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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 447–457.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Gwen Bergner Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. This special issue focuses on the plantation, the postplantation, and the afterlives of slavery to consider how...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 587–617.
Published: 01 September 2019
.... Engaging and reinvesting the meanings of the South’s plantation geographies, the theater revealed how one hundred years after emancipation, time remained essential to procuring the afterlives of slavery and colonialism and to shoring up the region’s necropolitical attachments. Examining these aesthetic...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 491–521.
Published: 01 September 2019
... for understanding slavery and its carceral afterlives. This question becomes particularly pressing when we consider that today’s prison-industrial complex, like the American slaveholder of the past, extracts profits by strategically exploiting—rather than denying—the lucrative humanity of its captive black...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 666–668.
Published: 01 September 2017
... focuses on the plantation, the post-plantation, and the afterlives of slavery to consider how we have inherited and continue to be structured by the plantation form. This reconsideration of the plantation form heeds recent calls to reconceptualize notions of the human in relation to colonial plantation...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 874–876.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 This special issue focuses on the plantation, the post-plantation, and the afterlives of slavery to consider how we have inherited and continue to be structured by the plantation form. This reconsideration of the plantation form heeds...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 209–212.
Published: 01 March 2017
... for “The Novel of Human Rights” (88:1, 127–57). Members of the judging committee were Michael Elliott (chair), Emory University; Nihad Farooq, Georgia Institute of Technology; and Zita Nunes, University of Maryland. This special issue focuses on the plantation, the post-plantation, and the afterlives...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 382–384.
Published: 01 June 2020
... the traumas of slavery and its afterlives; in that respect, Davis is careful to stress that some African Americans are critical of these ventures, especially those that are part of history museums. But these projects do not simply dwell on stories of trauma. Instead, they rewrite those stories to emphasize...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 187–195.
Published: 01 March 2018
... and occasionally positive terms in the United States than in Europe. The book explores two major types of female poisoners: the romantic poisoner, depicted by John Keats and Edgar Allan Poe, and the democratic poisoner, depicted by Nathaniel Hawthorne and George Lippard. Dismantling Slavery: Frederick...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 660–664.
Published: 01 September 2016
... ( [email protected] ) Cristobal Silva ( [email protected] ), and Abram Van Engen ( [email protected] ). This special issue focuses on the plantation, the post-plantation, and the afterlives of slavery to consider how we have inherited and continue to be structured by the plantation form...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 501–519.
Published: 01 December 2024
... Hartman (1997, 2022 ) and others has unsettled the association between citizenship and freedom by excavating the afterlives of enslavement, the ongoing violences of settler colonialism, and the forms of subjection that fetter nominally free individuals, often through the mechanisms of citizenship...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 439–445.
Published: 01 June 2016
... ). This special issue focuses on the plantation, the post-plantation, and the afterlives of slavery to consider how we have inherited and continue to be structured by the plantation form. This reconsideration of the plantation form heeds recent calls to reconceptualize notions of the human in relation to colonial...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 461–493.
Published: 01 September 2018
... textual afterlives. Excerpts appeared in major abolitionist newspapers like the Liberator , the Emancipator , the Anti-Slavery Bugle (New-Lisbon, OH), the North Star (Rochester, NY), and highly local venues like Central Massachusetts’s Barre Patriot and the Hudson Valley’s Rondout Freeman...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 428–430.
Published: 01 June 2017
...). In Pratt’s words, Levine’s Lives of Frederick Douglass “acknowledge[s] the evolving figures the dead continue to be,” and in Levine’s own words, he shows that “Douglass’s lives produced afterlives—conflicting, elusive, and inspirational—which are among his greatest legacies” (306). Levine’s book...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 159–179.
Published: 01 March 2022
... . References Baldwin James . 1955 . Notes of a Native Son . Edited by Jones Edward P. . Revised edition. Boston : Beacon Press . Bergner Gwen . 2019 . “ Introduction: The Plantation, the Postplantation, and the Afterlives of Slavery .” In “The Plantation, the Postplantation...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 523–555.
Published: 01 September 2019
....) and exploitative labor techniques. Whereas colonialism and imperialism in the Caribbean and Latin America and Jim Crow in the United States are rightly viewed as divergent afterlives of slavery and the plantation, the similarities between DPL’s and UFCO’s management practices and disciplinary techniques suggest...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 836–838.
Published: 01 December 2014
... presence that brackets Lancaster’s study,
which begins with Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark (1992) to explore the
alienation of whiteness from value, and effectively ends with a chapter titled
“Up from Eugenics,” conjuring the now-absent word slavery. This bracketing
signals one...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 697–706.
Published: 01 December 2020
... to normalize “work without respite” as part and parcel of slavery’s afterlives in the United States. When President Trump said, “I would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter,” he was speaking neither in defiance of medical commonsense nor in ignorance of epidemiological...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 569–596.
Published: 01 September 2023
... imagination shows how, as Katherine McKittrick ( 2006 , ix) writes, the “earth is also skin.” M Archive ’s sensuous geographies open up the elemental genealogies and ecologies that make up the geographical and social afterlives of the Middle Passage. Written in close engagement with M. Jacqui Alexander’s...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 678–686.
Published: 01 September 2019
... the experimental and constraint-escaping inquiries of William James and John Dewey, including such topics as ontological skepticism and the impact of James’s radical empiricism on the Kyoto school. Henry James’s Feminist Afterlives: Annie Fields, Emily Dickinson, Marguerite Duras . By Kathryn Wichelns. Cham...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 343–356.
Published: 01 June 2020
... . Commonwealth . Cambridge, MA : Harvard Univ. Press . Hartman Saidiya V. 1997 . Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . Stanton Domna C. , ed. 2006 . “ The Humanities in Human Rights: Critique, Language...
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