Preface–Gerry Canavan and Priscilla Wald

A World of Difference: Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren and the Protocols of Racial Reading–Mark Chia-Yon Jerng

Frank Reade, Jr., in Cuba: Dime-Novel Technology, U.S. Imperialism, and the "American Jules Verne"–Nathaniel Williams

Tarzan's White Flights: Terrorism and Fantasy before and after the Airplane–Aaron Bady

Toward a Cosmopolitan Science Fiction–David M. Higgins

"Where No X-Man Has Gone Before!" Mutant Superheroes and the Cultural Politics of Popular Fantasy in Postwar America–Ramzi Fawaz

Clean: Death and Desire in Samuel R. Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand–Robert F. Reid-Pharr

The Predisposed Agency of Genomic Fiction–Everett Hamner

Book Reviews

Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible; Displacing the Divine: The Minister in the Mirror of American Fiction; Transforming Scriptures: African American Women Writers and the Biblee–Claudia Stokes

Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible. By Robert Alter. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2010. 198 pp. $19.95.

Displacing the Divine: The Minister in the Mirror of American Fiction. By Douglas Alan Walrath. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2010. xvi, 379 pp. $55.00.

Transforming Scriptures: African American Women Writers and the Bible. By Katherine Clay Bassard. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2009. viii, 166 pp. $44.95.

Affecting Fictions: Mind, Body, and Emotion in American Literary Realism; American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman; Private Lives, Proper Relations: Regulating Black Intimacy–Marianne Noble

Affecting Fictions: Mind, Body, and Emotion in American Literary Realism. By Jane F. Thrailkill. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2007. 312 pp. $45.00.

American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman. By Max Cavitch. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2007. viii, 352 pp. Cloth, $67.50; paper, $22.50.

Private Lives, Proper Relations: Regulating Black Intimacy. By Candice M. Jenkins. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2007. 250 pp. Cloth, $67.50; paper, $22.50.

Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England; Indian Work: Language and Livelihood in Native American History; X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent–Mark Rifkin

Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England. By Jean M. O'Brien. Minneapolis: Univ. Minnesota Press. 2010. xxvi, 269 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $24.95.

Indian Work: Language and Livelihood in Native American History. By Daniel H. Usner Jr. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2009. 202 pp. $49.95.

X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent. By Scott Richard Lyons. Minneapolis: Univ. Minnesota Press. 2010. xiv, 220 pp. Paper, $22.50.

The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism; Nations of Nothing but Poetry: Modernism, Transnationalism, and Synthetic Vernacular Writing–Michael Soto

The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism. By Enda Duffy. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2009. 306 pp. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95.

Nations of Nothing but Poetry: Modernism, Transnationalism, and Synthetic Vernacular Writing. By Matthew Hart. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2010. xiii, 240 pp. $49.95.

Entitled to the Pedestal: Place, Race, and Progress in White Southern Women's Writing, 1920–1945; Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Prosperity on the Postslavery Plantation–Katie McKee

Entitled to the Pedestal: Place, Race, and Progress in White Southern Women's Writing, 1920–1945. By Nghana Tamu Lewis. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2007. xiv, 208 pp. $37.95.

Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Prosperity on the Postslavery Plantation. By Jessica Adams. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2007. xi, 226 pp. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $23.95.

Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950–1963; Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature–Stephanie LeMenager

Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950–1963. By Kevin Starr. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2009. xi, 564 pp. $34.95.

Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature. By John Beck. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2009. 366 pp. $55.00.

Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity: Returning Medusa's Gaze; Legba's Crossing: Narratology in the African Atlantic–Anne Gulick

Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity: Returning Medusa's Gaze. By Maria Cristina Fumagalli. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2009. x, 198 pp. Cloth, $59.50; paper, $22.50.

Legba's Crossing: Narratology in the African Atlantic. By Heather Russell. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2009. xi, 202 pp. $44.95.

Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South; Ends of Empire: Asian American Critique and the Cold War; Unfastened: Globality and Asian North American Narratives–Patricia E. Chu

Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South. By Leslie Bow. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2010. x, 285 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00.

Ends of Empire: Asian American Critique and the Cold War. By Jodi Kim. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2010. 305 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00.

Unfastened: Globality and Asian North American Narratives. By Eleanor Ty. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2010. xxxvii, 175 pp. Paper, $22.50.

Native Liberty: Natural Reason and Cultural Survivance; Writing Indian, Native Conversations; Native American Drama: A Critical Perspective–Elizabeth Archuleta

Native Liberty: Natural Reason and Cultural Survivance. By Gerald Vizenor. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2009. ix, 321 pp. Paper, $30.00.

Writing Indian, Native Conversations. By John Lloyd Purdy. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2009. xvii, 282 pp. $45.00.

Native American Drama: A Critical Perspective. By Christy Stanlake. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2009. xi, 242 pp. Cloth, $99.00; paper, $35.99.

From Gutenberg to Google: Electronic Representations of Literary Texts; Digitize This Book! The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now; Poetic Acts and New Media–Lisa Swanstrom

From Gutenberg to Google: Electronic Representations of Literary Texts. By Peter L. Shillingsburg. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2006. v, 216 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $29.95.

Digitize This Book! The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now. By Gary Hall. Minneapolis: Minnesota Univ. Press. 2008. vii, 301 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $19.99.

Poetic Acts and New Media. By Tom O'Connor. Lanham, Md.: Univ. Press of America. 2006. xxxvi, 174 pp. Paper, $28.95.

The Interethnic Imagination: Roots and Passages in Contemporary Asian American Fiction; The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies: Autonomy and Representation in the University–Victor Bascara

The Interethnic Imagination: Roots and Passages in Contemporary Asian American Fiction. By Caroline Rody. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2009. xx, 196 pp. $65.00.

The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies: Autonomy and Representation in the University. By Mark Chiang. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2009. viii, 251 pp. Cloth, $78.00; paper, $23.00.

Out of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel; American Multiculturalism after 9/11: Transatlantic Perspectives–Elisabeth Anker

Out of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel. By Kristiaan Versluys. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2009. x, 226 pp. Cloth, $79.50; paper, $24.50.

American Multiculturalism after 9/11: Transatlantic Perspectives. Ed. Derek Rubin and Jaap Verheul. Amsterdam: Amsterdam Univ. Press. 2010. 244 pp. $39.95.

In Memoriam

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