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American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 755–782.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Hayley C. Stefan Abstract This article outlines a crip archival analysis of Karen Tei Yamashita’s creative family memoir Letters to Memory (2017) and the separate Yamashita Family Archives; the analysis revolves around the concept of disorder. The book and digital archives move the daily lived...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 331–360.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Mary Elene Wood Abstract This article begins with the discovery in a Wellcome Library war psychiatry archive of a carbon copy of one of John Steinbeck’s 1943 dispatches to the New York Tribune from the Italian front. The article examines Steinbeck’s dispatch in relation to documents in the military...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 447–475.
Published: 01 September 2016
... on our encounters with historical texts. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 nineteenth-century American literature archives philology digital textuality ngrams search Word search, both in the form of the search engine and in the “Find” features of web browsers and word...
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View articletitled, “The General Practice of the Nation”: Walt Whitman, Language, and Computerized Search in the Nineteenth-Century <span class="search-highlight">Archive</span>
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in A More “Human(e)” Society? Animal Autobiography and the Shaping of Race, Species, and Gender
> American Literature
Published: 01 September 2024
Figure 2 Band of Mercy membership card, circa 1910. Courtesy of the MSPCA Archive Collection. Photo by author
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in The Shining and the Media Conglomerate; or, How All Work and No Play Made Jack a Creative Artist in the 1970s
> American Literature
Published: 01 March 2019
Figure 9 Jack in the Warner Brothers archive
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 201–203.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Stephanie A. Smith © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Anachronism and Its Others: Sexuality, Race, Temporality. By Valerie Rohy. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2009. xvi, 178 pp. $70.00. Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 661–688.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Lauren F. Klein In recent years, scholars from across the humanities, including literary critics Stephen Best and Saidiya Hartman, have theorized about how best to account for the silences endemic to the archive of American slavery. These critics call for a shift away from what Best has described...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 217–220.
Published: 01 March 2019
... Africana would generate an interesting juxtaposition with Wright’s and Himes’s disenchantment with Spain’s alleged African-inspired primitivism and paganism. Indeed, what is absent from Rogers’s discussion is how McKay’s queer disposition shaped his perspective of Spain—a factor that Archives of Flesh...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Archives</span> of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 164–166.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Susan Hegeman Archives of Dispossession: Recovering the Testimonios of Mexican American Herederas, 1848–1960 . By Karen R. Roybal Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . 2017 . xiii, 169 pp. Cloth, $90.00 ; paper, $27.95 ; e-book, $14.49 . Indigenous Women’s Writing...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Archives</span> of Dispossession: Recovering the Testimonios of Mexican American Herederas, 1848–1960 Indigenous Women’s Writing and the Cultural Study of Law
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American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 218–219.
Published: 01 March 2001
...
operating as steady-state, closed cultural systems’’ (4).
The contributors pay special attention to how empirical data and method-
ological experimentation can reveal that colonialism’s cultural contours are
‘‘creatively invented rather than ‘discovered’ in the arid climate of the archive’’
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 809–812.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Dana D. Nelson Unconventional Politics: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and U.S. Indian Policy . By Janet Dean . Amherst : Univ. of Massachusetts Press . 2016 . xii, 255. Paper, $25.95 . Archives of Labor: Working-Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 309–341.
Published: 01 June 2020
... Sylvia . 2006 . Acequia: Water Sharing, Sanctity, and Place . Santa Fe : School for Advanced Research Press . Roybal Karen R. 2017 . Archives of Dispossession: Recovering the Testimonios of Mexican American Herederas, 1848–1960 . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press...
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in Cripping the Archive: Analyzing Archival Disorder in the Yamashita Family Archives and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Letters to Memory
> American Literature
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 1 Homepage of the Yamashita Family Archives, January 2021
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 813–814.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Jeffrey Shandler Shandler’s author statement introduces a Scalar project titled “Holocaust Survivors on Schindler’s List ; or, Reading a Digital Archive against the Grain.” Examining references to the 1993 film Schindler’s List in videotaped interviews with Holocaust survivors at the USC Shoah...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Kyle Keeler Abstract This article draws on Native American theory and archival sources, and colonial archival sources, to reframe land as an agent, partner in cultural production, and ally in resistance to colonialism. The article explains how land structures Haudenosaunee and Mohegan society...
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American Literature (2025) 97 (1): 121–153.
Published: 01 March 2025
... and African American children in acceptable modes of behavior and belief. To that end, they framed library protocols as indispensable American norms and carefully selected highlights of US history as a proudly shared legacy. But a neglected Children’s Services archive shows that some librarians were at odds...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 407–438.
Published: 01 June 2018
... comparatively little attention. By focusing on the grassroots context of DTWOF , this essay demonstrates how Bechdel’s participation in grassroots periodicals shaped her work. Through the development of new reading practices and the notion of queer comics archives, I show how queer communities influenced...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 751–781.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Gregory Laski Abstract This essay reconsiders the politics of African American literature after the Civil War by focusing on revenge as a response to the wrong of slavery. Though forgiveness dominates literary and historical scholarship, I assemble an archive of real and imagined instances...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 271–304.
Published: 01 June 2010
... such as the Liberator . In addition, the article examines the use of these works in performances, quotations, recitations, and individual acts of reading. By combining close reading with an archival history of these poems and songs, Cohen proposes that “circulation” and “genre” offer valuable categories of analysis...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 461–488.
Published: 01 September 2010
... voices of children, slaves, and other marginalized people. Duane recovers and analyzes the records of the New York African Free School in the 1810s and 1820s, an archive that features the work of the first generation of black children to inherit freedom in New York City. She argues that the scripted...
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