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“My Childhood Is Ruined!”: Harper Lee and Racial Innocence

Katherine Henninger
American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 597–626.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3650259
Published: 01 September 2016
...Katherine Henninger Abstract This essay uses insights from Southern and childhood studies—particularly Robin Bernstein’s performative theories of racial innocence—to analyze Lee’s newly complicated contributions to understanding US racial histories. I argue that where To Kill a Mockingbird (1960...
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Brief Mention

American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 467–473.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587802
Published: 01 June 2012
.... $56.00. Blackford argues that the multiple literary forms “pressed and challenged” in To Kill a Mockingbird reveal that Lee’s novel should be not only in the canon of high school literature but also on critical syllabi of higher education. Start- ing with Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Man Thinking...
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White Writers, Race Matters: Fictions of Racial Liberalism from Stowe to Stockett Black Prometheus: Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atlantic Slavery

Chris Taylor
American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 528–531.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9361321
Published: 01 September 2021
... obscure, with Fannie Hurst’s Imitation of Life (1933), Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), and Kathryn Stockett’s The Help (2009) sitting alongside Laura Z. Hobson’s Gentleman’s Agreement (1947) and Lillian Smith’s Killers of the Dream (1949). Moving across these texts and their many...
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Brief Mention

American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 885–888.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1437342
Published: 01 December 2011
... social and ideological relationships. The front porch that is central to Brief Mention 887 Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), the radically itinerant home life that Dylan describes in Chronicles: Volume 1 (1994...
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Black and White Women's Travel Narratives: Antebellum Explorations; Trafficking Subjects: The Politics of Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America

John M. Freiermuth
American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 389–391.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-007
Published: 01 June 2006
... graceful interpretive gymnastics, but I found my- self often asking, what about context? One example must suffice, from Aber- nathy’s study of To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s intriguing to watch the author dem- Book Reviews 399 onstrate how Atticus...
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American Racist: The Life and Films of Thomas Dixon; The Sins of the Father: A Romance of the South

Jené Schoenfeld
American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 391–393.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-008
Published: 01 June 2006
... graceful interpretive gymnastics, but I found my- self often asking, what about context? One example must suffice, from Aber- nathy’s study of To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s intriguing to watch the author dem- Book Reviews 399 onstrate how Atticus...
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A Forgetful Nation: On Integration and Cultural Identity in the United States; The Languages of Difference: American Writers and Anthropologists Reconfigure the Primitive, 1878-1940

James Dawes
American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 393–394.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-009
Published: 01 June 2006
... Aber- nathy’s study of To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s intriguing to watch the author dem- Book Reviews 399 onstrate how Atticus Finch winds up representing and upholding white values (through his condescension) and established racial divisions...
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Shooting Cowboys and Indians: Silent Western Films, American Culture, and the Birth of Hollywood; Cowboys as Cold Warriors: The Western and U.S. History

Barton Keeton
American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 395–397.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-010
Published: 01 June 2006
... graceful interpretive gymnastics, but I found my- self often asking, what about context? One example must suffice, from Aber- nathy’s study of To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s intriguing to watch the author dem- Book Reviews 399 onstrate how Atticus...
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Mastery's End: Travel and Postwar American Poetry

Juliana Spahr
American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 397–398.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-011
Published: 01 June 2006
... Aber- nathy’s study of To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s intriguing to watch the author dem- Book Reviews 399 onstrate how Atticus Finch winds up representing and upholding white values (through his condescension) and established racial divisions...
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To Hell and Back: Race and Betrayal in the Southern Novel; Race, Work, and Desire in American Literature, 1860-1930

Leonard Cassuto
American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 398–400.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-012
Published: 01 June 2006
... graceful interpretive gymnastics, but I found my- self often asking, what about context? One example must suffice, from Aber- nathy’s study of To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s intriguing to watch the author dem- Book Reviews 399 onstrate how Atticus...
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Lying Up a Nation: Race and Black Music; Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties

Adam Gussow
American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 400–402.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-013
Published: 01 June 2006
... graceful interpretive gymnastics, but I found my- self often asking, what about context? One example must suffice, from Aber- nathy’s study of To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s intriguing to watch the author dem- Book Reviews 399 onstrate how Atticus...
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Syncopations: The Stress of Innovation in Contemporary American Poetry; Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry

Brooke Horvath
American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 402–404.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-014
Published: 01 June 2006
... graceful interpretive gymnastics, but I found my- self often asking, what about context? One example must suffice, from Aber- nathy’s study of To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s intriguing to watch the author dem- Book Reviews 399 onstrate how Atticus...
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Afro-Orientalism; Consumption and Identity in Asian American Coming-of-Age Novels; Sexual Naturalization: Asian Americans and Miscegenation

George Uba
American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 405–407.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-015
Published: 01 June 2006
... Aber- nathy’s study of To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s intriguing to watch the author dem- Book Reviews 399 onstrate how Atticus Finch winds up representing and upholding white values (through his condescension) and established racial divisions...
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Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions; Urban Triage: Race and the Fictions of Multiculturalism

Alex Feerst
American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 408–409.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-016
Published: 01 June 2006
... Aber- nathy’s study of To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s intriguing to watch the author dem- Book Reviews 399 onstrate how Atticus Finch winds up representing and upholding white values (through his condescension) and established racial divisions...
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Exposés and Excess: Muckraking in America, 1900/2000

Nick Bromell
American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 409–411.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-017
Published: 01 June 2006
... Aber- nathy’s study of To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s intriguing to watch the author dem- Book Reviews 399 onstrate how Atticus Finch winds up representing and upholding white values (through his condescension) and established racial divisions...
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Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 411–412.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-018
Published: 01 June 2006
... context? One example must suffice, from Aber- nathy’s study of To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s intriguing to watch the author dem- Book Reviews 399 onstrate how Atticus Finch winds up representing and upholding white values (through his condescension...
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Canons by Consensus: Critical Trends and American Literary Anthologies; Books, Maps, and Politics: A Cultural History of the Library of Congress, 1783-1861; Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form: Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century America

Joseph Helminski
American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 413–415.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-019
Published: 01 June 2006
... context? One example must suffice, from Aber- nathy’s study of To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s intriguing to watch the author dem- Book Reviews 399 onstrate how Atticus Finch winds up representing and upholding white values (through his condescension...
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Modern Women, Modern Work: Domesticity, Professionalism, and American Writing, 1890-1950; The Business of America: The Cultural Production of a Post-War Nation

Christopher Newfield
American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 415–418.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-020
Published: 01 June 2006
... graceful interpretive gymnastics, but I found my- self often asking, what about context? One example must suffice, from Aber- nathy’s study of To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s intriguing to watch the author dem- Book Reviews 399 onstrate how Atticus...
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Richard Wright and the Black Metropolis: From the Great Migration to the Urban Planning Novel

Bo McMillan
American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 653–680.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8780875
Published: 01 December 2020
... Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) from the original Go Set a Watchman (published in 2015, long after its original composition)—an entirely different text with an entirely different message, gussied up to hide all the necessary ugliness.) One potential area to apply a similar method of analysis...
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New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American Writing; Popular Measures: Poetry and Church Order in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts; Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America

Philip Gould
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 869–872.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-056
Published: 01 December 2006
... Daisy), though also by significant non-Jewish Southern writers—in her view, primarily Harper Lee in To Kill a Mockingbird—as well as a host of little-known or rarely studied texts. McGraw makes a valuable contribution to understanding the two-sidedness of Southern Jewish life: the conflicting pull...
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