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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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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...
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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 (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 (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...
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American Literature 11557537.
Published: 09 October 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...
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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 (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 (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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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 More
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 301–325.
Published: 01 June 2012
... on the borders of the food system and compelling to contemporary ecocriticism. Ecocriticism has relied until now on traditional agrarian ideals that privilege long-term inhabitation of place as a basis for responsible citizenship. Through close readings of Wendell Berry’s stories and essays, Helena María...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 353–379.
Published: 01 June 2012
... too is our enabling kinship with it. What remains is an irresolvable fear regarding the uncertain borders between persons and environments. The essay concludes with a consideration of the implications of such a fear for ecocriticism. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Matthew A. The Nature...
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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...