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Bestial Traces: Race, Sexuality, Animality Animalia Americana: Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 199–201.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Susan McHugh Bestial Traces: Race, Sexuality, Animality . By Peterson Christopher . New York : Fordham Univ. Press . 2012 . 208 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper , $24.00 . Animalia Americana: Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity . By Boggs Colleen Glenney...
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Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory; Bending over Backwards: Disability, Dismodernism, and Other Difficult Positions
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 655–657.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Celeste Langan Duke University Press 2006 Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory . By Cary Wolfe. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2003. xv, 237 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $20.00. Bending over Backwards: Disability, Dismodernism...
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The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-Era US Literature and Culture Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 836–838.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Christina Chia 836 American Literature
The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-Era US Literature and Culture. By
Michael Lundblad. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2013. xi, 218 pp. Cloth, $65.00;
paper, $29.95.
Animal Stories: Narrating across Species Lines. By Susan McHugh...
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A More “Human(e)” Society? Animal Autobiography and the Shaping of Race, Species, and Gender
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American Literature (2024) 96 (3): 411–441.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Karah M. Mitchell Abstract At the turn of the twentieth century, animal welfare work occupied an increasingly prominent position in the United States, with women’s animal autobiographies serving particularly formative roles in teaching child readers “humane” values. During this same period, felines...
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Revising the Human: Silence, Being, and the Question of the Animal in Nightwood
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American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 57–84.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Carrie Rohman Duke University Press 2007 Carrie Revising the Human: Silence,
Rohman Being, and the Question of the
Animal in Nightwood
. . . [T]he voice functions as a foreign body, as a kind of
parasite introducing...
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The Modernist Corpse: Posthumanism and the Posthumous Antebellum Posthuman: Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Narratology beyond the Human: Storytelling and Animal Life
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 384–387.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Christopher Breu As strong as Ellis’s book is, David Herman’s book is at least its equal. Indeed, Herman’s application of narrative theory to posthumanism, specifically to contemporary work in animal studies, is nothing short of revelatory. On the face of it, narrative theory and animal studies...
View articletitled, The Modernist Corpse: Posthumanism and the Posthumous Antebellum Posthuman: Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Narratology beyond the Human: Storytelling and <span class="search-highlight">Animal</span> Life
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American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 213–215.
Published: 01 March 2007
... American Culture . By Karen Sánchez-Eppler. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2005. xxviii, 260 pp. $35.00. Civilized Creatures: Urban Animals, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850-1900 . By Jennifer Mason. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2005. 240 pp. $55.00...
View articletitled, Elusive Childhood: Impossible Representations in Modern Fiction; Dependent States: The Child's Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture; Civilized Creatures: Urban <span class="search-highlight">Animals</span>, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850-1900; Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the Place of American Poetry, 1865-1917
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for article titled, Elusive Childhood: Impossible Representations in Modern Fiction; Dependent States: The Child's Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture; Civilized Creatures: Urban <span class="search-highlight">Animals</span>, Sentimental Culture, and American Literature, 1850-1900; Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the Place of American Poetry, 1865-1917
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“A Foul Lump Started Making Promises in My Voice”: Race, Affect, and the Animated Subject
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 571–601.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Sianne Ngai Duke University Press 2002 Sianne ‘‘A Foul Lump Started Making Promises in My
Ngai Voice Race, Affect, and the Animated Subject
an-i-mate vt :1:to give spirit and support to: ENCOURAGE
2a: to give life to b: to give vigor...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 199–200.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Frederick Luis Aldama © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 The Colored Cartoon: Black Representation in American Animated Short Films, 1907–1954 . By Christopher P. Lehman. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2007. 152 pp. $29.95. What Have They Built You to Do...
View articletitled, The Colored Cartoon: Black Representation in American <span class="search-highlight">Animated</span> Short Films, 1907–1954; What Have They Built You to Do? The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America; Politics, Desire, and the Hollywood Novel
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 402–404.
Published: 01 June 2013
...–1893 . By Noonan Mark J. . Kent, OH : Kent State Univ. Press . 2010 . xix, 235 pp. $65.00 . Suspended Animation: Children’s Picture Books and the Fairy Tale of Modernity . By de Beeck Nathalie op . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2010 . xix, 262 pp. Cloth , $82.50...
View articletitled, Discerning Characters: The Culture of Appearance in Early America Reading the “Century Illustrated” Monthly Magazine: American Literature and Culture, 1870–1893 Suspended <span class="search-highlight">Animation</span>: Children’s Picture Books and the Fairy Tale of Modernity
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Loving Gorillas: Segregation Literature, Animality, and Black Liberation
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 123–149.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Eve Dunbar Abstract Deeply rooted racial logics of Western culture have long used animal metaphors and affiliations as a method for negatively coding the species permeability between black people and nonhuman animals. Responsively, many black cultural producers have sought to acquire access...
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Racial Abstraction and Species Difference: Anthropomorphic Animals in “Multicultural” Children’s Literature
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 323–356.
Published: 01 June 2019
...Leslie Bow Abstract This essay explores anthropomorphism in contemporary children’s literature, books in which animals model racialized behaviors in order to promote racial resilience and “teach tolerance.” Unveiling the unintended consequences of invoking species difference as a form of racial...
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Epistemology of the Jungle: Progressive-Era Sexuality and the Nature of the Beast
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 747–773.
Published: 01 December 2009
... at that moment. But Sedgwick and others working on histories of sexuality in the United States have elided what Lundblad identifies as the discourse of the jungle : Darwinist-Freudian constructions of “the human” and “the animal” that redefine various behaviors in relation to animal instincts. This discourse...
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The Cod and the Whale: Melville in the Time of Extinction
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 851–879.
Published: 01 December 2017
...John Levi Barnard Abstract This essay tracks the interrelated histories of the cod and the whale from John Smith’s colonial American vision of abundance to the near disappearance of the living resources he described as inexhaustible. Working at the intersections of animal studies, food studies...
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“This Alarming Generosity”: White Elephants and the Logic of the Gift
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 747–773.
Published: 01 December 2011
... in the 1850s. Although a certain kind of albino elephant ( chang pheuak ) was regarded as auspicious in Siam, these animals were not white, nor were they given as gifts by the king of Siam in order to ruin his rivals. Bullen traces the emergence of the white elephant as a figure for value in European...
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The Logic of Left Alone: The Pioneers and the Conditions of U.S. Privacy
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 659–685.
Published: 01 December 2009
... the extent to which the often-contradictory coordinates that delineate this curve animate modern philosophical and legal conceptions of privacy in the same ways they animate The Pioneers —a novel that presciently narrates the fraught conditions of the right to privacy in U.S. history. © 2009 by Duke...
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Edgar Huntly and the Regulation of the Senses
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 419–445.
Published: 01 September 2013
... critiques of psychoanalytic readings have tended to miss. Psychoanalysis has its roots in animal magnetism, or mesmerism, a practice of mental healing that in Brown’s day presented “magnetic somnambulists” who entered a semiconscious state identical to natural sleepwalking. In this state, they had...
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Embodied Politics: Antebellum Vegetarianism and the Dietary Economy of Walden
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 33–60.
Published: 01 March 2013
... . Uniting private practices with public reform, Thoreau draws on Graham's theory of a universal physiological constitution that all human beings, and perhaps even animals, could be imagined to possess, in order to denominate the human body as a significant site of political reform. Ultimately, antebellum...
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Toward a Literature of Landed Resistance: Land’s Agency in American Literature, Law, and History
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American Literature (2024) 96 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2024
... agency in a manner not seen in settler texts and legislation, and to partner with land in acts of resistance. Understanding land as an active member of society and legislator shows land’s role as an agent and influence in community- and nation-building. (Re)animating land across history opens up new...
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Drowning (in) Kittens: The Reproduction of Girlhood in Victorian America
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 305–331.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Elizabeth Barnes Following Donna Haraway’s concept of the “killable” animal in When Species Meet , this essay looks at the social conditions and literary conventions that render ostensibly “priceless” objects, like pets and children, disposable in the Victorian period. Through the Victorian trope...
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