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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 641–644.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Marcia Klotz; Lee Medovoi The Insistence of the Material . By Breu Christopher . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2014 . x, 264 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper, $25.00 ; e-book available. Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 369–372.
Published: 01 June 2020
... . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . 2016 . xi, 284 pp. Paper, $ 32.95 . The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century . By Kyla Schuller . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2018 . xi, 282 pp. Cloth, $ 94.95 ; paper, $ 25.95 ; e-book, $ 25.95...
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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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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 457–484.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Kyla Schuller Abstract This article explores the enabling intimacy between sentimentalism and biopolitics by turning to a less-than-obvious and yet characteristic example of the sentimental mode: the ubiquitous orphan tale of the mid- to late nineteenth century. It argues that individual orphan...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 666–668.
Published: 01 September 2017
... to the necropolitics and biopolitics of plantation slavery. We ask, what are the links between Western humanism and racialization in the context of the conditions and legacies of plantation slavery? Essays might consider (non)human modes of being and critique orders of knowledge and value from any place within...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 874–876.
Published: 01 December 2016
... to the necropolitics and biopolitics of plantation slavery. We ask, what are the links between Western humanism and racialization in the context of the conditions and legacies of plantation slavery? Essays might consider (non)human modes of being and critique orders of knowledge and value from any place within...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 209–212.
Published: 01 March 2017
... 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 for analyzing state violence and inequality as constituent aspects of democratic...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 839–854.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Susette Min Cities of Others: Reimagining Urban Spaces in Asian American Literature . By Zhou Xiaojing . Seattle : Univ. of Washington Press . 2014 . x, 334 pp. Cloth , $90.00 ; paper, $30.00 . The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 660–664.
Published: 01 September 2016
.... This reconsideration of the plantation form heeds recent calls to reconceptualize notions of the human 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...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 879–881.
Published: 01 December 2018
...” and structure fantasies and fears of environmental futurity (5). The most exciting of many exciting insights in The Child to Come is Sheldon’s concept of “somatic capitalism,” which updates both biopolitics and reproductive futurism for the material conditions and materialist imaginaries of contemporary...
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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 (2024) 96 (3): 411–441.
Published: 01 September 2024
... in particular were increasingly brought into the home even as they were also increasingly racialized in larger discourse. This article focuses on three feline autobiographies from this period, arguing that they present the racialized animal as a site of biopolitical control that ultimately resides in the hands...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 435–437.
Published: 01 June 2019
... . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 From the rise of the novel to the outpouring of lyric self-expression, claims about literature’s promotion of a distinctly modern identity known as “the individual” have settled into truths. The three books under review here turn to biopolitics...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 447–457.
Published: 01 September 2019
... we have inherited and continue to be structured by the plantation form. The essays here rethink the biopolitics of plantation slavery and its legacies to interrogate the plantation as a form, logic, and technology by which inequalities of power, personhood, and value are realized. They consider...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 79–105.
Published: 01 March 2015
... ), Philip Roth in Indignation ( 2008 ), Chang-rae Lee in The Surrendered ( 2010 ), and Toni Morrison in Home ( 2012 ). In considering the literary afterlife of the Korean War, I begin with an analysis of the biopolitical logic of defense that arose after World War II during a time of American global...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 513–541.
Published: 01 September 2020
... a neutralization of the immunological fetishism of the postwar period. Rather, the loss of immunity precipitated a biopolitical melancholia. Having lost access to its privileged topos—the immune system itself—immunological governance in turn proximately cathected the object responsible for its trauma, namely, HIV...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (2): 301–329.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Stephen Knadler Abstract “Neurodiverse Afro-Fabulations” focuses on the neglected cognitive biopolitics in post-Reconstruction debates over African American progress and full democratic citizenship, in order to trace an unmarked African American neurodiverse disability history, or the antiableist...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 163–185.
Published: 01 June 2024
... subverts the biopolitical logic of legitimacy that traps many patients who are Black, disabled, or both today. What emerges from holding figuration with literalization subtly shifts the illnesses we know and the conditions by which we know them. Harriet Jacobs writes of a hurting heart. There are pangs...
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American Literature 11597526.
Published: 16 December 2024
... contestation of S. Weir Mitchell’s rest cure with Mitchell’s writings, as well as the archival records of the WRTA’s innovative rest tour, reveals the roots of white women’s self-care practices and their biopolitical investments. We also gain insight into how queer communities have long leveraged discourses...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 329–332.
Published: 01 June 2021
... seem equally fluid; chapter 5, where sympathy is a vehicle of black women’s enforced carework and emotional labor, interprets sympathy biopolitically; while in chapters 1 and 4, sympathy encompasses Indigenous ideas of animism and ecokinship. The book’s larger argument, that sympathy could be put...
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