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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 429–430.
Published: 01 June 2001
...Blake Allmendinger By Noreen Groover Lape. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 2000. x, 224 pp. Cloth,$59.95; paper, $24.95. 2001 Book Reviews 429
West of the Border...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 185–187.
Published: 01 March 2002
... book-length studies of Western
American literature, such as Krista Comer’s Landscapes of the New West or
Noreen Groover Lape’s West of the Border: The Multicultural Literature of the
Western Frontiers.
Betsy Klimasmith, University of Massachusetts at Boston
Condensing the Cold War: ‘‘Reader’s...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 187–190.
Published: 01 March 2002
... book-length studies of Western
American literature, such as Krista Comer’s Landscapes of the New West or
Noreen Groover Lape’s West of the Border: The Multicultural Literature of the
Western Frontiers.
Betsy Klimasmith, University of Massachusetts at Boston
Condensing the Cold War: ‘‘Reader’s...
View articletitled, Mavericks on the <span class="search-highlight">Border</span>: The Early Southwest in Historical Fiction and Film; The Medicine Line: Life and Death on a North American Borderland
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 190–191.
Published: 01 March 2002
... book-length studies of Western
American literature, such as Krista Comer’s Landscapes of the New West or
Noreen Groover Lape’s West of the Border: The Multicultural Literature of the
Western Frontiers.
Betsy Klimasmith, University of Massachusetts at Boston
Condensing the Cold War: ‘‘Reader’s...
Journal Article
American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 839–841.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Richard T. Rodríguez © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Border Renaissance: The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Mexican American Literature . By John Morán González. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press. 2009. xiv, 259 pp. $50.00. Mainland Passage: The Cultural Anomaly...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Border</span> Renaissance: The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Mexican American Literature; Mainland Passage: The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 215–217.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Victor Román Mendoza © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Economic Citizens: A Narrative of Asian American Visibility. By Christine So. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press. 2007. x, 178 pp. Cloth, $49.00; paper, $26.95. Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing...
View articletitled, Economic Citizens: A Narrative of Asian American Visibility; <span class="search-highlight">Border</span> Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the United States
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 691–716.
Published: 01 December 2024
... in the novel’s narrative form—which refuses closure. The article uses the term border positionalities to describe the unresolved and un settled tension between the characters’ Indigenous and settler political identities. It contends that the incommensurability of these social and political identities makes...
View articletitled, More than “A Matter of Deciding To”: Citizenship, <span class="search-highlight">Border</span> Positionality, and Irresolution in Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman
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for article titled, More than “A Matter of Deciding To”: Citizenship, <span class="search-highlight">Border</span> Positionality, and Irresolution in Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman
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American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 644–646.
Published: 01 September 2005
... American Literature
representation: a cartoon of cross-dressing Confederate soldiers in Missouri
may, on the surface, feminize the Confederacy, but it also expresses anxi-
eties about the many borders that all American men cross as they migrate
westward.
Samuels is equally interested, however...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Border</span> Confluences: Borderland Narratives from the Mexican War to the Present; South of Our Selves: Mexico in the Poems of Williams, Kerouac, Corso,Ginsberg, Levertov, and Hayden
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for article titled, <span class="search-highlight">Border</span> Confluences: Borderland Narratives from the Mexican War to the Present; South of Our Selves: Mexico in the Poems of Williams, Kerouac, Corso,Ginsberg, Levertov, and Hayden
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 169–171.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of unity. Lee Bebout’s Whiteness on the Border recalls Daniel Cooper Alarcón’s seminal book The Aztec Palimpsest (1997). The author puts whiteness studies into conversation with border and ethnic studies, but his basic claim will surprise no one: “representations of Mexico, Mexicans, and Mexican...
View articletitled, Whiteness on the <span class="search-highlight">Border</span>: Mapping the U.S. Racial Imagination in Brown and White The Poetry of the Americas: From Good Neighbors to Countercultures Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño
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for article titled, Whiteness on the <span class="search-highlight">Border</span>: Mapping the U.S. Racial Imagination in Brown and White The Poetry of the Americas: From Good Neighbors to Countercultures Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 892–894.
Published: 01 December 2006
...Rafael Pérez-Torres Duke University Press 2006 Narratives of Greater Mexico: Essays on Chicano Literary History, Genre, and Borders . By Héctor Calderón. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press. 2004. 312 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.95. Life in Search of Readers: Reading...
View articletitled, Narratives of Greater Mexico: Essays on Chicano Literary History, Genre, and <span class="search-highlight">Borders</span>; Life in Search of Readers: Reading (in) Chicano/a Literature
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for article titled, Narratives of Greater Mexico: Essays on Chicano Literary History, Genre, and <span class="search-highlight">Borders</span>; Life in Search of Readers: Reading (in) Chicano/a Literature
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 425–427.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Kwakiutl L. Dreher © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Lost Bodies: Inhabiting the Borders of Life and Death . By Laura E. Tanner. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2006. xiii, 264 pp. Cloth, $57.50; paper, $19.95. Identifying Marks: Race, Gender, and the Marked Body...
View articletitled, Lost Bodies: Inhabiting the <span class="search-highlight">Borders</span> of Life and Death; Identifying Marks: Race, Gender, and the Marked Body in Nineteenth-Century America
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Seeing Fictions in Film: The Epistemology of Movies Dark Borders: Film Noir and American Citizenship
American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 889–891.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Sam B. Girgus Seeing Fictions in Film: The Epistemology of Movies . By Wilson George M. . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2011 . viii , 220 pp. Cloth , $84.95 ; paper , $23.95 . Dark Borders: Film Noir and American Citizenship . By Auerbach Jonathan . Durham, NC...
View articletitled, Seeing Fictions in Film: The Epistemology of Movies Dark <span class="search-highlight">Borders</span>: Film Noir and American Citizenship
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 181–209.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Gary Kafer Abstract Game media have long participated in projects of nation building by remediating historical, political, and social relations in ways that reinforce affective processes of national belonging. The genre of border games in particular is well-known for staging the discursive...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 655–656.
Published: 01 September 2000
... Antonette, East Stroudsburg University
Crossing Borders through Folklore: African American Women’s Fiction and Art.
By Alma Jean Billingslea-Brown. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 1999. xii,
146 pp. $27.50...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 714–716.
Published: 01 December 2006
... to be, as Houston Baker and Dana Nelson en-
vision it, less preoccupied with exhausted images of patriarchal white-
ness and rural idyll and more concerned with understanding the U.S.
South as ‘‘thick’’ with border-crossings of every sort: racial, gendered,
regional, transnational. Our own thinking about...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 372–376.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Kenyon Gradert The Islamic Lineage of American Literary Culture: Muslim Sources from the Revolution to Reconstruction . By Jeffrey Einboden . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2016 . xv, 216 pp. Cloth, $ 87.00 ; e-book available. Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic...
View articletitled, The Islamic Lineage of American Literary Culture: Muslim Sources from the Revolution to Reconstruction Catholicism and American <span class="search-highlight">Borders</span> in the Gothic Literary Imagination Sacraments of Memory: Catholicism and Slavery in Contemporary African American Literature The Pragmatist Turn: Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Formation of American Literature
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for article titled, The Islamic Lineage of American Literary Culture: Muslim Sources from the Revolution to Reconstruction Catholicism and American <span class="search-highlight">Borders</span> in the Gothic Literary Imagination Sacraments of Memory: Catholicism and Slavery in Contemporary African American Literature The Pragmatist Turn: Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Formation of American Literature
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Published: 01 September 2017
Figure 1 A panel from Randolph Rogers’s “Columbus Doors” (1859), bordered by Bartholomew Columbus (right) and Irving’s face (below). Image courtesy of the Architect of the US Capitol
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American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 459–486.
Published: 01 September 2023
... to constrain the biochemical flux of “intoxication” through Native bodies. Modern campaigns against “peyote worship” mounted by government agents, progressive reformers, and sensationalist press in the early twentieth century exploited scripts of revulsion and prurient fascination to target the border-crossing...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 807–834.
Published: 01 December 2010
... literary resurrection of a destroyed snake effigy mound once central to the Blood Run earthworks site, located on what is now the Iowa-South Dakota border, which she performs by citing the terrestrial form and celestial alignments of the majestic Serpent Mound extant in southern Ohio. Analysis...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 655–682.
Published: 01 December 2014
... than the Puritan state church—nevertheless excludes Indian religiosity from its Protestant borders. Yet Child still obliquely registers how even a purportedly autonomous domesticity remains caught in processes of mutual fragilization that characterize secularity. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...
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