2012 Studies In American Culture - 35.1
Articles
Benjamin Bateman,
Queer Coquetry: Communalizing the Death Drive in Hannah Foster's The Coquette
Laura Savu
"Souls Shifted Sideways": The Ethics and Aesthetics of Affect in Post-9/11 Narrative
Bridget Kevane and Sara Rushing
Homeland Insecurity: Ilan Stavans, On Borrowed Words, and the Emergent Latino-Jewish Literature
Pearl Amelia McHaney
Sensing Eudora Welty's New Orleans
Margaret T. McGehee
Dynamiting the Levees: The South in Dave Egger's Zeitoun
Portfolio
David Wharton
The Spiritual Landscape of the American South
Reviews
Daniel Cross Turner
The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera: An Insider's History of the Florida-Alabama Coast, by Harvey H. Jackson III
David Fillingim
Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?: A Historical Introduction, by John Fea
Jenny O. Ramirez
American Orient: Imagining the East from the Colonial Era through the Twentieth Century, By David Weir
Julian Chambliss
Wanted: The Outlaw in American Visual Culture, By Rachel Hall
Trent Watts
Reload: Rethinking Violence in American Life, by Christopher B. Strain
Margaret Earley Whitt
What Adolescents Ought to Know: Sexual Health Texts in Early Twentieth-Century America, by Jennifer Burek Pierce
Mary Cathryn Cain
American Pietas: Visions of Race, Death and the Maternal, by Ruby C. Tapia
Louis Blair
The Presidency in the Twenty-First Century, Edited by Charles W. Dunn
John Leland
Marching in Step: Masculinity, Citizenship, an The Citadel in Post-World War II America, by Alexander Macauley
Peter Kvidera
Policing Methamphetamine: Narcopolitics in Rural America, by William Garriott
Duncan Richter,
The War on Poverty: A New grassroots History, 1964-1980, edited by Annelise Orleck and Lisa Gayle Hazirjian
Bob Coleman
Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching, by Julie Buckner Armstrong
Caryn Town
Turning the Tables: Restaurants and the Rise of the American Middle Class, 1880-1945, by Andrew P. Haley
Thomas Ruys Smith
Jim Crow's Counterculture: The Blues and Black Southerners, 1890-1945, by R. A. Lawson
Tim McElhannon
Music from the True Vine: Mike Seeger's Life and Musical Journey, by Bill C. Malone
Karen L. Cox
The Battle for the Bs: 1950s Hollywood and the Rebirth of Low-Budget Cinema, by Blair Davis
Dennis Hall
Reel Men at War: Masculinity and the American War Film, by Ralph Donald and Karen MacDonald
Dennis Hall
American Ideal: how American Idol Constructs Celebrity, Collective Identity, and American Discourses, by Amanda Scheiner McClain
Lara Smith-Sitton
The Social Media Reader, edited by Michael Mandiberg
Andrew B. Leiter
Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature, By Gene Andrew Jarrett
Mary Beth Pennington
Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment: Appalachian Women's Literacies, by Erica Abrams Locklear
Alex Pitofsky
This Glorius Struggle: George Washington's Revolutionary War Letters, edited by Edward G. Lengel
Dennis Hall
War Upon the Land: Military Strategy and the Transformation of Southern Landscapes During the American Civil War, by Lisa M. Brady
Jean Cash
Fall Line, by Joe Samuel Starnes
Thomas Douglass
Best of Times, Worst of Times: Contemporary American Short Stories from the New Gilded Age, edited by Wendy Martin and Cecelia Tichi
Notes On Contributors
Cover - Amanda Berrios, "Dolls" (2012)