Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner's Go Down, Moses (review)
Clymer is strongest when providing such close readings of cultural contexts that testify to terrorism's role in shaping American institutions. The chapter on James, the only world-class novelist included, is less satisfying, perhaps because its London setting and the novelist's notorious indirections make connecting The Princess Casamassima to labor agitation and violence in the United States problematic. Finally, although the author does not insist on contemporary parallels, our current President's admonitions to combat terrorism by shopping suggest that the identification of national survival with corporate welfare still seems self-evident to many Americans.