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    Grotesque relations modernist domestic fiction and the U.S. welfare state / by Edmunds, Susan, 1961-

    Published 2008
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction: "As with a startling picture" : modernism and the domestic sphere -- "For she asks forever only help" : the critique of maternalist reform discourse in Djuna Barnes's Ryder -- Tortured bodies and twisted words : the antidomestic vision of Jean Toomer's Cane -- Freaked : eastern European immigration and the "American home" in Edna Ferber's American beauty -- "Not sentimental" : the double bind of white working-class femininity in Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio -- Siren calls : consumer revolution and the body beautiful in Nathanael West's The day of the locust -- "Not charity yet!" …”
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    Messing with romance American poetics and antebellum southern fiction / by Ackermann, Zeno

    Published 2012
    Table of Contents: “…Salvational hybridizations: John P. Kennedy's Swallow barn (1832) -- 4. Titling the balance: Kennedy's and Caruthers' historical romances (1834-45) -- 5. …”
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    Afro-Future Females : Black Writer's Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory /

    Published 2008
    Table of Contents: “…sociobiology in images of African-American sensuality in contemporary cinema: or, why we'd better the hell claim Vin Diesel as our own / Steven Barnes -- A conversation with Samuel R. Delany about sex, gender, race, writing-and science fiction / Samuel R. …”
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