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Moved by Another Life: Altered Sentience and Historical Poiesis in the Peyote Craze
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American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 459–486.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Sylvie Boulette Abstract This article follows the transsensory pathways opened by peyote, a mood-altering entheogen, as it diffused among Native peoples living under and along the edges of colonial occupation around the turn of the twentieth century. It traces that movement through the pulsions...
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Alterity Politics: Ethics and Performative Subjectivity
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American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 446–447.
Published: 01 June 2000
... of
rhetorical, political, and moral energy.
James Emmett Ryan, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
Alterity Politics:Ethics and Performative Subjectivity . By Jeffrey T. Nealon. Dur...
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Spinster Ecology: Rachel Carson, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Nonreproductive Futurity
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 409–435.
Published: 01 June 2012
... of texts that take up this mode of invested indirection in their content and form alike, she argues for a spinster ecology that alters our notion not only of where the future lies but also of how (or if) it arrives. Ensor turns first to Silent Spring to argue that Rachel Carson’s intransitive understanding...
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The Technê Whim: Lin Yutang and the Invention of the Chinese Typewriter
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 389–419.
Published: 01 June 2010
... ” not only provides a more accurate picture of Lin's transnational literary development; it also opens a space for a reading of Lin's novel Chinatown Family that dramatically alters the typical Asian American understanding of his work and offers an important contribution to the larger critical discourse...
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Fugitive Obscura: Runaway Slave Portraiture and Early Photographic Technology
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 93–125.
Published: 01 March 2009
... a complicated form of resistance that alters our understandings of antebellum African American aesthetic production and the history of nineteenth-century visual culture more generally. © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Sarah Fugitive Obscura:
Blackwood Runaway Slave Portraiture...
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A Wayward Art: Battle-Pieces and Melville's Poetic Turn
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 91–119.
Published: 01 March 2010
... that Melville's turn to poetry originates not in a politico-aesthetic reversal or withdrawal—as some critics have argued—but rather in a revised understanding of historical change. In his experience of the Civil War, Melville comes to perceive history as an agent of destructive repetition. This altered historical...
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Organic Shrapnel: Affect and Aesthetics in September 11 Fiction
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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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Printing Native History in David Cusick’s Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations
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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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How to Undo the History of Sexuality: Editing Edward Taylor’s Meditations
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 753–784.
Published: 01 December 2018
... plural ways in which cultures and their various institutions efface and alter sexual meaning.” Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 devotion poetry queer textual editing Unless proven otherwise, Puritan literature is rarely presumed to be queer. But why? Even scholars at work...
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in Extra Consciousness, Extra Fingers: Automatic Writing and Disabled Authorship
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Published: 01 September 2023
Alterations in Personality (Binet 1896 : 191)
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“Prismatic and Profitable”: Commerce and the Corporate Person in James's “The Jolly Corner”
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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 807–831.
Published: 01 December 2004
... to read ‘‘The Jolly Corner’’ as a Jamesian drama
of consciousness, a conflict between the uneasily repatriated Spencer
Brydon and his archaic other self in a house that functions metaphori-
cally as a single mind. When commerce figures at all, it is exclusively
allied with Brydon’s ‘‘alter ego’’ (what...
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The History of Jewish American Literary History: A Critical Genealogy of Emergence
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 121–150.
Published: 01 March 2019
... 2014 , 12). 24 And it wasn’t just the writers; the critics who read them were also attuned to the almost immediate petrification of the cliché. In 1969 Robert Alter validated the emergence narrative in claiming that “the sudden new ascendency” and “rise to prominence in American literature...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 237–249.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Gerry Canavan; Priscilla Wald © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Gerry Preface
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Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible; Displacing the Divine: The Minister in the Mirror of American Fiction; Transforming Scriptures: African American Women Writers and the Bible
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 443–445.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Claudia Stokes Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible . By Robert Alter. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2010. 198 pp. $19.95. Displacing the Divine: The Minister in the Mirror of American Fiction . By Douglas Alan Walrath. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2010. xvi...
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War on Dirt: Aesthetics, Empire, and Infrastructure in the Low Nineteenth Century
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 361–390.
Published: 01 September 2021
... justifies Columbus’s “painful years and persevering toil” as expanding a hemispheric empire “o’er the pathless main.” And central to this expansion is infrastructure—alterations to the landscape that would make it possible to “trace new regions o’er the” terra firma of the Americas’ “bounteous shore” (26...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 446–448.
Published: 01 June 2011
...: American Prose and the King James Bible. By Robert Alter. Princeton,
N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2010. 198 pp. $19.95.
Displacing the Divine: The Minister in the Mirror of American Fiction. By Douglas
Alan Walrath. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2010. xvi, 379 pp. $55.00.
Transforming...
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Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England; Indian Work: Language and Livelihood in Native American History; X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 449–451.
Published: 01 June 2011
... Alter. Princeton,
N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2010. 198 pp. $19.95.
Displacing the Divine: The Minister in the Mirror of American Fiction. By Douglas
Alan Walrath. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2010. xvi, 379 pp. $55.00.
Transforming Scriptures: African American Women Writers...
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The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism; Nations of Nothing but Poetry: Modernism, Transnationalism, and Synthetic Vernacular Writing
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 451–453.
Published: 01 June 2011
.... Press. 2010. xiii, 240 pp. $49.95. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Book Reviews
Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible. By Robert Alter. Princeton,
N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2010. 198 pp. $19.95.
Displacing the Divine: The Minister in the Mirror of American Fiction...
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Entitled to the Pedestal: Place, Race, and Progress in White Southern Women's Writing, 1920–1945; Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Prosperity on the Postslavery Plantation
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 454–456.
Published: 01 June 2011
.... Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2007. xi, 226 pp. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $23.95. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Book Reviews
Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible. By Robert Alter. Princeton,
N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2010. 198 pp. $19.95.
Displacing...
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Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950–1963; Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 456–458.
Published: 01 June 2011
.... $55.00. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Book Reviews
Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible. By Robert Alter. Princeton,
N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2010. 198 pp. $19.95.
Displacing the Divine: The Minister in the Mirror of American Fiction. By Douglas
Alan Walrath...
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