American, British and Canadian Studies

Volume 33

Contents

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Editorial

“Thank you for your country”

PETER BARRY

Much Ado about Black Naturalism: Don John, Blood, and Caged Birds

CRYSTAL HARRIS 4

Quixotism, Federalism, and the Question of American National
Identity in Royall Tyler’s The Algerine Captive

DRAGOŞ IVANA 29

Kitchen and Other Tables to Think With:
The Case of To the Lighthouse, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife
and Her Lover and In the Mood for Love

ESTELLA ANTOANETA CIOBANU 47

Ellen Glasgow’s In This Our Life:
“The Betrayals of Life” in the Crumbling Aristocratic South

IULIA ANDREEA MILICĂ 69

Suspect Survival:
Matrophobia in Postmemory Generational Writing

ELIZABETH KELLA 89

The Uses of Formulaic Language in Graham Swift’s
England and Other Stories

BOŻENA KUCAŁA 118

Forgetting to Re-member: Politics of Amnesia and the
Reconstruction of Memory in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless
Mind, Everything Is Illuminated and Memento

MURAT GOC 135

Icebound Modernity. The Shipwreck as Metaphor in
Dan Simmons’ The Terror

ADAM LOVASZ 151

Political Theatre in the Age of Brexit: The State of Nation
in Monologues

BANU ÖĞÜNÇ 171

“In the desert, we are all illegal aliens”: Border Confluences
and Border Wars in Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Devil’s Highway

RALUCA ANDREESCU 189

How the Booker Prize Won the Prize

MERRITT MOSELEY 206

Reviews

Paul Lopes. Art Rebels: Race, Class and Gender in the Art of
Miles Davis and Martin Scorsese

ADRIANA-CECILIA NEAGU 222

Issa Kohler-Hausmann. Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts
and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing

GABRIEL C. GHERASIM 225

Late Pynchon Theorized: A Review of Diana Benea,
The Political Imagination of Thomas Pynchon’s Later Novels
and Sean Carswell, Occupy Pynchon: Politics After
Gravity’s Rainbow

ALI CHETWYND 233

Notes on Contributors

Call for Papers

Call for Membership