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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 583–611.
Published: 01 September 2009
... for a rising generation of Chicana activists, highlighting how the absence of young men from Mexican families laid bare the gender dynamics of family life. Véa's and Santana's novels revise familiar narratives of the Chicana/o movement, calling attention not to the way the movement was parochial and sexist...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 619–647.
Published: 01 September 2019
... satire black postmodernism bare life Scoby’s eyes reddened and he started to sniffle. He was cracking under the pressure. Watching his hands shake, I realized that sometimes the worst thing a nigger can do is perform well. Because then there is no turning back. We have no place to hide...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 874–876.
Published: 01 December 2016
... in relation to colonial plantation slavery to challenge the omission of race in much current theory of posthumanism, biopolitics, and bare life. As Alexander Weheliye and Zakiyyah Iman Jackson note, Giorgio Agamben’s state of exception and bare life and Michel Foucault’s biopolitics—arguably the predominant...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 666–668.
Published: 01 September 2017
... posthumanism transforms concepts of biopolitics and bare life to explain “how particular populations are rendered vulnerable to processes of death and devaluation over and against other populations, in ways that palimpsestically register older modalities of racialized death but also exceed them” (Grace...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 209–212.
Published: 01 March 2017
... binaries between death/life, slave/free, nonhuman/human, labor/leisure, production/consumption, bare life/political life. Papers might consider the plantation as a form, logic, and technology by which inequalities of power, personhood, and value are realized. How does the plantation form persist...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 660–664.
Published: 01 September 2016
... the plantation and its reiterations as a geographical space, site, or island of biopower; as a “camp” or state of exception; as a crossroads or border zone delimiting binaries between death/life, slave/free, nonhuman/human, labor/leisure, production/consumption, bare life/political life. Papers might consider...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 439–445.
Published: 01 June 2016
... plantation slavery to challenge the omission of race in much current theory of posthumanism, biopolitics, and bare life. As Alexander Weheliye and Zakiyyah Iman Jackson note, Giorgio Agamben’s state of exception and bare life and Michel Foucault’s biopolitics—arguably the predominant critical frameworks...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 641–644.
Published: 01 September 2016
... actualized the honeyed prophecy of another kind of freedom” (138). Habeas Viscus argues incrementally, investigating a succession of key concepts: the human, bare life, flesh, assemblage, pornotropes, and freedom. The book’s first half foregrounds a critique of European-centered biopolitical theory...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 447–457.
Published: 01 September 2019
...) of the discussion, to approach the archive aslant, and to imagine different possibilities of relation. This reconsideration of the plantation heeds recent calls to challenge the omission of race in much current theory of biopolitics and bare life. As Alexander G. Weheliye ( 2014 : 32–36) and Zakiyyah Iman...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 79–105.
Published: 01 March 2015
... on terror in this legacy. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Ha Jin Korean War war on terror biopolitics Toni Morrison References Agamben Giorgio . 1998 . Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life . Translated by Heller-Roazen Daniel . Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 573–584.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; . . . not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality” (Harding 1920 ). References Agamben Giorgio . 1998 . Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life . Translated by Heller-Roazen Daniel . Stanford, CA...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 343–356.
Published: 01 June 2020
... of liberal democracy and particularly visible in anti-Semitic movements. References Agamben Giorgio . 1998 . Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life . Translated by Heller-Roazen Daniel . Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ. Press . Agamben Giorgio . 2005 . State of Exception...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 491–521.
Published: 01 September 2019
... control that would reduce enslaved existence to something very like the “bare life” described by philosopher Giorgio Agamben ( 1998 ), with the emphatically human slave stripped of legal personhood as its homo sacer . Howard’s frank acknowledgment of Amy’s humanity while denying her legal personhood...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 247–272.
Published: 01 June 2013
... their risks. Yet Douglass undertook to construct a new account of the human in which a reformed vision of strangerhood could found a revitalized democratic culture. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 References Agamben Giorgio . 1998 . Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life . Translated...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 383–397.
Published: 01 September 2022
... present that seems to organize the experience of poverty and beyond which Salamon calls on literary theory to think is, we suggest, not only a temporal but also an ontological problem, one that has often encouraged the bare life conception of poverty that this special issue seeks to contest. 6...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 513–541.
Published: 01 September 2020
... , December 1 . www.c-span.org/video/?115912-1/world-aids-day-event . Cohen , Ed. 2009 . A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . Comaroff Jean . 2007 . “ Beyond Bare Life: AIDS, (Bio)Politics...
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American Literature 10575119.
Published: 17 March 2023
...-of-thorns star sh an example of already expanded state power, of bare life and the right to kill? The effort to map and survey results in the stylistic deployment of quite a few lists in AI in the Wild. For example, on energy ef ciency, Dauvergne summarizes: City-owned vehicles are being integrated...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 89–116.
Published: 01 March 2006
... space in which we are still living By narratively delin-
eating an instance of a biopolitical apparatus that centers entirely on
the control of bare flesh, The Street ends up presenting, in Agamben’s
words, a ‘‘zone of indistinction’’ where oppositions between life and
law, inside and outside, public...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 697–706.
Published: 01 December 2020
... attention to how an enslaved condition in which one lacked the right to choose to move or hold still is now being extended to a class of workers deemed essential. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Edgar Allan Poe Harriet Jacobs borderization necropolitics bare labor...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 439–472.
Published: 01 September 2022
... in their life” (quoted in Clayton 2015 : 54). This exchangeability of identity and image is evident in Ragged Dick , especially in its sequence of mirror scenes through which Dick’s class transformation is mapped and his “respectable,” middle-class “likeness” ratified and affirmed. I detail elsewhere how...
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