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The New Middle Kingdom: China and the Early American Romance of Free TradeEast-West Exchange and Late Modernism: Williams, Moore, PoundConsuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America

The New Middle Kingdom: China and the Early American Romance of Free TradeEast-West Exchange and... Book Reviews 387 betweenhuman andnonhumananimals.AsHerman notes, the fictional and nonfictional narratives that he engages tend to be post-Darwinian, but the book incorporates a vast array of genres, periods, and mediums that enable different affordances in relationship to imagining animal experience. Moreover, in its coda, the book discusses the idea that Quentin Meillassoux describes as ancestrality, or forms of knowledge of the real that exceed human perception. The chapter persuasively rethinks allegory to model such accounts. As this description begins to indicate, the book is an exceedingly rich one. I expect it to take its place among books like Fredric Jameson’s The Political Unconscious (1981) and Hayden White’s The Content of the Form (1987) as a narratological touchstone for generations to come. Christopher Breu is professor of English at Illinois State University. He is author of Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Era of Biopolitics (2014) and Hard-Boiled Masculinities (2005). He is coeditor of Noir Affect (2020) and editor of the recent spe- cial issue of Symploke titled “Materialisms.” DOI 10.1215/00029831-8267852 The New Middle Kingdom: China and the Early American Romance of Free Trade. By Kendall A. Johnson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2017. x, 371 pp. Cloth, $64.95; http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Literature Duke University Press

The New Middle Kingdom: China and the Early American Romance of Free TradeEast-West Exchange and Late Modernism: Williams, Moore, PoundConsuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America

American Literature , Volume 92 (2) – Jun 1, 2020

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Book Reviews 387 betweenhuman andnonhumananimals.AsHerman notes, the fictional and nonfictional narratives that he engages tend to be post-Darwinian, but the book incorporates a vast array of genres, periods, and mediums that enable different affordances in relationship to imagining animal experience. Moreover, in its coda, the book discusses the idea that Quentin Meillassoux describes as ancestrality, or forms of knowledge of the real that exceed human perception. The chapter persuasively rethinks allegory to model such accounts. As this description begins to indicate, the book is an exceedingly rich one. I expect it to take its place among books like Fredric Jameson’s The Political Unconscious (1981) and Hayden White’s The Content of the Form (1987) as a narratological touchstone for generations to come. Christopher Breu is professor of English at Illinois State University. He is author of Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Era of Biopolitics (2014) and Hard-Boiled Masculinities (2005). He is coeditor of Noir Affect (2020) and editor of the recent spe- cial issue of Symploke titled “Materialisms.” DOI 10.1215/00029831-8267852 The New Middle Kingdom: China and the Early American Romance of Free Trade. By Kendall A. Johnson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2017. x, 371 pp. Cloth, $64.95;

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