| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Book Review

Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History. Ed. by Ann Laura Stoler. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xx, 544 pp. Cloth, $99.95, ISBN 0-8223-3737-1. Paper, $26.95, ISBN 0-8223-3724-X.)

It is a bit disconcerting to realize that, methodologically speaking, most of the excellent and widely ranging essays in Haunted by Empire could have appeared in such 1990s collections as Nationalisms and Sexualities (ed. Andrew Parker et al., 1992), Cultures of United States Imperialism (ed. Amy Kaplan and Donald E. Pease, 1993), the 1998 "No More Separate Spheres!" special issue of American Literature (ed. Cathy N. Davidson), and even Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts (ed. Anne Goodwyn Jones and Susan V. Donaldson, 1997). Are postcolonial theorists and literary critics, who have been using Michel Foucault since before most of our present-day undergraduates were born, really that far in front of historians? More disturbingly, has American studies stalled out, with the best boomers in the business still writing elaborate footnotes to Amy Kaplan?

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