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Matthew Smalley, Resistance and the Sermon in American Literature: The Cultural Work of Literary Preaching from Emerson to Morrison, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024, 216 p.

This section highlights the major transformations currently reshaping research subjects in North-American Studies. The poststructuralist and postcolonial revolutions have expanded corpora and legitimized previously neglected sources, especially those produced by historically marginalized groups. Thi...

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