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American Literature 11398671.
Published: 26 June 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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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 799–807.
Published: 01 December 2020
... sources are also documenting ecological effects of pandemic that include lowered carbon emissions, reduced air pollution in major cities, and clean water, if not playful animals, in Venetian canals. And there is photographic evidence of wild boars foraging in Corsica, mountain goats roaming the streets...
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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 (2013) 85 (2): 333–361.
Published: 01 June 2013
... of Persuasion: Politics of Representation in 1930s America . Cambridge, UK : Cambridge Univ. Press . Szalay Michael . 2000 . New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . Thurston Michael . 2001 . Making Something...
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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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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 305–331.
Published: 01 June 2014
... . 2013 . “ Animal Humanism: Race, Species, and Affective Kinship in Nineteenth-Century Abolitionism .” American Quarterly 65 , no. 3 : 487 – 514 . Fitzgerald Maureen . 2006 . The Habits of Compassion: Irish Catholic Nuns and the Origins of New York’s Welfare System, 1830-1920 . Urbana...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 273–301.
Published: 01 June 2013
... .” April 18 . Newlin Keith . 1987 . “ Georgia Scenes: The Satiric Artistry of Augustus Baldwin Longstreet .” Mississippi Quarterly 41 ( Winter ): 21 – 37 . Novak William J . 1996 . The People’s Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America . Chapel Hill : Univ...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 337–349.
Published: 01 June 2023
... Anwuli and her child from the worst of the pollen storm, able to learn and adapt to the changing situation. It filters both pollen and information, sifting through data and shutting out the harmful peri grass. Okorafor’s story animates the intimacies between AI and ecology in a variety of important...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (1): 113–137.
Published: 01 March 2024
... As opposed to Ellis’s Bateman, who is openly vile, Wolfe’s McCoy self-consciously conceals the violence of his privilege beneath a veneer of aristocracy. Nonetheless, the same anxieties animate both men and both novels, and the explicitness of American Psycho helps point to identical forces operating more...
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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
... during its campaign, which ran from 1907 to 1911 (Berebitsky 2009 , 124). And while children that the Delineator featured in its pages were those who lived in orphanages, as historians of social welfare in the United States have observed, most children in institutional care were not actually orphans...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 439–472.
Published: 01 September 2022
...-class parents to the earnings and persons of their children, was contested in the courts, even as the representational devices of Halliday’s text enact the breaching of working-class familial integrity and autonomy. But despite Halliday’s effort to depict Irish parents as brutal animals and to contrast...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 301–330.
Published: 01 June 2016
... separate but equal accommodations was a reasonable use of the state’s police powers rested on a community’s recognition of the regulation of race as a viable factor in the maintenance of its “health and welfare.” If, with the Fourteenth Amendment, the US government had relinquished the whiteness formerly...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2017
... : Houghton Mifflin . Chesnutt Charles . 1901 . “ Superstitions and Folk-Lore of the South .” Modern Culture 13 , no. 1 : 231 – 35 . Cohen Cathy . 1997 . “ Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics? ” GLQ 3 , no. 4 : 437 – 65 . David...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 865–886.
Published: 01 December 2014
..., 391–93.
Review: Ponce, Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and
Queer Reading, 391–93.
Review: Rifkin, The Erotics of Sovereignty: Queer Native Writing in the
Era of Self-Determination, 391–93.
McHugh, Susan. Review: Boggs, Animalia Americana: Animal Representa-
tions...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 397–413.
Published: 01 June 2023
... Atanasoski Neda , and Vora Kalindi . 2019 . Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . Klein Ezra . 2021 . “ The Author Behind ’Arrival’ Doesn’t Fear AI: ’Look at How We Treat Animals.’ ” Ezra Klein Show (podcast...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 199–213.
Published: 01 March 2002
... Almanacs featured more than Davy Crock-
ett’s exploits. Crockett was also the narrator of tall tales about backwoods
women, and this volume includes 122 of these stories, which recount battles
with animals, jokes, courting experiences, encounters with religion, and other
adventures. Michael Lofaro’s...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 457–484.
Published: 01 September 2020
... at this surprisingly late date on account of the biopolitical nature of its use: heredity was deployed to trace difference across populations of animals, plants, and humans over time in Europe and colonies in the Americas, Asia, and Africa, rather than similarity within families. The temporal scale of heredity...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 497–523.
Published: 01 September 2021
...) on the contradictions of the human/animal divide revealed by swine flu: “while epidemiologists and public health officials continue to publicize the ‘pathological state of hybridity’ that can result from some kinds of human-animal intimacy, genetic engineers are now actively trying to erase the species boundaries...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 513–541.
Published: 01 September 2020
... . Animal Capital: Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . Snorton C. Riley . 2014 . Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . Sontag Susan . 1990 . Illness as Metaphor and AIDS...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 869–892.
Published: 01 December 2015
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Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity by Stephen G. Yao,
627–29.
Chia, Christina. Review: The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-Era US
Literature and Culture by Michael Lundblad; Animal Stories: Narrating
across Species Lines by Susan McHugh, 836–38.
Colatrella...
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