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University of California Press

January 29, 2015

Books Reviewed by Canadian Literature

Masking Selves, Making Subjects: Japanese American Women, Identity, and the Body by Traise Yamamoto
R's Boat by Lisa Robertson
Jazz Cultures by David Ake
Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia by Sheldon Pollack
Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde by Bill Nichols
The Fire by Miriam Nichols and Robin Blaser
The Holy Forest by Miriam Nichols and Robin Blaser
Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada by Irene Bloemraad
On Human Nature: A Gathering Where Everything Flows, 1967-1984 by Kenneth Burke
Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde by Brenda Austin-Smith and Bill Nichols
Spectacular Realities: Early Mass Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Paris by Vanessa R. Schwartz
The Ethnology of Reading by Jonathan Boyarin
Hiroshima Traces: Time, Space, and the Dialectic of Memory by Lisa Yoneyama
The Aurelian Legacy: British Butterflies and their Collectors by Michael A. Salmon, Peter Marren and Basil Harley
Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond by Yeh Wen-hsin
Chinese Femininities, Chinese Masculinities by Susan Brownell and Jeffrey Wasserstrom
From My Grandmother's Bedside: Sketches of Postwar Tokyo by Norma Field
Splendid Monarchy: Powerand Pageantry in Modern Japan by Takashi Fujitani
Picturing Chinatown: Art and Orientalism in San Francisco by Anthony W. Lee
Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America by Rubén G. Rumbaut and Alejandro Portes
Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown by Nyan Shah
Strangers at the Gates: New Immigrants in Urban America by Roger Waldinger
Jazz Cultures
Bodies out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression by Jana Evans Braziel and Kathleen LeBesco
Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age by David B. Morris
In/Different Spaces: Place and Memory in Visual Culture by Victor Burgin
The Future of the Book by Geoffrey Nunberg
Nationalism and the Nordic Imagination: Swedish Art of the 1890s by Michelle Facos
The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America by Anne Fabian
Telling Lives, Telling History. Autobiography and Historical Imagination in Modern Indonesia by Susan Rodgers
Passport Photos by Amitava Kumar
The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935 by Wanda M. Corn
On the Postcolony by Achille Mbembe
Booking Passage: Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination by Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi
Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac by Gerald Nicosia
The Trouble With Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein and Zukofsky by Bob Perelman
Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It by Brett Millier
Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought by Martin Jay
Thinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, & Postmodernism in the Contemporary West by Jane Flax
Images and Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa by Paul S. Landau and Deborah D. Kaspin
The Garden in the Machine: A Field Guide to Independent Films about Place by Scott MacDonald
Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation by Helen M. Cooper, Adrienne Auslander Munich and Susan Merril Squier
Pastoral and Ideology: Virgil to Valéry by Annabel Patterson
Conflicting Readings: Variety and Validity in Interpretation by Paul B. Armstrong
The Voice in the Margin: Native American Literature and the Canon by Arnold Krupat
The Pound Era by Hugh Kenner