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"The Lookout" character analysis	Beauty, brains, and bylines: Comparing the female journalist in the fiction of Sherryl Woods and Sarah Shankman

Everything, Nothing, Something, Always (Walla!)	Jack McEvoy: From his rise to fame to the end of his game

Wonder boys: Tales of the extraordinarily queer adolescent	Literature as narrative ethics: Ethics, religion, and scripture in Barbara Kingsolver's "The Poisonwood Bible"

Lahontan: A novel, and, "A million miles from God, three feet from hell": Aesthetics and the literature of Nevada	Undermining common sense: Racial legislation, comedy, and the family

Troubling the boundaries: "Blacknesses," performance and the African American freedom struggle of the 1960s	The Hollywood Left: cinematic art and activism in the 1930s

Embodiments of passing: Vito Acconci's poetics of frequency, &, Ta(g) A(c)t	Domestic negotiations: Chicana domesticity as a critical discourse of US literature and culture

The haunted frontier: Troubling gothic conventions in nineteenth-century literature of the American West	"Paper Pavilion" and "Routes through Transnational Adoption"

Simulations/shape-shifting surrealism: Rikki Ducornet's poetry of feminist intersubjectivity	"As shelters against the cold": Women poets of the Black Arts and Chicano movements, 1965--1978

Fabulous potency: Getrude Stein, Truman Capote, authorial personae, and homosexual identity from the Wilde Trials to Stonewall	Nation in uniform: Chicano/Latino war narratives and the construction of nation in the Korean War and Vietnam War, 1951--1976

Pandoramonium: Reading outside the box, dialogues in postmodern historiography and The Dead of Night	Cowboys of the waste land: Modernism and the American frontier

Nature, nurture, nation: Race and childhood in transatlantic American discourses of slavery	On speaking terms: Spirituality and sensuality in the tradition of modern black female intellectualism

The Library of Congress Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature, 1941--1961, and, Famous Birds, a collection of poems	Labor, performance, and theatre: Strike culture and the emergence of organized labor in the 1930's

Partial arts: Poetic obsessions with the fragment	Vietnam War drama 1966-2008: American theatrical responses to the war and its aftermath

From captors to captives: American Indian responses to popular American narrative forms	The mythology of Nat Turner: Black theology and black revolt in the shaping of American myth and symbol

Through the bottom of a glass darkly: Narrative, alcohol, and identity in temperance and Prohibition-era texts	Representing the unnarratable: "Feminist terrorism" and the problem of realism in the novel

'Machines made of words': Poets, technology, and the mediation of subjectivity and Pomegranate-Eater (poems)	Carrying the fire home: Performing nation, identity, indigenous diaspora and home in the poems, songs, and performances of Arigon Starr, Joy Harjo and Gayle Ross

Solidarity, violence, and the political imagination: Chicana literary imaginings of the Central American civil wars, 1981--2005	Contemporary grotesqueries: The multifaceted grotesque as an aesthetic and political strategy of resistance 1968-2008

The reformation of the world: History, revelation, and reform in the antebellum American romance	Splitting Aztlan: American resistance and Chicana visions of a radical utopia

Going beyond the victory garden: War, gender, and women of national concern	Labors of love: Reading queer female kinship in the melodramatic mode

The end of illustration: The photographic novels of Henry James, Andre Breton, Virginia Woolf, and W. G. Sebald	Domestic containment: Japanese Americans, Native Americans, and the cultural politics of relocation

Unsettling the nation: Anti-colonial nationalism and narratives of the non-Western world in U.S. literature and culture, 1783--1860	OmegaKondre, and, Horseface minstrelsy in the western