STUDIES IN AMERICAN

CULTURE

1997

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1

African-American Actors and the Communism Scare of the 1950s: Unique Responses to the Otherness Inflicted by the Hegemonic Discourse  Charlene Regester

17

Vonnegut's Player Piano and American Anti-Leisure:  Idle Time in Hell  Wesley Burnett and Lucy Rollin

 

Harvest in the South  Angela Minter

29

Melissa Scully Died for Your Sins:  Feminine Sacrifice and Native American Spirituality in The X-Files J. P. Williams

41

Hemingway and the Gulf Stream:  The Esquire Letters as Informal Apologia  John J. Fenstermaker

59

"To Educate Neither Belles Nor Bluestockings:"  Women and Higher Education in the South During the Progressive Era  Christina R. McDonald

71

Fictionalizing as Moral Rationalization:  The Function of the Narrator in Hawthorne's "Wakefield"  Ed Piacentino

85

The Politics of Pain:  Family Letters and Oral Histories from the Vietnam War   Renate W. Prescott