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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 609–612.
Published: 01 September 2020
... the US South and the global South have the potential to reinvent the region in “radical and hopeful” ways, making space for the creation of transnational communities and solidarity between formerly disparate groups (15). The writers Bone collects effectively challenge the black-white binary as a racial...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 408–410.
Published: 01 June 2015
...AnaMaria Seglie Antarctica in Fiction: Imaginative Narratives of the Far South . By Leane Elizabeth . Cambridge, UK : Cambridge Univ. Press . 2012 . xi , 250 pp. Cloth , $104.99 ; paper , $29.99 ; e-book , $84.00 . Antipodean America: Australasia and the Constitution of US...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 445–472.
Published: 01 September 2021
... in which postplantation spaces in the US South are imbued with temporal slippages such that past and present meet through the built environment. Tracing the plantation’s environmental and infrastructural presence in the Gulf Coast and throughout the US South, this essay argues that the plantation’s...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 523–555.
Published: 01 September 2019
..., this essay establishes the corporate plantation as a heuristic for exploring the imperial logics and practices tying the US South to the larger project of colonial domination in the Caribbean and Latin America, and ultimately reexamines black transnationalism and diaspora from the position of corporate...
FIGURES
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 587–617.
Published: 01 September 2019
..., or for emancipation from slavery. Focusing on the centrality of the plantation to the spatializing logics of black patience, I consider how the Free Southern Theater used performance to demand “freedom now” and to revise the oppressive histories of time rooted in the material geographies of the US South. Mounting...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 505–530.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Amy Clukey The last ten years have seen a reexamination of Margaret Mitchell’s depictions of Irish identity. While these readings tell us a great deal about how Mitchell depicts Irish immigration to the region, colonial history shows that the connections between Ireland and the American South go...
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The Plantation Countermelodies of Dunbar and Du Bois: Writing Agropolitical Subjecthood in the Nadir
American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 557–586.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Benjamin Child Abstract With attention to representations of the land and labor in the postslavery agricultural South of the nadir—a period when American apartheid was at its most violent—this essay uses Paul Laurence Dunbar’s plantation poems and W. E. B. Du Bois’s cotton novel, The Quest...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 303–331.
Published: 01 June 2013
... a response to industrialization and militarization in the South, but as a sustained novelistic reflection on modes of urban renewal in both the United States and a Europe under reconstruction through the Marshall Plan. By unearthing the bivalent history of US urbanism’s sounds and spaces, Requiem for a Nun...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 87–115.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Sonnet Retman In this essay, Retman explores Sterling Brown’s radical use of signifying ethnography in his posthumous collection A Negro Looks at the South (2007), a work of mostly unpublished essays written in the early 1940s when Brown journeyed as a participant observer to take stock of African...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 723–752.
Published: 01 December 2018
..., George Bancroft, and others; provide a thick description of US antebellum religious persecution in both the North and South; and deploy missionary rhetoric to call on European Protestant churches to remake their US counterparts. For 1840s Douglass, slavery in the United States was not a result...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 61–87.
Published: 01 March 2012
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text. Although this view of the South remains a subtext in the novel,
it aligns Chesnutt with contemporaneous African American authors,
such as W. E. B. DuBois and Pauline Hopkins, who saw US involve-
ment in Cuba and the Philippines as an extension of the jingoistic
white supremacy...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 489–518.
Published: 01 September 2010
..., adopting resolutions such as that
passed with acclamation in Martin’s Depot, South Carolina: “If North-
ern fanatics will persist in meddling with our private institutions, we
should reply to them by the use of gutta-percha.”3 In the weeks fol-
lowing the assault, Harriet Beecher Stowe revised...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 575–602.
Published: 01 September 2015
...-Reconstruction South.2
Narratives of and by the ballot have shaped ideas of US citizenship in
important and surprisingly unexamined ways. As Edmund Morgan
(1988, 13) famously observed, “Government requires make-believe.”
Foundational democratic claims—that the one can represent the many...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 751–781.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of vengeance in black-authored texts from the period following formal emancipation to the dawn of the twentieth century: the petitions of the freedmen of Edisto Island, South Carolina; the minutes of the 1865 Virginia State Convention of Colored People; the narrative of the ex-slave Samuel Hall...
FIGURES
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 653–680.
Published: 01 December 2020
... in the country” as of this writing (Betancur, Mossberger, and Zhang 2015 : 89). In 2013, the city closed forty-nine schools in the largest mass public school closing in US history, mostly in the city’s South and West Sides, due to an ongoing “history of segregation and inequality” (Ewing 2018 : 8–9...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 281–307.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Todd Carmody Abstract This essay traces the cultural legacy of the Port Royal Experiment, the Civil War–era social experiment in free labor conducted by Union forces on the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia. Whereas literary and cultural historians typically focus on the “discovery...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 227–253.
Published: 01 June 2021
... as well as in an emphasis on futurity—all grounded in the maternal. [email protected] Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 William Faulkner gender gothic Hawai‘i plantation For more than a decade, proponents of new southern studies have explored the US South...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 892–894.
Published: 01 December 2017
... for new frameworks and approaches to Southern studies that are grounded in reality, as opposed to disciplinary fantasies, and that fully acknowledge the flux of the field. While Lowe focuses on the connections between the cultures of the US South and the Caribbean and Smith focuses on the relationship...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 643–644.
Published: 01 September 2015
... shifted the discussion in
freshly productive directions: what roles does the US South, and Faulkner’s
work more specifically, play in the Native American imagination? What rela-
tions of influence or confluence exist between Faulkner and Native American
writers? What new lines of aesthetic...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 563–572.
Published: 01 September 2022
... in the introduction, starts from the premise “that the exploitation of workers under neoliberalism aligns poor whites in the US South with poor people of all ethnicities across the globe” (xii). Maybe. But I can also imagine that this observation would horrify a historian. You can assert that neoliberalism in one...
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