Imagining Each Other: Blacks and Jews in Contemporary American Literature (review)
her endorsement of "the democratic promise of the United States for Haiti" and her idealistic "confidence that a society with its own distinct cultural heritage can resist colonization." At its best, then, this is one of several recent studies of ideology and American literary culture that, in Joel Pfister's admirable phrase, get beyond "complicity critiques." Moreover, Rowe goes a long way in this book toward achieving his goal of constructing "a workable curriculum" for teaching about imperialism and its resistance in American Studies and literature courses.