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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 452–454.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Karen Dubinsky Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature . By Callahan Cynthia . Ann Arbor : Univ. of Michigan Press . 2011 . 190 pp. $70.00 . Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging . By Jerng Mark C. . Minneapolis : Univ...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 193–195.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Allison S. Curseen Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights . By Bernstein Robin . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2011 . 318 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper , $24.00 . Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity...
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Rescued Children and Unfit Mothers: Dreiser’s Social Work in the Delineator ’s Child-Rescue Campaign
American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 57–89.
Published: 01 March 2017
... reproduction. Readers were able to write in to the magazine to adopt “dependent” children whose images and stories were featured in each issue. The essay suggests that these serialized images and “tragic histories” constructed a form of realism in which the Delineator ’s readers were invited to act as maternal...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 513–537.
Published: 01 September 2023
... appetites for racialized intimacies. syou@risd.edu Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 adoption interracial love multiculturalism sexuality nationalism In her seminal work Playing in the Dark , Toni Morrison ( 1992 ) critiques how the history of slavery produces...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 243–269.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Molly Farrell Farrell places Harriet Beecher Stowe's abolitionist novel Uncle Tom's Cabin in the context of the nineteenth-century movement for education reform. Her essay explores the novel's representation of pedagogy and adoption and how these techniques worked simultaneously to incorporate...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 509–545.
Published: 01 September 2011
... educational ideology. By elucidating how the image of the “Indian” functions as a shifting signifier in these photos, this essay offers insight into how educational institutions for black, white, and native students taught them to acquire different subject positions in the process of adopting U.S. citizenship...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 253–279.
Published: 01 June 2009
... era leads to the adoption of a progressive atomism that relocates the spiritual power of subjectivity within the material. “Song of Myself” thus develops a chemistry of embodied presence that makes it possible to demonstrate that “every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.” In 1856, “Crossing...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 281–303.
Published: 01 June 2009
... adopted by their characters as they encounter others who are “different” and struggle to “know” and communicate with them. Both novels go beyond merely representing the problem of knowing and communicating difference to deploy sophisticated narrative methods that and pull their readers into this problem...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 745–779.
Published: 01 December 2013
... accessible the material effects of the American military-industrial-media-entertainment network on historical consciousness. Braid adopts the affordances of game form to develop a formally experimental analytic of processing—one that is aesthetic, affective, and interactively experiential as opposed...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 781–809.
Published: 01 December 2013
... methodologies adopted from computer science to help us analyze the vast, networked nature of knowledge and information in postindustrial society produce a major change in our understanding of literature and culture, and indeed the humanities? Some have suggested that we have already embarked on a post...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 87–115.
Published: 01 March 2014
... the ways the ethnographer cannot gain access to his field. As Brown interrogates the practice of anthropology that he himself deploys, he adopts oppositional or signifying methods of observation and representation, different ways of seeing, hearing, moving and telling, in his fieldwork. Retman argues...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 33–59.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of definition. Throughout the nineteenth century, as their adult selves looked back on their early years, formerly enslaved people adopted a number of different strategies to understand and narrate how they came to be who they were and what their formative experiences meant in terms of the trajectory...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 323–356.
Published: 01 June 2019
... children acquire and unlearn biases, the work engages two arenas: books that imagine the adoptive family as cross-species alliance and those that depict biodiversity as a visual metaphor for multiculturalism. In looking at the adult’s ventriloquism of imaginary figures for the imagined child, the essay...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 611–635.
Published: 01 September 2010
... done particular damage to the humanities. Both overall national educational attainment and advanced academic research will be improved by building funding structures with egalitarian procedures and goals—which require greatly expanded public funding—and faculty will need to adopt egalitarian values...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 31–60.
Published: 01 March 2012
... (1904), and his “Letter to American Teachers of History” (1910)—in relation to the philosophical writings of Hans Blumenberg and Hans Jonas on the status of nature in modernity, Fleissner argues that recent Darwinisms, including those adopted by “Darwinist literary criticism,” conceive of an “ordering...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 529–556.
Published: 01 September 2017
... a “hermeneutics of suspicion.” Rather, apathy is an interpretive stance in its own right, proactive in the critical postures it adopts as much as it is reactive to any culture that defines itself, at least in part, on the basis of its relation to feelings. References Agamben Giorgio . 2000...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 591–626.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of the bildungsroman to capture the double-edged nature of independence: the adoption of a trade policy that would economically bind together the Philippines and the United States and that would render political freedom impossible for Filipinos unless relations of colonial dependency were to be continued after...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 437–440.
Published: 01 June 2012
... mobility allows Ninh to examine the model
minority idea from inside the immigrant family, which arguably is the most
important critical intervention of her study. Instead of taking an either-or
approach, whereby critics either adopt the view that Asian Americans are a
model minority...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 440–442.
Published: 01 June 2012
... mobility allows Ninh to examine the model
minority idea from inside the immigrant family, which arguably is the most
important critical intervention of her study. Instead of taking an either-or
approach, whereby critics either adopt the view that Asian Americans are a
model minority...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 442–444.
Published: 01 June 2012
... of taking an either-or
approach, whereby critics either adopt the view that Asian Americans are a
model minority (the “model minority paradigm”) or refute the claim as myth
(the “model minority thesis Ninh focuses on how the construct is inter-
twined with the place of Asian American (reproductive...
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