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American Literary Scholarship (2009) 2007 (1): 281–299.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Nicolas S. Witschi Duke University Press 2009 13 Late-19th-Century Literature
Nicolas S. Witschi
Poetry and prose by African American artists take center stage amid this
year’s scholarship. A special issue devoted to the works of Paul Laurence
Dunbar provides a welcome...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2012) 2010 (1): 249–272.
Published: 01 September 2012
... the humorists of the Old South played
a prominent role in helping the nation develop its own unique literary
voice.
i Period Studies
Robert Nowatzki’s Representing African Americans in Transatlantic Abo-
litionism and Blackface Minstrelsy (LSU) examines the overlap of the
Jim Crow and Uncle Tom...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2017) 2015 (1): 219–234.
Published: 01 September 2017
... on Ambrose Bierce, and these studies also explore his manifold
aesthetics. Investigations that analyze racial representations and racial
issues continue strong, with late-19th-century scholars researching works
by African American writers such as Ida Wells, Pauline Hopkins, George
Boyer Vashon...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2008) 2006 (1): 273–309.
Published: 01 September 2008
... discusses Richard Wright’s debt to Theodore
Dreiser in Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism: From
Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku (Ohio State). Although Wright did
not consider himself a naturalist, the spectacle of women’s suffering
in Jennie Gerhardt and Sister Carrie drew...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2002) 2000 (1): 435–449.
Published: 01 September 2002
...
Scholes in The Rise and Fall of English (1998).
In ‘‘The End(s) of African-American Studies’’ (AmLH 12: 637–55)
Kenneth W. Warren engages a similar question but with a narrower
focus: what is the relation between the formal study of African American
culture and the politico-cultural entity...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2014) 2012 (1): 243–264.
Published: 01 September 2014
... of imperialism, the representation of African Americans and
Native Americans, and the impact of popular culture on the so-called
literary defines this engaging book.
In addition to Paulin’s in-depth analysis, works by other scholars also
have plenty to offer in the interpretation of Pauline Hopkins’s...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2021) 2019 (1): 223–238.
Published: 01 September 2021
... they predominately explore race and gender, searching the past for an understanding of the present. African American writers such as Pauline Hopkins, Frances E. W. Harper, Charles W. Chesnutt, and Paul Laurence Dunbar attract more critical attention than W. D. Howells, Frank Norris, and Stephen Crane; and Hopkins s...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2006) 2004 (1): 533–547.
Published: 01 September 2006
...David J. Nordloh Duke University Press 2006 22 General Reference Works
David J. Nordloh
African American literature, women writers, and American drama,
areas of particular emphasis in reference publication in the recent past,
retain their prominence this year, and the usual...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2010) 2008 (1): 213–231.
Published: 01 September 2010
... developed
views about Africans’ essential difference from Europeans. This chapter’s
focus on black Atlantic writing illustrates a key point in the develop-
ment of racial categorization that would become dominant, the book
argues, only in the 19th century. Instead of insisting on the importance...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2016) 2014 (1): ix–xvii.
Published: 01 September 2016
... the Subject: Failure and the American Writer /
Writing Women Across the African Gavin Jones, Failure and the
Diaspora (Ohio State) American Writer: A Literary
Class and the Making of American History (Cambridge)
Literature / Andrew Lawson, ed., Fashioning the Nineteenth Century...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2013) 2011 (1): 239–262.
Published: 01 September 2013
.... A fine collection of essays and a new edition of The Bravo stand
as important contributions to Cooper scholarship. African American
writers feature prominently in this year’s scholarly efforts. One study
investigates Native American language and one “Indian performance,”
whereas a few articles...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2008) 2006 (1): 539–552.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of 19th-century American
literature are several other historical works. Because it is also part of the
series Milestones in African American History, the two-volume Encyclo-
pedia of the Reconstruction Era, ed. Richard Zuczek (Greenwood), is not
quite so comprehensive in its coverage as the title...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2015) 2013 (1): 263–284.
Published: 01 September 2015
... Funerals in Zora Neale
Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God” ( pp. 3–17), which looks at
how African American traditions play a part in the presentation of the
three funerals depicted in the novel. Robert C. Evans’s “Mrs. Turpin
and Mrs. Turner: Foolish Pride in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Revelation...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2011) 2009 (1): 263–279.
Published: 01 September 2011
... strong rate, as do analyses of the fiction of Stephen Crane and
W. D. Howells. A pair of innovative studies in African American history
and culture promises to redefine the field significantly, while the liter-
ary study of the Civil War also points in new directions, particularly in
discussions...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2015) 2013 (1): 215–238.
Published: 01 September 2015
... in slavery and genocide, and his use of China in his tales. An
important book places the travel writings of John Lloyd Stephens in the
context of American nationalism and Manifest Destiny. Once again,
African American writers appear prominently in this year’s scholarly
efforts. One study investigates...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2008) 2006 (1): 251–272.
Published: 01 September 2008
.... The breadth and complexity of
African American literature is also highly visible, both in its relation to
the period’s more dominant ideologies, usually represented by W. D.
Howells, and on its own terms. Of course, the impact of Howells as both
an artist and a critic also continues to attract...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2001) 1999 (1): 361–388.
Published: 01 September 2001
... another that dis-
cusses the artistic impact of the political Left on Brown, Langston
Hughes, and other African American poets. A book about the intertex-
tuality of H.D. and Sapphic Hellenism adds to a growing discussion.
Another study of modernism’s ‘‘queer poetics’’ in five women...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2020) 2018 (1): 197–214.
Published: 01 September 2020
... with a social purpose is studied more than art for art s sake, the works that explore or expose cultural issues are diverse, and many recent studies are based on sound archival research. Again, nowhere is this trend more obvious than in the field of African American literature and in the examination of young...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2001) 1999 (1): 337–360.
Published: 01 September 2001
..., African American, and Jewish American identities have
helped form a new American mainstream. The narratives of each author
seek inclusion, but maintain a healthy sense of anger with exclusionary
forces. The protagonists in their works succeed as survivors, but not in
the terms of typical...
Journal Article
American Literary Scholarship (2004) 2002 (1): 425–441.
Published: 01 September 2004
... Pelaud’s ‘‘Metisse Blanche: Kim
Lefevre and Transnational Space’’ (pp. 122–36), and Hertha D. Sweet
Wong’s ‘‘Taking Place: African-Native American Subjectivity in A Yellow
Raft in Blue Water ’’ (pp. 165–76). Each of these essays manages to subvert
traditional binaries, complicating them by raising...
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