Focus: New American Studies — November / December 2011

New American Studies

Volume 33, Number 1
November-December 2011

Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.

Robert P. Marzec’s “Introduction to Focus: New Directions in New American Studies”

Daniel T. O’Hara reviews Donald E. Pease’s The New American Exceptionalism

Ursula K. Heise reviews eds. Elizabeth DeLoughrey and George B. Handley’s Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment

George B. Handley reviews Rob Nixon’s Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor

Bill V. Mullen reviews Grace Lee Boggs’s The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century

Donald E. Pease reviews William V. Spanos’s The Legacy of Edward W. Said

John Riofrio reviews David J. Vázquez’s Triangulations: Narrative Strategies for Navigating Latino Identity

Feature: Back Beat

John Tytell reviews Gordon Ball’s East Hill Farm: Seasons with Allen Ginsberg

Davis Schneiderman reviews William S. Burroughs’s Queer: 25th-Anniversary Edition

Debut Novels

David Holub reviews William Giraldi’s Busy Monsters

Anne Derrig reviews Z.K. Burrus’s Senestre on Vacation

xTx reviews Lavinia Ludlow’s alt.punk

Book Reviews

Robin Black reviews Andrew Scott’s Naked Summer

Christian Moraru reviews Chang-rae Lee’s The Surrendered

Marshall Yarbrough reviews Chris Bachelder’s Abbott Awaits

Ben Tanzer reviews Brian Allen Carr’s Short Bus

Jay Shearer reviews Michael Hemmingson’s Pictures of Houses with Water Damage

Daniel S. Libman reviews Michael Kimball’s Us

CL Bledsoe reviews Corey Mesler’s Before the Great Troubling

Melanie Page reviews Heather Fowler’s Suspended Heart

Cay Dollerup reviews Orrin W. Robinson’s Grimm Language: Grammar, Gender and Genuineness in the Fairy Tales

William M. Clements reviews Ned Buntline’s The Hero of a Hundred Fights: Collected Stories from the Dime Novel King, from Buffalo Bill to Wild Bill Hickok

Dinda L. Gorlée reviews Annika Thor’s A Faraway Island

Ann Bogle reviews Molly Gaudry’s We Take Me Apart

Mike Krutel reviews Steve Kistulentz’s The Luckless Age

Renee Risher reviews Jennifer Tamayo’s Red Missed Aches Read Missed Aches Red Mistakes Read Mistakes

Monica Hooper reviews Jim Daniels’s (with Jane McCafferty) From Milltown to Malltown

Vilmos Voigt reviews Desmond Morris’s Owl

Departments

Page 2—Jeffrey R. Di Leo’s “Hide It from the Kids”

From Our Own—Alissa Nutting reviews Tom Williams’s The Mimic’s Own Voice