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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 733–761.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Douglas S. Ishii Abstract “The Diversity Requirement” takes on anti-neoliberal criticisms of the post-2008 US university as emblematized by quit lit , the essay genre in which tenure-track hopefuls announce that they are leaving academia, as deracinated yet totalizing theories that ignore how...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 619–647.
Published: 01 September 2019
... that they are gathering at this modern-day plantation to escape an oppressive stench just beyond the farm’s borders gestures to the inescapable presence of the necropolitical state, which continues to subject them to toxic conditions. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 social death (anti)racism...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 61–87.
Published: 01 March 2012
... This comment
speaks to Chesnutt’s conviction that anti–African American violence
has more to do with progressive and impersonal US industry than
with regressive and barbaric Southern or US white culture. Chesnutt
views lynching as modern and utilitarian, not atavistic and incendiary,
racism...
Journal Article
American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 751–781.
Published: 01 December 2003
...Maurice S. Lee Duke University Press 2003 Maurice S. Absolute Poe: His System of
Lee Transcendental Racism
6986 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:4 / sheet 63 of 255 A haunting image appears on the cover of the 1995...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 769–797.
Published: 01 December 2008
...
the genealogy of global capitalism. Rather than a black witness for
America, DuBois’s autobiographical black witness calls for an anti-
racism responsive to the history of racial capitalism around which a
constituency for global socialism might coalesce.
We can also find race radical...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 672–674.
Published: 01 September 2019
... and limiting engagement with racism to the narrowly mimetic. Against such segregation, suggests Nel, we need diverse genres as well as diverse books and authors (and publishers and editors). Nel concludes the volume with a nineteen-point “Manifesto for Anti-Racist Children’s Literature,” recommending...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 445–472.
Published: 01 September 2021
... racism. Willie Jamaal Wright’s ( 2021 : 793) description of “[r]acial landscapes produced by anti-Black violence” (804) is relevant here, as is his call for “a reconceptualisation of environmental racism that takes into account the mergence of anti-Black violence and ecologies,” which is to say...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 137–157.
Published: 01 March 2015
...: Neoliberalism and Anti-
racism.” American Literary History 18, no. 2: 288–302.
Morrison, Toni. 1987. Beloved. New York: Knopf.
Nora, Pierre. 1989. “Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Memoire.”
Representations 26: 7–24.
Pierpont, Claudia Roth. 2013. Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books. New...
Journal Article
American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 159–179.
Published: 01 March 2022
...-Black racism and Indigenous genocide he uncovers in the world around him, and morally dedicated to thwarting the law to rescue those unfairly persecuted by such a system. Arthur is distinguished by his color-blindness, even among others in the gang. Anti-Black racism is a consistent if not overt...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 821–845.
Published: 01 December 2006
... that reach across national boundaries to shape pro- and anti-
slavery literature. Further, such an approach elucidates how an alter-
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native, if short-lived, nation like the Confederacy displaced onto out-
lying geographic regions such as Cuba its own unique position within...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 838–840.
Published: 01 December 2015
... Reviews 839
cerns with racism and sexism emerged out of the Old Left’s focus on class,
McDonald convincingly documents the ways that black and white women
used antifascist and anticapitalist discourse to critique women’s roles on the
job and in the home. The three main chapters consider one...
Journal Article
American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 497–523.
Published: 01 September 2021
... ’s collectively voiced “we” narrator peaceably acknowledges there is racism—specifically manifested in anti-Blackness and unequal distribution of resources—but no framework for identifying or adjudicating it. We won’t say it or admit that we know, but we can all appreciate how people with some...
Journal Article
American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 429–461.
Published: 01 September 2014
... Cereno’ and Gothic Anti-Sentimentality .” Studies in American Fiction 30 , no. 2 : 155 – 80 . Dowd Gregory Evans . 1992 . A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815 . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press . England Eugene . 1985...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 398–400.
Published: 01 June 2015
... of the
export of American democracy abroad and the imposition of racism and
anti-Communism “at home,” each embodied in writing subaltern ways of
knowing and global subaltern solidarities. These are the epistemologies
from below that are employed by those whom James refers to as “mariners,
renegades...
Journal Article
American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 601–603.
Published: 01 September 2020
... ability to synthesize “anticapitalist and racial justice organizing” while avoiding the class-over-race approach of international communism and the racial essentialism of pan-Africanism (23). Tracing the itineraries that brought “interwar black Atlantic anti-imperialisms” and cultural movements like...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 817–820.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and the sublime. Instead, Howard riffs on the modernist “anti-aesthetic” (23, 133n25), which, in its contemporary iteration, “stays ugly rather than emerges as a transgressive version of beauty” (3). The clearest expression of anti-aesthetic experience comes at the end of a chapter on agalmatophilia, or mannequin...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 177–179.
Published: 01 March 2004
... me that Faulkner racheted his treatment
of race into new gears in these works, which justifies their reexamination.
Her approach also helps mediate between ideological critics who gloss over
Faulkner’s complexity by reductively pointing out racism or sexism in his
work and old school apologists...
Journal Article
American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 179–182.
Published: 01 March 2004
... me that Faulkner racheted his treatment
of race into new gears in these works, which justifies their reexamination.
Her approach also helps mediate between ideological critics who gloss over
Faulkner’s complexity by reductively pointing out racism or sexism in his
work and old school apologists...
Journal Article
American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 182–185.
Published: 01 March 2004
... justifies their reexamination.
Her approach also helps mediate between ideological critics who gloss over
Faulkner’s complexity by reductively pointing out racism or sexism in his
work and old school apologists who try to extricate Faulkner from his deplor-
able personal pronouncements about race...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 185–187.
Published: 01 March 2004
... me that Faulkner racheted his treatment
of race into new gears in these works, which justifies their reexamination.
Her approach also helps mediate between ideological critics who gloss over
Faulkner’s complexity by reductively pointing out racism or sexism in his
work and old school apologists...
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