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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 785–813.
Published: 01 December 2018
... of the antinomians’ monstrous births and in the US Senate floor debate of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act just before the Iraq War in 2003. In both instances, rhetoric comparing familiar bodies to unfamiliar corporeal forms conjures powerful feelings of disgust that legitimize intervention. These powerful...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 489–518.
Published: 01 September 2010
... within an inch of his life Massachusetts Sena-
tor Charles Sumner on the floor of the U.S. Senate, the future U.S.
Attorney General Richard Dana Jr. wrote a letter to the recuperating
Sumner, describing the political effect of the assault using the rheto-
ric of electricity. “When...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 815–839.
Published: 01 December 2018
...-cheney-san-bernardino-obamas-foreign-policy-setting-history-straight/ . Roy Olivier . 2004 . Globalized Islam: The Search for a New Ummah . New York : Columbia Univ. Press . Sasse Ben . 2015 . “ We Are at War with Militant Islam .” Speech to the US Senate, December 8...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 669–695.
Published: 01 December 2017
... for political kickbacks (2001, 146), and the narrator’s snide and unaffiliated tone assures us that the only difference between a regular senator and a “high moral senator” (200) is that the moral ones cost more. Although the novel clearly lampoons the Democratic Tweed ring in its thinly veiled Weed ring...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 463–496.
Published: 01 September 2017
... Firma, or the Spanish Main, in South-America (1806b)—signals a US interest in Spanish American economies, resources, and geopolitics. In his brief introduction to the Irvings’ edition, New York senator Samuel Mitchill—who, for his part, advocated renaming the United States “Fredonia” (Schlereth 1992...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 743–768.
Published: 01 December 2012
... the citizen’s obligations to the state. Invoked by
New York’s William H. Seward on the floor of the US Senate in 1850,
752 American Literature
the higher law soon became a key concept for the antislavery move-
ment and one of the most controversial topics of the antebellum period.
An 1851 pamphlet...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 361–389.
Published: 01 June 2014
... .” In The Legal Understanding of Slavery: From the Historical to the Contemporary , edited by Allain Jean , 61 – 84 . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . Calhoun John C. 1837 . “ Slavery a Positive Good .” Speech delivered to the US Senate , February 6 . teachingamericanhistory.org/library...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 895–897.
Published: 01 December 2003
... is in his challenge not only to those who
translate Chinese literature but also to all who read cultural translations: we
must keep in mind the ethnographic tendencies behind the use of Chinese
representational...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 843–867.
Published: 01 December 2003
...-1940s.16 Senator Joseph McCarthy
himself used the phrase in a career-making speech on the floor of
the Senate in 1950: ‘‘In the Lincoln Day speech at Wheeling Thurs-
day night I stated that the State Department harbors...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 797–826.
Published: 01 December 2012
... upon the analytics for articulating racial difference honed in US race and ethnic studies to help illuminate Williams’s literary efforts to formulate an early politics of comparative racialization. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Edlie Wong Comparative Racialization, Immigration Law...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 751–781.
Published: 01 December 2019
... Winona and her suitor Warren Maxwell. 11 Understood thus, Judah has at least one potential historical analogue in Matthew Gaines, a black senator who served for a short time in the Texas legislature early in Reconstruction. If Hopkins used her novel to push the limits of literary representation...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 647–650.
Published: 01 September 2018
... a picture of a sophisticated antislavery treatise that used scripture to diagnose Atlantic barbarism and anticipated its role in the culture’s “decline from ‘ethical religion’ into an apostate form of Christianity” (25). The better-known abolitionists, Equiano and Gronniosaw, emerge in chapter 2, where...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 751–782.
Published: 01 December 2000
... and national character through
the paradigm of doing good.
In the decades before the Civil War, Americans used the terms be-
nevolence and benevolent with astonishing frequency, not only where...
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American Literature 10679293.
Published: 28 April 2023
... O Connor; and perhaps most biting of all, commentary on colorism within US Black communities. Ta-Nehisi Coates in a brief foreword likens the book to Racecraft, the race-debunking volume by Karen Fields and Barbara Fields, but Morrison is interested in racial othering less as ctive ruse than...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 333–360.
Published: 01 June 2010
..., religiously motivated group of individuals—an Emerson of the terror cell. © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Michael Emersonian Terrorism: John Brown, Islam,
Ziser and Postsecular Violence
But let us honestly state the facts. Our America has a bad...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 93–122.
Published: 01 March 2005
...Janet Dean Duke University Press 2005 Janet Nameless Outrages: Narrative Authority, Rape
Dean Rhetoric, and the Dakota Conflict of 1862
Mr. President, let us relate to you some facts with which
we fear you have not heretofore been made...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 821–845.
Published: 01 December 2006
... with Cuba is more than just
a shame, it’s a dangerous diversion from reality So says Senator Max
Baucus, Democrat of Montana and ranking member of the Finance
Committee, in response to the Bush administration’s use of military
aircraft to help American broadcasters reach Cuba and increase the
money...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 689–696.
Published: 01 December 2020
... suggesting we could have imagined Black people stranded on rooftops, crammed into the Superdome, or floating by houses, dead, in streets that had become rivers. Still, we carried within us a knowledge that a racial tragedy of enormous proportion was bound to occur within our lifetimes, if still off somewhere...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 659–685.
Published: 01 December 2009
... uses can help reveal what it is we affirm—conceptually
and legally—when we affirm our privacy rights.
My focus in the following pages will not be on the similarities
between Natty Bumppo and Randy Weaver in particular. They simply
represent two of many spokesmen...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 475–504.
Published: 01 September 2013
... mine)
Webster subordinates the geographical location of the ship (in the
Bahamas) to a speculative narrative of how it “ought to be regarded”
(in keeping with US jurisdiction). Prefiguring his ambivalent role bro-
kering the 1850 Compromise as a Massachusetts senator, Webster
evades...
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