In this book, Ron Eyerman explores the formation of the African-American identity through the theory of cultural trauma. The trauma in question is slavery, not as an institution or as personal experience, but as collective memory: a pervasive remembrance that grounded a people's sense of itself. Combining a broad narrative sweep with more detailed studies of important events and individuals, Eyerman reaches from Emancipation through the Harlem Renaissance, the Depression, the New Deal and the Second World War to the Civil Rights movement and beyond. He offers insights into the intellectual and generational conflicts of identity-formation which have a truly universal significance, as well as providing a compelling account of the birth of African-American identity. Anyone interested in questions of assimilation, multiculturalism and postcolonialism will find this book indispensable.

Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity

Creating the Corporate Soul: The Rise of Public Relations and Corporate Imagery in American Big Business

The Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry

Preface Introduction: Classicism, Democracy, and the Rule of Law Part I: The Classical Corporation and State Policy I. Classical Political Economy and the Business Corporation 2. Vested Corporate Rights 3. Politics and Public Goods 4. The Corporate Personality 5. Limited Liability 6. Corporate Power and Its Abuse Part Ii: The Economic Constitution 7. A Moral Theory of Political Economy 8. The Classical Theory of Federalism 9. An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution Part Iii: The Rise of Regulated Industry 10. Market Failure and Constitutional Classicism: The Slaughter-House Cases 11. Regulation and Incorporation 12. The Railroads and the Development of Regulatory Policy 13. Federalism and Rate Discrimination Part Iv: The Political Economy of Substantive Due Process 14. Historical Explanation and Substantive Due Process 15. The American School of Political Economy 16. The Wages Fund 17. Market Failure and the Constitution Part V: The Labor Combination In American Law 18. Classical Theory and the Labor Cartel 19. Coercion and Its Meaning: Antitrust and the Labor Injunction Part Vi: The Antitrust Movement and the Theory of the Firm 20. American Merger Policy and the Failure of Corporate Law 21. The Classical Theory of Competition 22. The Rise of Industrial Organization 23. The Fixed-Cost Controversy 24. Potential Competition 25. Vertical Integration and Resale Price Maintenance Epilogue: Classical Enterprise in Decline Notes Index

Book Review - Enterprise and American Law, 1836-1937

In addition to being a small-town doctor who delivered more than 3,000 babies, William Carlos Williams was a deeply serious thinker considered on of the foremost poets of the century. In this remarkable, rich blend of art and scholarship, Paul Mariani unfolds Williams' life and times while simultaneously letting the reader inside the poet's mind and language. Photographs.

William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked

Introduction Theorizing Art and Punctuation: Gertrude Stein's Breathless Poetry Satirizing Frameless Art: Wyndham Lewis's Defense of Representation Breaking Glass to Save the Frame: William Carlos Williams and Company Challenging Kitsch Equality: William Gaddis's and Elizabeth Bishop's " Rear-Garde Art Administering Poetic Breath for the People: Charles Olson and Amiri Baraka Coda: Universal Breath Index

Modernism's Other Work: The Art Object's Political Life

Readers have long assumed that the heroic persona in wellknown Wallace Stevens’s poems such as “The Man with the Blue Guitar” (1937), “Asides on the Oboe” (1940), and “Examination of the Hero in a Time of War” (1942) expresses an ideal version of the poet himself without insurance job distractions. The “impossible possible philosophers’ man” in “Asides” is “The man who has had the time to think enough, / The central man” (lines 13– 14). Even during wartime, this thinker aims for transcendence, something the “metal heroes”—soldiers, perhaps—cannot attain (6). He meditates upon the world and mediates between worlds to create brilliant poetic diamonds. “Central man” is no ethereal deity detached from current events but speaks to Stevens’s oft-noted preoccupation with poetry’s role during global crises such as the Depression. As “the glass man,” he transparently embodies “the place in which / He is” (18–19, 38). Yet by the 1940s, Stevens’s figurations of heroism, whether of a central man or a “major man,” are insistently abstract. “The hero is not a person,” the speaker declares in “Examination” (VIII.1), an idea Charles Altieri expands upon: “Major man is our fiction of our own fullest selfsatisfactions . . . abler in the abstract than in his singular” (150). While fascinated with modernist figurations of heroism, masculinity, and sovereignty during World War II, Stevens insists on the hero’s detachment from worldly sources. Central man could never be General Patton.

Wallace Stevens's Fascist Dilemmas and Free Market Resolutions

"Is This My Mother's Grave?": Genocide and Diaspora in Atom Egoyan's Family Viewing

Reviewing the new, vibrant, and nearly 900-page Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities is no easy task. As seasoned editor-scholars Simon Stern, Maksymilian Del Mar, and Bernadette Meyler acknowledg...

The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities: Ed. Simon Stern, Maksymilian Del Mar, and Bernadette Meyler, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, ISBN 9780190695620, Price £125 & $175, ix-892pp

According to Gertrude Stein, the phenomenological space of the beholder is distinct from the space of the art object. Instead of producing an art that merges content and context—a painting and its beholder's place, a poem and its reader's point of view—Stein makes everything about the beholder or reader irrelevant to her art. She accomplishes this aim in Tender Buttons (1914) by removing punctuation. Although in discussing Wyndham Lewis's novelistic dramatization of two characters intruding into a painting (The Childermass [1928]) I describe exactly the opposite of Stein's theory of art, and although Lewis himself saw his position as completely opposed to Stein, Lewis also advocated an art that imagined the beholder as irrelevant.

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Modernism's Other Work: The Art Object's Political Life

Wallace Stevens's Fascist Dilemmas and Free Market Resolutions

"Is This My Mother's Grave?": Genocide and Diaspora in Atom Egoyan's Family Viewing

The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities: Ed. Simon Stern, Maksymilian Del Mar, and Bernadette Meyler, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, ISBN 9780190695620, Price £125 & $175, ix-892pp

Out of Air: Theorizing the Art Object in Gertrude Stein and Wyndham Lewis