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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 638–640.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., Minstrelsy, and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s . By Sarah Meer. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2005. viii, 332 pp. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $24.95. Confluences: Postcolonialism, African American Literary Studies, and the Black Atlantic . By John Cullen Gruesser. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 848–850.
Published: 01 December 2015
...-book, $23.99.
Latining America: Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies. By
Claudia Milian. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. x, 301 pp. Cloth, $69.95; paper,
$24.95; e-book, $24.95.
The 1970s saw the emergence of Chicana/o studies and Puerto Rican studies
programs, centers...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 663–664.
Published: 01 September 2001
... recreates this reading audience
by studying the ads published in the various pulps, especially Black Mask,
as well as other relevant documents—letters, diaries, and publishing records.
Having ‘‘discovered’’ this readership, Smith goes on to trace what they found
in the hardboiled pulps to sustain...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 898–900.
Published: 01 December 2017
... Press . 2015 . xi, 208 pp. Cloth , $59.50 ; paper, $24.50 ; e-book, $24.50 . Dreams for Dead Bodies: Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction . By Robinson M. Michelle . Ann Arbor : Univ. of Michigan Press . 2016 . 256 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; e-book available...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 587–617.
Published: 01 September 2019
... and political experiments illuminates the importance of time to the emerging field of black geographies and to the field of black studies more broadly. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 black geographies performance US South afterlives of slavery In this essay, I examine...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 651–676.
Published: 01 December 2022
... takeover of American publishers and the rise of Black studies programs, this article reconstructs a lost moment in both cultural history and business history. Starting with the story of The Black Book , a “scrapbook-history” of African American experience edited by Morrison and published by Random House...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 563–587.
Published: 01 September 2012
... by the US State Department to perform in Africa in the 1950s. In doing so, it draws from recent research in jazz studies by Penny Von Eschen and Ingrid Monson to underscore the historical complexity and political incisiveness of Hughes’s enactment of a black transnationalist public in the poem. © 2012...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (2): 245–272.
Published: 01 June 2022
... at L’Union (a bilingual, Black Creole weekly in New Orleans). These examples reveal the practical language of editorship expressed through serial formats. By reading editing on its own terms, in the patterns of established formats and formal innovations, it becomes possible to envision the broader study...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 381–406.
Published: 01 June 2008
... as the result of 1965 immigration policy and a reaction to the intensification of black civil rights and protest movements, the concluding sections of the essay suggest that Bulosan provides a glimpse of the emergence of a model minority discourse as it takes shape in the shadow of black pathologization...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 495–522.
Published: 01 September 2018
... queer theory. I do this to emphasize an important but still-developing ethic in contemporary queer literary studies: the need to center the study of queer representation and politics on more than homosexuality and especially on blackness. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 LGBTQ...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 653–680.
Published: 01 December 2020
...) argues in the introduction to Black Metropolis that “since art and honest science were not far apart . . . each could enrich the other.” 3 I credit Elleza Kelley and the African American Studies colloquium at Columbia University for helping me clarify this key point. 4 The greater scope...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 689–717.
Published: 01 December 2011
... of bringing certain novelis-
tic conventions to bear on biographies of black and Native American
women. Rightly, Americanist scholars should seek to know how multi-
ethnic literatures stand to be advanced or transformed by studies of
the Eldridge biographies.
Paradoxically, an answer to scholars...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 281–307.
Published: 01 June 2020
...; the scholarly monographs in UNC Press’s Social Study Series; and DuBose Heyward’s popular “Negro novel” Porgy (1925). Across this interdisciplinary tradition, writers of various stripes seek by turns to celebrate and contain the threat of the free but noncapitalist black body. The latter figure, recalling...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 59–85.
Published: 01 March 2021
... book, and Dunbar was praised for seeing to it that “the Negro plays so small a part” in its narrative (165). This seeming unconcern with Black experience became grounds for the novel’s critical dismissal seven decades later, around the same time African American studies was being constituted as a field...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 671–690.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Eve Eure Abstract This article extends Tiya Miles’s study on the Black Cherokee Shoe Boots family by reading the legal documents they submitted to the Cherokee Nation—citizenship applications and land deeds as intergenerational testimonials. These documents, the article argues, constitute...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 497–523.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Michelle N. Huang Abstract Illuminating how biomedical capital invests in white and Asian American populations while divesting from Black surplus populations, this article proposes recent Asian American dystopian fiction provides a case study for analyzing futurities where healthcare...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 65–92.
Published: 01 March 2009
... acts, negotiated legal and literary conventions in their pursuit of legal subjectivity. Comparing a legal case and a literary text extends scholarship on literary treatments of antebellum crime to determine how both women challenged early American legal and cultural understandings of black criminality...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 797–826.
Published: 01 December 2012
... of Elizabeth Thompson. After two weeks
in jail, Williams was discharged, but he faced slander and criticism in
the black press, particularly from Peter Sanderson’s Pacific Appeal
(Eric Gardner, “Williams, James,” African American National Biogra
phy, Oxford African American Studies...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 597–626.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of her contemporaries, and ours, is uncharted territory: confronting racial injustice not as a black body in pain, or in a despised white Other, but as a system of white power embodied in the self. The extent to which childhood racial innocence is allowed to be ruined in each novel, and the manner...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 115–143.
Published: 01 March 2021
... premised on acts of tangible care rather than affective identification or the possession of interiority. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Black studies sentimentality fugitivity Colson Whitehead historical fiction Affect-laden approaches to history are often touted...
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