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Spirited Away: The Death of Little Eva and the Farewell Performances of “Katie King”

BRIDGET BENNETT

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 1-16
doi:10.1017/S0021875806000740 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Don DeLillo's Transatlantic Dialogue with Sergei Eisenstein

CATHERINE MORLEY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 17-34
doi:10.1017/S0021875806000715 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Gendered Strategies for Success in the Early Nineteenth-Century Literary Marketplace: Mary Carr and the Ladies' Tea Tray

SUSAN BRANSON

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 35-51
doi:10.1017/S0021875806000727 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Carrying the Burden of Representation: Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions

JIM PEACOCK

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 53-69
doi:10.1017/S0021875806000752 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Body, Word, and Photograph: Sylvia Plath's Cold War Collage and the Thalidomide Scandal

ROBIN PEEL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 71-95
doi:10.1017/S0021875806000739 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Lenny Bruce and his Nuclear Shadow Marvin Lundy: Don DeLillo's Apocalyptists Extraordinaires

ELIZABETH ROSEN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 97-112
doi:10.1017/S0021875806000764 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Fahrenheit 9/11: The Temperature Where Morality Burns

CYNTHIA WEBER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 113-131
doi:10.1017/S0021875806000776 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Of Nonlimited Locality/Identity: Chinese Diaspora Poetry in America

BENZI ZHANG

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 133-153
doi:10.1017/S0021875806000788 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Reviews

 
 

Rick Altman, Silent Film Sound (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005, £32.50). Pp. x+462. ISBN 0 231 11662 4.

DAVID SEED

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 155-155
doi:10.1017/S0021875806211319 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Women and Social Movements in the United States: 1600–2000 (Alexander Street Press, 1997–ongoing subscriptions range in price from £156 for an individual school building or public library, £234 for a small college or university or a large urban public library to £623 for a research university. Perpetual rights available at £4,643 for content through June 2006 with annual archival copy of the year's added content and then £1682 annually). Access via http://www.alexanderstreetpress.com/wasm then by user id and password.

MARGARET WALSH

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 156-159
doi:10.1017/S0021875806221315 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Paul Apostolidis and Juliet A. Williams (eds.), Public Affairs: Politics in the Age of Sex Scandals (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2004, £60.00 cloth, £14.95 paper). Pp. 280. ISBN 0 8223 3276 0 and 0 8223 3265 5.

JAMES G. RYAN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 159-160
doi:10.1017/S0021875806231311 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Christopher Bigsby (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to David Mamet (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, £15.99 (pbk)). Pp. ix+266. ISBN 0 521 89468 9.

ANDREW RADFORD

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 160-161
doi:10.1017/S0021875806241318 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Frankie Y. Bailey and Steven Chermak (eds.), Famous American Crimes and Trials. 5 Vols (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004, £210.00). Pp. 1434. ISBN 0 275 9833 1 (set).

HEIDI SLETTEDAHL MACPHERSON

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 161-163
doi:10.1017/S0021875806251314 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Thomas Borstelmann, The Cold War and the Color Line (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2001, £12.95). Pp. xi+369. ISBN 0 674 01238 0.

MARK NEWMAN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 163-164
doi:10.1017/S0021875806261310 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Anne E. Boyd, Writing for Immortality: Women Writers and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, $55.00). Pp. 305. ISBN 0 8018 7875 6.

CLAIRE BROCK

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 164-165
doi:10.1017/S0021875806271317 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Kevin Boyle, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2004, $26.00). Pp. 432. ISBN 0 0850 7145 8.

KATE DOSSETT

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 165-166
doi:10.1017/S0021875806281313 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Kathryn E. Holland Braund (ed.), The History of the American Indians [by James Adair] (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005, £45.95). Pp. xiv+589. ISBN 0 8173 1393 1.

RICHARD A. HAWKINS

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 166-166
doi:10.1017/S002187580629131X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Anna Brickhouse, Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, £45.00/$70.00). Pp. 342. ISBN 0 521 84172 0.

ASHLEY HALES

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 167-167
doi:10.1017/S0021875806301314 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Peter Cowie, John Ford and the American West (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Incorporated, 2004, £29.95) Pp. 224. ISBN 0 8109 4976 8.

SUSAN FORSYTH

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 168-168
doi:10.1017/S0021875806311310 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy, Capital Resurgent: Roots of the Neoliberal Revolution (Cambridge, MA and London, Harvard University Press, 2004, £35.95, cloth). Pp. vi+249. ISBN 0 674 01158 9.

J. R. KILLICK

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 169-170
doi:10.1017/S0021875806331313 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Gerald Duchovnay (ed.), Film Voices: Interviews From Post Script (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2004, $29.95). Pp. xvi+346. ISBN 0 7914 6155 6 and 0 7914 6156 4 (pbk).

MIKE CHOPRA-GANT

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 169-169
doi:10.1017/S0021875806321317 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Camelia Elias, The Fragment: Towards a History and Poetics of a Performative Genre (Bern: Peter Lang, 2004, £43,30). Pp. 400. ISBN 3 03910 470 5.

POLINA MACKAY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 170-171
doi:10.1017/S002187580634131X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Glenn Feldman, The Disfranchisement Myth: Poor Whites and Suffrage Restriction in Alabama (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2004, $39.95). Pp. 328. ISBN 0 8203 2615 1.

BRUCE E. BAKER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 171-172
doi:10.1017/S0021875806351316 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Leigh Fought, Southern Womanhood and Slavery: A Biography of Louisa S. McCord, 1810–1879 (Columbia, MO and London: University of Missouri Press, 2003, $32.50). Pp. xiv+216. ISBN 0 8262 1470 3.

S.-M. GRANT

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 172-173
doi:10.1017/S0021875806361312 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer, It Happened in the Catskills (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004, $26.95). Pp. 245. ISBN 0 299 20604 1.

JOE KENNEDY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 173-174
doi:10.1017/S0021875806371319 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Gilbert G. Gonzalez, Raul Fernandez, Vivian Price, David Smith and Linda Trinh Vö (eds.), Labor Versus Empire: Race, Gender, and Migration (Abingdon, Oxon. and New York: Routledge, 2004, £65.00 cloth/£16.99 paper). Pp. xxxiii+272. ISBN 0 415 948142, 0 415 94815 0.

LEWES

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 174-175
doi:10.1017/S0021875806381315 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Steve Halper and Jonathan Clarke, America Alone: The Neo-conservatives and the Global Order (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, £20.00). Pp. 339. ISBN 0 521 83834 7.

DAVID MILNE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 175-176
doi:10.1017/S0021875806391311 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

David Ingram, Green Screen: Environmentalism and Hollywood Cinema (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2004, £14.99). Pp. 230. ISBN 0 85989 609 9.

TERRY GIFFORD

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 176-177
doi:10.1017/S0021875806401316 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Kathryn Jay, More than Just a Game: Sports in American Life since 1945 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004, £19.50, $27.95). Pp. vii+287. ISBN 0 231 12534 8.

S. W. POPE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 177-178
doi:10.1017/S0021875806411312 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Dominic D.P. Johnson, Overconfidence and War: The Havoc and Glory of Positive Illusions (Harvard University Press, 2004, £17.00, $26.95). Pp. 288. ISBN 0 674 01576 2.

BINOY KAMPMARK

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 178-179
doi:10.1017/S0021875806421319 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Michael Kammen, A Time to Every Purpose: The Four Seasons in American Culture (Chapell Hill & London: University of North Carolina Press, 2004, $39.95). Pp. 336. ISBN 0 8078 2836 X.

GEORGE CONYNE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 179-179
doi:10.1017/S0021875806431315 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Linda K. Karell, Writing Together/Writing Apart: Collaboration in Western American Literature (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002, £37.95). Pp. 219. ISBN 0 803 22749 3.

BARBARA WILL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 180-180
doi:10.1017/S0021875806441311 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Desmond King, The Liberty of Strangers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, £18.50 hardback). Pp. viii+229. ISBN 0 19 514638 7.

DANIEL MCKAY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 181-182
doi:10.1017/S0021875806461314 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Philip Kasinitz, John H. Mollenkopf and Mary C. Waters (eds.), Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the New Second Generation (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004, £$39.95 cloth). Pp. 419. ISBN 0 87154 436 9.

HOLLY FARRINGTON

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 181-181
doi:10.1017/S0021875806451318 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Philip C. Kolin (ed.), The Tennessee Williams Encyclopedia (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2004, $89.95). Pp. 384. ISBN 0 313 32101 9.

GARRY MACIVER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 182-183
doi:10.1017/S0021875806471310 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Bruce B. Lawrence, New Faiths, Old Fears (Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, 2002, £11.00 paper). Pp. xvi+197. ISBN 0 231 11520 2.

DANIEL MCKAY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 183-184
doi:10.1017/S0021875806481317 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Steve Lerner, Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2005, £18.95 hardback). Pp. xiv+303. ISBN 0 262 12273 1.

MARTYN BONE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 184-185
doi:10.1017/S0021875806491313 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Gordon B. McKinney, Zeb Vance: North Carolina's Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004, £31.95 cloth). Pp. 492. ISBN 0 8078 2865 3.

MARTIN CRAWFORD

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 185-186
doi:10.1017/S0021875806501318 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

John F. Marszalek, Commander of All Lincoln's Armies: A Life of General Henry W. Halleck (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2004, £19.95). Pp. 324. ISBN 0 674 01493 6.

FRANK LENNON

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 186-187
doi:10.1017/S0021875806511314 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Deborah Dash Moore, GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation (Cambridge, MA: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2004, $25.95 hardcover). Pp. 352. ISBN 0 674 01509 6.

T. C. WALES

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 187-188
doi:10.1017/S0021875806521310 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Kenneth Morgan (ed.), The British Transatlantic Slave Trade (London: Pickering and Chatto, 4 vols., 2003, £360.00). Pp. 1632. ISBN 1 85196 756 7.

ALAN RICE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 188-189
doi:10.1017/S0021875806531317 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Wilson Jeremiah Moses, Creative Conflict in African American Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, £45.00 hardback). Pp. xviii+308. ISBN 0 521 53537 9.

ANDREW RADFORD

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 189-190
doi:10.1017/S0021875806541313 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Marina Moskowitz, Standard of Living: The Measure of the Middle Class in Modern America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. £32.00). Pp 245. ISBN 0 8018 7947 7.

JOE KENNEDY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 190-191
doi:10.1017/S002187580655131X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Martha Jane Nadell, Enter the New Negroes: Images of Race in American Culture (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2004, $27.95). Pp. 224. ISBN 0 674 01511 8.

KATE DOSSETT

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 191-192
doi:10.1017/S0021875806561316 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Reviel Netz, Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2004, £24.95). Pp. 304. ISBN 0 819 56719 1.

STEPHEN F. MILLS

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 192-193
doi:10.1017/S0021875806571312 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Agata Preis-Smith and Marek Paryz (eds.), The Poetics of America: Explorations in the Literature and Culture of the United States (Warsaw: English Institute, University of Warsaw, 2004, no price given). Pp. 257. ISBN 83 911448 1 X.

JOHN ARMSTRONG

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 193-194
doi:10.1017/S0021875806581319 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Kenneth M. Price, To Walt Whitman, America (Chapel Hill & London: University of North Carolina Press, 2004, $49.95) Pp. 182. ISBN 0 8078 2849 1.

GEORGE CONYNE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 194-194
doi:10.1017/S0021875806591315 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Eithne Quinn, Nuthin’ but a “G” Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004, £15.00 paper). Pp. xiii+251. ISBN 0 231 12409 0.

JOHN WHITE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 195-195
doi:10.1017/S002187580660131X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Eliza Richards, Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, £45.00). Pp. 238. ISBN 0 521 83281 0.

MARY F. BREWER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 196-196
doi:10.1017/S0021875806611316 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Ravi K. Roy and Arthur T. Denzau, Fiscal Policy Convergence from Reagan to Blair: The Left Veers Right (London and New York: Routledge, 2004, $114.95). Pp. xxiv+149. ISBN 0 415 32413 0.

IWAN MORGAN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 197-197
doi:10.1017/S0021875806621312 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Johanna Schoen, Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005, $19.95). Pp. xiv+331. ISBN 0 8078 5585 5.

JENNIFER BLACK

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 198-198
doi:10.1017/S0021875806631319 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Lyde Cullen Sizer and Jim Cullen (eds.), The Civil War Era: An Anthology of Sources (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004, £60.00 cloth, £17.99 paper). Pp. xxviii+434. ISBN 1 4051 0690 5 (cloth), 1 4051 0691 3 (paper).

S.-M GRANT

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 199-200
doi:10.1017/S0021875806651311 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Stuart B. Schwartz (ed.), Tropical Babylons: Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450–1680 (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004, £40.50 cloth, £15.50 paper). Pp. 347. ISBN 0 8078 2875 0 (cloth)–0 8078 5553 3 (paper).

S. D. SMITH

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 199-199
doi:10.1017/S0021875806641315 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Kim C. Sturgess, Shakespeare and the American Nation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, £45.00). Pp. 234. ISBN 0 521 83585 2.

KEITH MEARS

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 201-202
doi:10.1017/S0021875806661318 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Alan Trachtenberg, Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880–1930 (New York: Hill and Wang, 2004, $30.00). Pp. 394. ISBN 0 374 29975 7.

JEAN CHOTHIA

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 202-203
doi:10.1017/S0021875806671314 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
 

Kari J. Winter (ed.), The Blind African Slave, Or Memoirs of Boyreau Brinch Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004, £42.95 cloth/£13.50 paper). Pp. xvi+244. ISBN 0 299 20140 6/0 299 20144 9.

ALAN RICE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 40, Issue 01, April 2006, pp 203-203
doi:10.1017/S0021875806681310 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Apr 2006
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