charles Brockden Brown (17711810) grafts an earlier, European branch of the Gothic narrative of the incredible and the supernatural on to the New World/New England strand of the apparition tale, producing in effect a vernacular American Gothic narrative of the empirical beyond in which printing and the discourse of science helped create bizarre and detailed tales reflecting the contemporaneous cultural forces of growing skepticism and materialism.
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That florid, swaggering gesture: Faulkners Thomas Sutpen as Southern Writer
More LessThis paper considers Absalom, Absalom!'s Thomas Sutpen as an artist figure, discussing his life in terms of Bakhtin's continual mutual interaction between work and world. By treating Sutpen's career as a self-constructed narrative, we can assess anew both his rise and fall, and the extent to which he can be called a representative Southerner.
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Book Reviews
Maria Lauret, Alice Walker. Houndmills and London: Macmillan Press, 2000, x+252pp., ISBN 0-333-59269-7 Cloth: 45.00; ISBN 0-333-59270-0 Paper: 14.99.
Julie Ellison, Cato's Tears and the Making of Anglo-American Writing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 242pp. ISBN 0-226-205967 Paper: 11.50; ISBN 0-226-205959 Cloth: 28.00.
Alan J. Rice & Martin Crawford (eds.), Liberating Sojourn: Frederick Douglass and Transatlantic Reform. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1999, vii + 217pp. ISBN 0-8203-2102-8 Cloth: 45.00; ISBN 0-8203-2129-X Paper: 20.00.
Walter Nugent and Martin Ridge (eds.), The American West: The Anthology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999. 440pp. Paper: 14.95; Cloth: 30.50
Lindon Barrett, Blackness and Value: Seeing Double. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 272pp. ISBN 0-521-62103-8 Cloth: 37.50.
Charles Scruggs and Lee VanDemarr, Jean Toomer and the Terrors of American History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 318pp. ISBN 0-8122-3451-0 Cloth: 33.50.
Henry James, Hawthorne, edited by Kate Fullbrook. Nottingham: Trent Editions, 1999, xxiii+149pp. ISBN 0-905488-43-1 Paper: 6.99.
Susan J. Rosowski, Editor, Cather Studies, Volume 3. Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 303pp. ISBN-0-8032-3920-3 Cloth: 42.75.
Keith Newlin and Joseph B. McCullough (eds.), Selected Letters of Hamlin Garland. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998, xl+468pp. ISBN 0-8032-2160-6 Cloth: 52.00.
Jeffrey J. Folks and Nancy Summer Folks (eds.), The World Is Our Home: Society and Culture in Contemporary Southern Writing. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000, 288pp. ISBN 0-8131-2166-3 Cloth: 29.95.
Catherine Ross Nickerson, The Web of Iniquity: Early Detective Fiction by American Women, Durham & London, Duke University Press, 1998, 275pp. ISBN 0-8223-2271-4, Cloth: 34.00; ISBN 0-8223-2251-X Paper: 11.95.
Rick Altman, The American Film Musical. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 400pp. ISBN 0-253-20514-X- Paper: 19.95.
Karl Kroeber (ed.), Traditional Literatures of the American Indian: Texts and Interpretations (Second Edition), Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1997, 159pp. ISBN 0-8032-2733-7 Cloth: 32.95; ISBN 0-8032-7782-2 Paper 10.95.
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Volumes & issues
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Volume 42 (2023)
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Volume 41 (2022)
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Volume 40 (2021)
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Volume 39 (2020)
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Volume 38 (2019)
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Volume 37 (2018)
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Volume 36 (2017)
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Volume 35 (2016)
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Volume 34 (2015)
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Volume 33 (2014)
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Volume 32 (2013)
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Volume 31 (2012)
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Volume 30 (2011 - 2012)
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Volume 29 (2010 - 2011)
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Volume 28 (2009)
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Volume 27 (2008)
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Volume 26 (2007 - 2008)
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Volume 24 (2005)
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Volume 23 (2004)
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Volume 22 (2003)
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Volume 21 (2002)
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