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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 839–854.
Published: 01 December 2016
... of Rights Contract Governing the Author of Annlee .” In No Ghost Just a Shell , edited by Huyghe Pierre and Parreno Philippe , 303 . Eindhoven, NL : Van Abbemuseum . While Chang-rae Lee’s novel illustrates in part the interrelations between biopower, space, and race, how might we see...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 457–484.
Published: 01 September 2020
... of the gradual consolidation of biopower across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The orphan trope, I suggest based on a broad survey of the genre, figures as a key aesthetic technology of sentimental biopolitics. I pay particular attention to how the novels employ the orphan as a technology of settler...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 79–105.
Published: 01 March 2015
... at the intersection of storytell-
ing and biopower. PRISM is a digital outgrowth of this narrative logic,
which, as Morrison suggests, does not originate from September 2001
but rather informs much if not all of American history.
Referring to the Korean War as a record that had become scabbed
over with time...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 369–372.
Published: 01 June 2020
... Schuller’s compelling case for the centrality of the biopolitics of feeling to the long nineteenth century. Sentimentalism for her is not simply a literary mode but a “fundamental mechanism of biopower” (2), “a technology to circulate and regulate feeling throughout a milieu, a political praxis...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 342–343.
Published: 01 June 2021
... for American literary criticism. At once central to the disciplining of people and populations and entirely irreducible to a single being or body, sensation is a useful heuristic for clearing conceptual space for the human subject, denatured yet still so crucial to the operation of biopower...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 540–541.
Published: 01 September 2021
... for American literary criticism. At once central to the disciplining of people and populations and entirely irreducible to a single being or body, sensation is a useful heuristic for clearing conceptual space for the human subject, denatured yet still so crucial to the operation of biopower...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 163–165.
Published: 01 March 2021
... to the operation of biopower and the asymmetrical effects thereof (across race, gender, class, ability, and species). This issue, then, is an occasion to sketch out the kind of literary histories that come to the fore when we take sensation, in all its diffuse materiality, as an elemental switch point between...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 329–332.
Published: 01 June 2021
... to “ethical” or “exploitative” (e.g. 25, 74) use, is not far removed from Lora Romero’s argument about sentimental biopower decades ago. Greater engagement with related studies (e.g., Kyla Schuller’s careful account of sentimentalism as a mechanism of biopower) would enhance this imaginative study, throwing...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 666–668.
Published: 01 September 2017
... the plantation and its reiterations as a geographical space, site, or island of biopower; as a “camp” or state of exception; and as a crossroads or border zone delimiting binaries between death/life, slave/free, nonhuman/human, labor/leisure, production/consumption, and bare life/political life. Papers might...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 874–876.
Published: 01 December 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 (2019) 91 (3): 447–457.
Published: 01 September 2019
..., colonialism, and slavery. Foucault’s biopower and Agamben’s state of exception helped shift the conception of modern political sovereignty away from the belief in a democratic community ordered by rational subjects and toward a view of the state as defined by its power to organize and regulate populations...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 209–212.
Published: 01 March 2017
... of the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries to the neoliberal present. We imagine 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...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 641–644.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of freedom” (138). Finally, we come to Amber Jamilla Musser’s Sensational Flesh , a work interested less in Foucault’s theorization of biopower than in his call for new technologies of the self and in more nuanced understandings of how power is felt in the body. Like Weheliye, Musser begins...
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American Literature (2025) 97 (1): 93–120.
Published: 01 March 2025
... Perkins Gilman biopower In early fall of 1888, convinced that her personal and professional development was incompatible with marriage to her husband, Charlotte Perkins Gilman traveled across the country to resettle in Pasadena, California, with her young daughter, Katharine, and her best friend...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 660–664.
Published: 01 September 2016
... 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 the plantation as a form, logic...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (3): 411–441.
Published: 01 September 2024
... was a key subject of “impressibility” as a biopolitical discourse in the nineteenth century. Schuller ( 2018 : 3) shows how “biopower materialized through the deployment of a vast and varied discourse that determined the vitality or unresponsiveness of a living body, and therefore its political claims...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 439–445.
Published: 01 June 2016
... to the postslavery, postcolonial periods of the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries to the neoliberal present. We imagine 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...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 681–688.
Published: 01 September 2012
... “gothic sci-
ence fiction” in order to understand the ways in which late twentieth-century
and early twenty-first-century imaginaries engage with the “dramatic socio-
economic changes” of late capitalism. Essays address concerns ranging from
biopower and technology to the limits of humankind...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 769–798.
Published: 01 December 2006
... leap toward a heat
return randomly fixed to the museum wall, while Walker breaks the
boundaries of prudent representation by insisting on the proliferation
of black women’s milk as stolen biopower.
We witness a similar obsession with breast milk in Alice Randall’s
The Wind Done Gone—a novel...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 497–523.
Published: 01 September 2021
... with contemporary racial discourse, the societal mania for bodily purity—to be “C-free”—can be read as a nefarious allegory of the quest for postracial notions of healthiness, ones that disregard how biopower has always utilized infrastructures of public health to split “healthy” from “unhealthy” populations...
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