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Volume 89, Issue 1

1 March 2017

ISSN 0002-9831

EISSN 1527-2117

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Inventing Queer: Portals, Hauntings, and Other Fantastic Tricks in the Collected Folklore of Joel Chandler Harris and Charles Chesnutt

Don James McLaughlin

Abstract

Writing the Old Negro in a New Century: James Weldon Johnson and the Uses of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Adena Spingarn

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Rescued Children and Unfit Mothers: Dreiser’s Social Work in the Delineator’s Child-Rescue Campaign

Emily Hainze

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Marketing the Southwest: Modernism, the Fred Harvey Company, and the Indian Detour

Elizabeth Lloyd Oliphant

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“I’m Very Happy to Be in the Reality-Based Community”: Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, Digital Photography, and George W. Bush

Robin Bernstein

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Metadata, Metafiction, and the Stakes of Surveillance in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad

Katherine D. Johnston

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The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past
Black Atlas: Geography and Flow in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature

Mary Caton Lingold

Extract

East Meets Black: Asian and Black Masculinities in the Post–Civil Rights Era
Racial Reconstruction: Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship

Stephanie Li

Extract

The Impossible Jew: Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History
Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture

Joshua Logan Wall

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Between Two Fires: Transnationalism and Cold War Poetry
After the American Century: The Ends of U.S. Culture in the Middle East

Paul Giles

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Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form
The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics
Darger’s Resources

Jennifer Glaser

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