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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 791–820.
Published: 01 December 2017
.... But the jazz master of silence for Baraka was neither Rollins nor Coltrane nor Taylor. It was Miles Davis, the man with the Harmon mute. 5 In the eulogy Baraka writes for Davis he lists himself as one of the iconic musician’s many children, confessing that the trumpet player influenced every aspect...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 799–823.
Published: 01 December 2015
... miniseries in 1977. Ranging from articles such as “Mr. Muhammad Speaks” in Reader’s Digest in 1960, to his Playboy interviews with Cassius Clay, Miles Davis, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr., Haley’s work would represent African Americans and, especially, the Nation of Islam in mass-market...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 914–921.
Published: 01 December 2019
..., Miles Davis, and Bob Dylan. Addressing Springsteen’s role as both composer and performer, Cologne-Brookes proposes that isolation—or lonesomeness—serves as a catalyst for creative works that may inherently foster a sense of broader community. Reading through the Night . By Jane Tompkins...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 895–908.
Published: 01 December 2001
... brings together over three hundred years of fiction, po- etry, letters, journalism, and travel accounts to define St. Louis as a place. Selections include travel notes by Charles Dickens, excerpts from Miles Davis’s autobiography, and the first chapter of Ntozake Shange’s novel Bet...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 645–647.
Published: 01 September 2006
...-Restraint . By Kirstin Hotelling Zona. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 2002. xi, 187 pp. $55.00. Of Women, Poetry, and Power: Strategies of Address in Dickinson, Miles, Brooks, Lorde, and Angelou . By Zofia Burr. Champaign: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2002. xii, 232 pp. $39.95. Book Reviews...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 655–657.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., and Other Difficult Positions . By Lennard J. Davis. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2002. xii, 200 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $21.00. Book Reviews ‘‘A Hideous Monster of the Mind American Race Theory in the Early Republic.By Bruce Dain. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2002. x, 321 pp. $29.95...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 613–615.
Published: 01 September 2006
... of material culture and historical archaeology, Heneghan’s contribution is to show how literary texts took up this articulation of a materially based whiteness. In her readings of an exten- sive array of major nineteenth-century authors (including Maria Susanna Cummins, Rebecca Harding Davis, Nathaniel...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 615–617.
Published: 01 September 2006
... based whiteness. In her readings of an exten- sive array of major nineteenth-century authors (including Maria Susanna Cummins, Rebecca Harding Davis, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Jacobs, Herman Melville, Edgar Allen Poe, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Susan Warner), Heneghan...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 617–619.
Published: 01 September 2006
... based whiteness. In her readings of an exten- sive array of major nineteenth-century authors (including Maria Susanna Cummins, Rebecca Harding Davis, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Jacobs, Herman Melville, Edgar Allen Poe, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Susan Warner), Heneghan...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 620–622.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., Rebecca Harding Davis, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Jacobs, Herman Melville, Edgar Allen Poe, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Susan Warner), Heneghan demonstrates how these authors both strengthen and contest ideas of whiteness through their imaginative deploy- ment of white things...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 622–624.
Published: 01 September 2006
... authors (including Maria Susanna Cummins, Rebecca Harding Davis, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Jacobs, Herman Melville, Edgar Allen Poe, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Susan Warner), Heneghan demonstrates how these authors both strengthen and contest ideas of whiteness through...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 624–627.
Published: 01 September 2006
... culture and historical archaeology, Heneghan’s contribution is to show how literary texts took up this articulation of a materially based whiteness. In her readings of an exten- sive array of major nineteenth-century authors (including Maria Susanna Cummins, Rebecca Harding Davis, Nathaniel Hawthorne...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 627–629.
Published: 01 September 2006
... authors (including Maria Susanna Cummins, Rebecca Harding Davis, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Jacobs, Herman Melville, Edgar Allen Poe, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Susan Warner), Heneghan demonstrates how these authors both strengthen and contest ideas of whiteness through...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 629–631.
Published: 01 September 2006
... based whiteness. In her readings of an exten- sive array of major nineteenth-century authors (including Maria Susanna Cummins, Rebecca Harding Davis, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Jacobs, Herman Melville, Edgar Allen Poe, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Susan Warner), Heneghan...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 631–633.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., Rebecca Harding Davis, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Jacobs, Herman Melville, Edgar Allen Poe, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Susan Warner), Heneghan demonstrates how these authors both strengthen and contest ideas of whiteness through their imaginative deploy- ment of white things...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 633–635.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., Rebecca Harding Davis, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Jacobs, Herman Melville, Edgar Allen Poe, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Susan Warner), Heneghan demonstrates how these authors both strengthen and contest ideas of whiteness through their imaginative deploy- ment of white things...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 635–637.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., Rebecca Harding Davis, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Jacobs, Herman Melville, Edgar Allen Poe, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Susan Warner), Heneghan demonstrates how these authors both strengthen and contest ideas of whiteness through their imaginative deploy- ment of white things...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 638–640.
Published: 01 September 2006
... of material culture and historical archaeology, Heneghan’s contribution is to show how literary texts took up this articulation of a materially based whiteness. In her readings of an exten- sive array of major nineteenth-century authors (including Maria Susanna Cummins, Rebecca Harding Davis, Nathaniel...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 640–642.
Published: 01 September 2006
... authors (including Maria Susanna Cummins, Rebecca Harding Davis, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Jacobs, Herman Melville, Edgar Allen Poe, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Susan Warner), Heneghan demonstrates how these authors both strengthen and contest ideas of whiteness through...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 643–645.
Published: 01 September 2006
..., Rebecca Harding Davis, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Jacobs, Herman Melville, Edgar Allen Poe, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Susan Warner), Heneghan demonstrates how these authors both strengthen and contest ideas of whiteness through their imaginative deploy- ment of white things...