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Racial Abstraction and Species Difference: Anthropomorphic Animals in “Multicultural” Children’s Literature

Leslie Bow
American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 323–356.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7529167
Published: 01 June 2019
... children acquire and unlearn biases, the work engages two arenas: books that imagine the adoptive family as cross-species alliance and those that depict biodiversity as a visual metaphor for multiculturalism. In looking at the adult’s ventriloquism of imaginary figures for the imagined child, the essay...
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Fallen Forests: Emotion, Embodiment, and Ethics in American Women’s Environmental Writing, 1781–1924 The Ecology of Modernism: American Environments and Avant-Garde Poetics

Margaret Konkol
American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 634–636.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4160942
Published: 01 September 2017
... toxicity, now unleashed, is a hyperobject (a term borrowed from Timothy Morton) made from the relationship between “nature and capital, landscape and governmentality . . . dramatized in the confrontation between contamination and biodiversity” (139). In other words, pollution is a totalizing...
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Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species Hope at Sea: Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature

Molly Wallace
American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 876–878.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7208647
Published: 01 December 2018
... environmental and animal rights rhetoric to legislation on endangered species and biodiversity. Her goal, as she describes it, is “to understand how endangered species and extinctions mean—that is, to go beyond understanding what they mean ecologically toward understanding how they mean culturally” (237...
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How Do We See COVID-19? Visual Iconographies of Racial Contagion

Kirsten Ostherr
American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 707–722.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8780923
Published: 01 December 2020
... with malevolence and links the virus to the geographic site of discovery, often a tropical environment where rich biodiversity collides with human impingement on habitats to create ideal conditions for zoonotic diseases to emerge (Jones et al. 2008 ). Through these linkages, the sinister pathogen is associated...
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Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing

Farah Jasmine Griffin
American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 183–185.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-183
Published: 01 March 2000
.... The range of critical approaches here too shows that the editors endorse the first of Howarth’s ‘‘three pieces of medicinal advice ‘‘the health of environmental criticism liesinvarietytextual biodiversity (7...
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The Transformation of Authorship in America

Ormond Seavey
American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 185–186.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-185
Published: 01 March 2000
.... The range of critical approaches here too shows that the editors endorse the first of Howarth’s ‘‘three pieces of medicinal advice ‘‘the health of environmental criticism liesinvarietytextual biodiversity (7...
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Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson: Joseph Denny and “The Port Folio,” 1801-1812

Jennifer Kennedy
American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 186–187.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-186
Published: 01 March 2000
.... The range of critical approaches here too shows that the editors endorse the first of Howarth’s ‘‘three pieces of medicinal advice ‘‘the health of environmental criticism liesinvarietytextual biodiversity (7...
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Emily Dickinson and Her Contemporaries: Women's Verse in America,1820-1885

Suzanne H. Juhasz
American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 187–188.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-187
Published: 01 March 2000
.... The range of critical approaches here too shows that the editors endorse the first of Howarth’s ‘‘three pieces of medicinal advice ‘‘the health of environmental criticism liesinvarietytextual biodiversity (7...
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Behind the Burnt Cork Mask: Early Blackface Minstrelsy and Antebellum American Popular Culture

Jennifer Hildebrand
American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 188–189.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-188
Published: 01 March 2000
.... The range of critical approaches here too shows that the editors endorse the first of Howarth’s ‘‘three pieces of medicinal advice ‘‘the health of environmental criticism liesinvarietytextual biodiversity (7...
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Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America

Eva Cherniavsky
American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 189–190.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-189
Published: 01 March 2000
.... The range of critical approaches here too shows that the editors endorse the first of Howarth’s ‘‘three pieces of medicinal advice ‘‘the health of environmental criticism liesinvarietytextual biodiversity (7...
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Nat Turner before the Bar of Judgment: Fictional Treatments of the Southampton Slave Insurrection

Sharon P. Holland
American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 191–192.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-191
Published: 01 March 2000
.... The range of critical approaches here too shows that the editors endorse the first of Howarth’s ‘‘three pieces of medicinal advice ‘‘the health of environmental criticism liesinvarietytextual biodiversity (7...
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A Voice of Thunder: A Black Soldier's Civil War

Matthew Conner
American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 192–193.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-192
Published: 01 March 2000
.... The range of critical approaches here too shows that the editors endorse the first of Howarth’s ‘‘three pieces of medicinal advice ‘‘the health of environmental criticism liesinvarietytextual biodiversity (7...
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The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman: The Journalism, Volume I:1834-1846

Christopher Beach
American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 193–194.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-193
Published: 01 March 2000
.... The range of critical approaches here too shows that the editors endorse the first of Howarth’s ‘‘three pieces of medicinal advice ‘‘the health of environmental criticism liesinvarietytextual biodiversity (7...
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A Whitman Chronology; Walt Whitman: The Measure of His Song

Vivian R. Pollak
American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 194–196.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-194
Published: 01 March 2000
.... The range of critical approaches here too shows that the editors endorse the first of Howarth’s ‘‘three pieces of medicinal advice ‘‘the health of environmental criticism liesinvarietytextual biodiversity (7...
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Proper Mark Twain

Robert Regan
American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 196–197.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-196
Published: 01 March 2000
.... The range of critical approaches here too shows that the editors endorse the first of Howarth’s ‘‘three pieces of medicinal advice ‘‘the health of environmental criticism liesinvarietytextual biodiversity (7...
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Edith Wharton's Travel Writing: The Making of a Connoisseur

Maureen Honey
American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 197–198.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-197
Published: 01 March 2000
.... The range of critical approaches here too shows that the editors endorse the first of Howarth’s ‘‘three pieces of medicinal advice ‘‘the health of environmental criticism liesinvarietytextual biodiversity (7...
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Jack London: A Study of the Short Fiction

Eric Schocket
American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 199.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-199
Published: 01 March 2000
.... The range of critical approaches here too shows that the editors endorse the first of Howarth’s ‘‘three pieces of medicinal advice ‘‘the health of environmental criticism liesinvarietytextual biodiversity (7...
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Reading the Symptom: Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, and the Dynamics of Capitalism

Vincent Fitzpatrick
American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 200.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-200
Published: 01 March 2000
.... The range of critical approaches here too shows that the editors endorse the first of Howarth’s ‘‘three pieces of medicinal advice ‘‘the health of environmental criticism liesinvarietytextual biodiversity (7...
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Shifting the Blame: Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth-Century America

Patricia Larson Kalayjian
American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 200–201.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-200-a
Published: 01 March 2000
.... The range of critical approaches here too shows that the editors endorse the first of Howarth’s ‘‘three pieces of medicinal advice ‘‘the health of environmental criticism liesinvarietytextual biodiversity (7...
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“Winds Can Wake Up the Dead”: An Eric Walrond Reader

Donald B. Gibson
American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 202.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-202
Published: 01 March 2000
.... The range of critical approaches here too shows that the editors endorse the first of Howarth’s ‘‘three pieces of medicinal advice ‘‘the health of environmental criticism liesinvarietytextual biodiversity (7...
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