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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 803–829.
Published: 01 December 2011
...-Jaber uses the figure of the Palestinian refugee to signal the elided presence of the Native American, thus disrupting the historical homogeneity of the myth of U.S. nation formation and bringing to light instead the model of settler colonialism on which the United States is based. As such, the novel...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 133–158.
Published: 01 March 2022
... historiographic debates unless they can somehow be dramatized. The AC series, however, has increasingly explored ways of using games’ multimedia affordances to highlight AC ’s relationship to historical sources. In later games, the anonymous Animus user in the frame narrative is a game developer...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 121–154.
Published: 01 March 2017
... in her serialized comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For , the Bush presidency posited truth as unknowable, facts as infinitely flexible, and faith as constitutive of reality. Fun Home never mentions the president (nor any historical figure or event after the mid-1980s), but the memoir uses newly available...
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Aztlán’s Asians: Forging and Forgetting Cross-Racial Relations in the Chicana/O Literary Imagination
American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 563–589.
Published: 01 September 2013
... at the US-Mexico border. Yet this figure’s textual marginality,
lacking representational weight in a narrative that itself acknowl-
edges having “forgotten Thomas was even there” (Villareal 1989,
178), also reflects an unease about how other oppressed racial groups
figure in Chicana/o political...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 153–174.
Published: 01 March 2011
... the role of form in relation to political change. Hunt's work shows that formal innovations—in this case, a particularly strange use of ecological metaphor—need not merely reflect historical ruptures, but can also be understood to produce bodily affects that are themselves constitutive of altered attitudes...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 399–438.
Published: 01 September 2022
... reorganization of society; thus, they testify to the partial and uneven postbellum evolution in understandings of disability and poverty as social categories. If mendicant texts tell us about the historical circumstances of disability and its intersection with economic suffering, they also offer productive...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 59–88.
Published: 01 March 2023
... trespasses (2006) and Jai Arun Ravine’s แล้ว and then entwine (2011a). Thai American cultural production is uniquely situated to offer aesthetic insights into the history of US presence in Southeast Asia from the mid-twentieth century onward, which in Thailand took the form of allyship and soft power...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 439–467.
Published: 01 September 2009
... demonstrate the interconnectedness of the ethnographic and conspiratorial frameworks, going as far as to suggest that the Pequots, one of the first Native American groups referred to by name, conspiratorially used their “Indianness” as a weapon. Tracing this connection, from the narratives of Philip Vincent...
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American Literature (2025) 97 (1): 121–153.
Published: 01 March 2025
... of Americanization at NYPL in the 1920s disclose the complexity of belonging while anticipating ongoing debates about how to present the American past to twenty-first-century children. [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 immigrants children of color US historical...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 217–243.
Published: 01 June 2014
... of print in this period was at times incommensurate with the values and practices of Native historiography. Through an analysis of Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations (1827), Radus argues that Cusick, a Tuscarora historian, used various rhetorical and narrative techniques to alter...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 439–472.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Lori Merish Abstract “Picturing Poverty” addresses the striking absence of discussion of poverty in US cultural criticism by turning to the archive to examine historically significant and influential, but previously neglected, early photographs of the poor alongside more familiar literary texts...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 751–781.
Published: 01 December 2019
...: “I am the Lord’s instrument to kill this man” (Hopkins 1988 : 394). This language comes from the historical Brown himself, who defended his antislavery battles by explaining that the Lord “used me as an instrument” (Sanborn 1885 : 259). For Brown, such a sanction mattered because it justified his...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 153–179.
Published: 01 March 2009
... narrative forms. However, Doolen argues that Martin Delany uses the novel form to identify how the fictions of white supremacy established the terms and categories of U.S. historiography. Recognizing that white-authored histories helped maintain the institutions of slavery, Delany attempts to remove African...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 575–602.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Jennie A. Kassanoff The defense of electoral “purity” against intrusion, corruption, and fraud has historically bound US voting to a pernicious set of gendered and racial narratives, chief among them the routine depiction of the ballot as a white woman whose iconic, vulnerable body inscribes...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 426–429.
Published: 01 June 2016
... of lost cosmology, barely present in the film’s subsequent telling of the myth. This attention to the genealogies of visual details asks us to look beyond ideology and narrative, and to think history through a visual aesthetic vocabulary of fragments, cracks, and traces. As Mark writes, “by paying...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 29–55.
Published: 01 March 2010
... Seventy-Six (1823)
as two of the earliest historical novels to use these soldiers as repre-
sentative figures, a practice that became common in historical novels
that appeared after the War of 1812.10 For example, in Samuel Wood-
worth’s The Champions of Freedom (1816), arguably the first histori...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 609–612.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Jenna Grace Sciuto Forms of Dictatorship: Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina/o Novel . By Jennifer Harford Vargas . Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press . 2018 . xiv, 260 pp. Cloth, $69.00 ; paper, $34.95 ; e-book available. Hispanicism and Early US Literature: Spain...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 186–188.
Published: 01 March 2020
... often it operates as audiences’ response, making us ask just why we believe that reading will change us and the world around us. Beloved or similar historical fiction seems to invite readers’ masochistic identification with the characters’ pain (53), while prohibitive readers insist that may...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 607–614.
Published: 01 September 2013
... Trade: The Commercial Cultures of Early US-China Relations.
Edited by Kendall Johnson.Hong Kong: Hong Kong Univ. Press. 2012. xi, 234 pp.
Cloth, $50.00; paper, $25.00.
The essays here turn to primary source material and to historical accounts
of the material cultural exchange between the United...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 115–143.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Gabriella Friedman Abstract Rooted partially in the US sentimental tradition, neo-slave narratives often feature lyrical language, emphasize the emotional experience of enslaved characters, and evoke the reader’s sympathy and empathy. Highlighting the use of sentimental conventions in neo-slave...
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