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“Seeing in the Dark”: The Aesthetics of Disappearance and Remembrance in the Work of Alberto Rey
STEPHANIE LEWTHWAITE
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25 May 2016, pp. 591-621
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This article examines how contemporary Cuban American artists have experimented with visual languages of trauma to construct an intergenerational memory about the losses of exile and migration. It considers the work of artist Alberto Rey, and his layering of individual loss onto other, traumatic episodes in the history of the Cuban diaspora. In the series Las Balsas (The Rafts, 1995–99), Rey explores the impact of the balsero (rafter) crisis of 1994 by transforming objects left behind by Cuban rafters on their sometimes ill-fated journeys to the United States into commemorative relics. By playing on a memory of absence and the misplacement of objects found along the migration route of the Florida Straits, Rey's visual language transmits the memory of grief across time, space and generational divides. Rey's visual strategies are part of an “extended memory” tied to the aesthetics of disappearance and remembrance in contemporary Cuban American art. His use of objects as powerful memory texts that serve to bring fragmented autobiographical, family and intergenerational testimonies of loss together suggests how visual artists can provide us with more collective, participatory and redemptive models of memory work.

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12 July 2017, pp. 996-1000
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Charles Molesworth , The Capitalist and the Critic: J. P. Morgan, Roger Fry, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016, $29.95). Pp. 244. isbn 978 1 4773 0840 0.
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10 October 2017, pp. 1280-1281
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“Fictional Others”: Analyzing Hollywood's Relationship with Evangelical Christianity
MEGAN HUNT
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24 January 2017, pp. 241-248
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Transnationalizing US Religious History and Revisiting the European Case
UTA BALBIER
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24 January 2017, pp. 249-254
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Lesley Lee Francis , You Come Too: My Journey with Robert Frost (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015, $34.95 cloth, $34.95 ebook). Pp. 288. isbn 978 0 8139 3745 8, 978 0 8139 3746 5. - Jonathan N. Barron , How Robert Frost Made Realism Matter (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2015, $60.00 cloth, $60.00 ebook). Pp. 288. isbn 978 0 8262 2057 8, 978 0 8262 7351 2.
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10 October 2017, pp. 1281-1285
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Roundtable - Andrew Hartman , A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015, $30.00). Pp. 384. isbn 978 0 2262 5450 0.
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08 May 2017, pp. 623-632
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Barbara McCaskill , Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery: William and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 2015, $22.95). Pp. 132. isbn 978 0 8203 4724 0.
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12 July 2017, pp. 1000-1002
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Paul B. Ringel , Commercializing Childhood: Children's Magazines, Urban Gentility, and the Ideal of the Child Consumer in the United States, 1823–1918 (Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015, $28.95). Pp. 275. isbn 978 1 6253 4191 4.
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12 July 2017, pp. 1002-1003
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Roundtable - Mark Greif , The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933–1973 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014, £19.95). Pp. 434. isbn 978 0 6911 4639 3.
ADAM KELLY, WILL NORMAN, RICHARD H. KING, ROBERT GENTER, DANIEL HOROWITZ
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24 January 2017, pp. 255-266
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David R. Jarraway , Wallace Stevens among Others: Diva-Dames, Deleuze, and American Culture (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015, £43.00). Pp. xiii + 307. isbn 978 0 7735 4602 8.
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10 October 2017, pp. 1285-1286
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David Brundage , Irish Nationalists in America: The Politics of Exile, 1798–1998 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016, £22.99). Pp. 220. isbn 978 0 1953 3177 6.
GILLIAN O'BRIEN
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08 May 2017, pp. 633-634
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David M. Krueger , Myths of the Rune Stone: Viking Martyrs and the Birthplace of America (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2015, $24.95). Pp. ix + 213. isbn 978 0 8166 9696 3.
NATALIE ZACEK
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24 January 2017, pp. 267-268
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Michael McDonnell , Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2015, $35.00). Pp. 416. isbn 978 0 8090 2953 2.
SIMON MIDDLETON
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12 July 2017, pp. 1003-1006
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Celeste-Marie Bernier , Suffering and Sunset: World War I in the Art and Life of Horace Pippin (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015, $39.95). Pp. 517. isbn 978 1439 9127 37.
MARK WHALAN
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10 October 2017, pp. 1286-1288
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Rankin Sherling , The Invisible Irish: Finding Protestants in the Nineteenth-Century Migrations to America (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016, CA$110.00). Pp. xvi + 350. isbn 978 0 7735 4622 6.
DAVID FITZPATRICK
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08 May 2017, pp. 634-635
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Thomas A. Foster (ed.), Women in Early America (New York: New York University Press, 2015, $28.00). Pp. 320. isbn 978 1 4798 9047 7.
SARA T. DAMIANO
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12 July 2017, pp. 1006-1007
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Cian McMahon , The Global Dimensions of Irish Identity: Race, Nation, and the Popular Press, 1840–1880 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015, $34.95). Pp. 238. isbn 978 1 4696 2010 7.
BRIAN SHOTT
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08 May 2017, pp. 636-637
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Jenny Woodley , Art for Equality: The NAACP's Cultural Campaign for Civil Rights (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2014, $40.00). Pp. 258. isbn 978 0 8131 4516 7.
RACHEL FAREBROTHER
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10 October 2017, pp. 1288-1290
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Andy Doolen , Territories of Empire: US Writing from the Louisiana Purchase to Mexican Independence (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014, $53.00). Pp. 288. isbn 978 0 1993 4862 6.
JANET FLOYD
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24 January 2017, pp. 268-269
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Charles Molesworth , The Capitalist and the Critic: J. P. Morgan, Roger Fry, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016, $29.95). Pp. 244. isbn 978 1 4773 0840 0.

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Roundtable - Andrew Hartman , A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015, $30.00). Pp. 384. isbn 978 0 2262 5450 0.

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Barbara McCaskill , Love, Liberation, and Escaping Slavery: William and Ellen Craft in Cultural Memory (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 2015, $22.95). Pp. 132. isbn 978 0 8203 4724 0.

Paul B. Ringel , Commercializing Childhood: Children's Magazines, Urban Gentility, and the Ideal of the Child Consumer in the United States, 1823–1918 (Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015, $28.95). Pp. 275. isbn 978 1 6253 4191 4.

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Roundtable - Mark Greif , The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933–1973 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014, £19.95). Pp. 434. isbn 978 0 6911 4639 3.

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David R. Jarraway , Wallace Stevens among Others: Diva-Dames, Deleuze, and American Culture (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015, £43.00). Pp. xiii + 307. isbn 978 0 7735 4602 8.

David Brundage , Irish Nationalists in America: The Politics of Exile, 1798–1998 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016, £22.99). Pp. 220. isbn 978 0 1953 3177 6.

David M. Krueger , Myths of the Rune Stone: Viking Martyrs and the Birthplace of America (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2015, $24.95). Pp. ix + 213. isbn 978 0 8166 9696 3.

Michael McDonnell , Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America (New York: Hill and Wang, 2015, $35.00). Pp. 416. isbn 978 0 8090 2953 2.

Celeste-Marie Bernier , Suffering and Sunset: World War I in the Art and Life of Horace Pippin (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015, $39.95). Pp. 517. isbn 978 1439 9127 37.

Rankin Sherling , The Invisible Irish: Finding Protestants in the Nineteenth-Century Migrations to America (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016, CA$110.00). Pp. xvi + 350. isbn 978 0 7735 4622 6.

Thomas A. Foster (ed.), Women in Early America (New York: New York University Press, 2015, $28.00). Pp. 320. isbn 978 1 4798 9047 7.

Cian McMahon , The Global Dimensions of Irish Identity: Race, Nation, and the Popular Press, 1840–1880 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015, $34.95). Pp. 238. isbn 978 1 4696 2010 7.

Jenny Woodley , Art for Equality: The NAACP's Cultural Campaign for Civil Rights (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2014, $40.00). Pp. 258. isbn 978 0 8131 4516 7.

Andy Doolen , Territories of Empire: US Writing from the Louisiana Purchase to Mexican Independence (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014, $53.00). Pp. 288. isbn 978 0 1993 4862 6.

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