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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 497–527.
Published: 01 September 2017
... impoverished. These difficulties, I argue, arose not just from the systems of industrial publishing but also from the systems of political value instituted by art in what Jacques Rancière calls the “aesthetic regime.” I pursue this hypothesis by examining contemporary texts that argue for authors’ rights...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 495–523.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of aesthetics in western Europe and the United States as it developed in response to the revolutions of the eighteenth century that ushered in liberal politi- cal regimes and societies oriented around (newly) autonomous, self- governing citizen-subjects. Aesthetic theory in the United States arose...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (3): 381–410.
Published: 01 September 2024
..., and the symbolic” (da Silva 2014 : 82). Furthermore, opening with poetry as an entry point to the law implicitly insists on the necessity of Black thought and aesthetics for holistically contending with the history of American law’s relationship to political economies. In her encounter with this relation, Harris...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 447–457.
Published: 01 September 2023
... political because it reorganizes the sensible; it redraws the bounds of what is sayable, visible, and audible and which groups can be seen, can speak, can be heard. While aesthetics has the capacity to upend regimes of truth and representation, as Rancière claims, it also has the potential to generate what...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (4): 685–712.
Published: 01 December 2021
...,” Rancière ( 1999 : 55) argues, “happens through a paradoxical mise-en-scène that brings the community and the noncommunity together.” Rancière’s project therefore similarly depends on the construction of such a space, and it is the aesthetic that “allows separate regimes of expression” to be conjoined...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 648–650.
Published: 01 September 2016
... and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press [1997], 9). All three situate the aesthetic word in relation to a range of institutional, cultural, and political worlds that lie beyond poetry’s frame. They continue the work of restoring the political and critical capabilities once recognized by early Marxists...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 587–617.
Published: 01 September 2019
... time-conscious plays, the theater used temporal aesthetics to transform the region’s historical geographies of black time (e.g., the labor time of black slaves and sharecroppers working in cotton fields) into radical sites of black political action, aesthetic innovation, and embodied performance...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 650–653.
Published: 01 September 2017
... may be premature. Such habits may serve an instructive role for contemporary writers forming their cultural orientations. At their most potent, however, distancing practices underlie an aesthetics of lived experience, one potentially at odds with neoliberal ideologies of conformity and consent...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 225–253.
Published: 01 June 2017
... distinct ways, which eventually converge. In addition to what he calls the “constitutive regime” of literariness—defined and signaled by fictionality—he identifies what he calls the “conditional regime” of literariness, which encompasses those texts that are not primarily oriented toward the “aesthetic...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 485–511.
Published: 01 September 2020
... would create a distinctive, sublime aesthetics to capture, using landscape descriptions to render the contradictions of the new regime of capitalized nature. In The Octopus and The Pit , then, humanity in itself would not be much more than an “insect” in relation to natural planetary forces...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 435–437.
Published: 01 June 2019
... in an effort to describe how aesthetic and other texts help define and shape entities far larger than the individual: citizenry, mass, public, population. The archives they invoke are not recognizably literary in nature, ranging from an infamous photograph of a Vietnam War atrocity to the stories of refugee...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 767–797.
Published: 01 December 2014
... to mask the unequal relations of production that define capitalism as a system. Against this regime of secular time that Benjamin christens “empty, homogeneous time” or a “continuum” of history, we can read the pro- phetic efforts of 1930s radical aesthetics as equally an attempt to coun- termand...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 497–525.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., this essay contends that these texts account for how the juridical architecture of eviction itself creates the space and social mechanisms for anti-eviction resistance to take place. In so doing, this article positions housing and homeless justice as a politics central to the aesthetic experimentations...
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American Literature 11557529.
Published: 09 October 2024
... of individual mobility became the expected representational regime for ethnic writers in the second half of the twentieth century (Moretti 1987: 5). This dissent illustrates what Glenda R. Carpio (2023: 14) sees as a contemporary shift in the aesthetic practices of migrant ction that reject the empathy model...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 609–612.
Published: 01 September 2020
... migrant laborers, for instance, Bone uses his historical-geographical materialist lens to argue for a “third space” between attacks on Hurston’s antirealism and her fetishizing of US southern folk aesthetics (33). In addition to exploitative labor continuities, Bone notes that demographic flows between...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 601–603.
Published: 01 September 2020
...-metaphor casta ” (190) reveals liberalism’s continuities with earlier racial regimes. Chapter 4 then describes how the rebels improvised alternative forms of libertad that rendered equality compatible with difference. Given his celebration of nonelite quotidiana as an antidote to pernicious western...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 885–888.
Published: 01 December 2017
... is to be struck, time and again, at how wondrous canonical formations and their religio-aesthetic convictions are, especially those of New England. And it is to be struck, time and again, by the degree to which each of these scholar-enthusiasts—New explicitly, Buell implicitly—convey the ever-self-renewing, ever...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 331–354.
Published: 01 June 2017
... and Littlefield . Hicks George . 1994 . The Comfort Women: Japan’s Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War . New York : Norton . Hicks George . 1999 . “ The Comfort Women Redress Movement .” In When Sorry Isn’t Enough: The Controversy over Apologies and Reparations...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 469–495.
Published: 01 September 2009
...- and early modern sexuality are drawn—a reconsideration that nominates aesthetic representations, rather than empirical evidence, as key sites of sexuality's modern articulation. The essay concludes that any concern for the manner in which the articulation of sensation produces human interiority would...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 115–121.
Published: 01 March 2023
... to the French or German existentialist philosophers” ( 1978 : 39). The dominance of Jim Crow segregation’s economic regimes (e.g., redlining) and social enforcements (e.g., lynching) rendered the moral frameworks and political logics of the US civil rights movement absurd. The realities of mid-century Black...