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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 (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...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 215–217.
Published: 01 March 2011
...-
graphical texts” (6).
Elrod argues that Marrant’s autobiography, in particular, “anticipates an
argumentative stance and rhetorical authority similar to those of writers iden-
tified with border theory” (39). Marrant, although African American, focused
his ministry on Creek, Choctaw...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 169–171.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Antonio Barrenechea Whiteness on the Border: Mapping the U.S. Racial Imagination in Brown and White . By Lee Bebout . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2016 . xx, 267 pp. Cloth, $89.00 ; paper, $26.00 . The Poetry of the Americas: From Good Neighbors to Countercultures...
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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 (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 (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...
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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...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 372–376.
Published: 01 June 2020
... Protestantism’s bogeyman. Farrell O’Gorman’s Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination bolsters this work by noting Catholicism’s recurrence in the gothic imaginings of J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Herman Melville, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy...
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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...
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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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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 (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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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 785–813.
Published: 01 December 2018
... affective tactics help identify “rogues” to be eradicated—either colonial rogues, a “rogue procedure,” or a “rogue state”—hardening the border-focused feelings of disgust into hegemonic control. The essay concludes by taking a cue from the Puritans about embracing the inevitability of encountering...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 361–389.
Published: 01 June 2016
.... This essay elucidates the genre’s contemporary contours in the work of US Latin@ writers, including Héctor Tobar, Sonia Nazario, Daniel Alarcón, and Daniel Hernandez, whose lives and writings traverse multiple American borders as they cover issues like undocumented migration, narcopolitics, and cultural...
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