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How Literature Understands Poverty: A Genealogy of the Kitchen Table

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Kimberly Chantal Welch
American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 585–594.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10084596
Published: 01 September 2022
...Kimberly Chantal Welch [email protected] Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University . By Matt Brim . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2020 . xi, 247 pp. Cloth, $99.95 ; paper, $26.95 ; e-book available. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity during This Crisis...
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Brief Mention

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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 421–427.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2886343
Published: 01 June 2015
... and writing. Turning from poststructuralist accounts of language to research in literacy by Walter Ong, Jack Goody, and Eric Havelock, this work will be of interest to scholars across multiple disciplines. James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination. By Matt Brim. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Mich- igan Press...
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Thick and Dazzling Darkness: Religious Poetry in a Secular Age The Art of Confession: The Performance of Self from Robert Lowell to Reality TV

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Mark Scroggins
American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 180–183.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8056693
Published: 01 March 2020
... and has thought repeatedly. This is a poet’s book of criticism, brimming less with orderly theoretical arguments than with flashes of exciting insight. The word confession has largely lost its meaning of a “religious body or church.” And while confession is a Roman Catholic sacrament, religious...
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Dead Letters Sent: Queer Literary Transmission Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility Circulating Queerness: Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility

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Benjamin Bateman
American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 898–901.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7917452
Published: 01 December 2019
... but rather self-shattering release from the identitarian constraints of “bounded life” (138). If Cather recollects her earlier life only as “a bundle of enthusiasms and physical sensations” (154), it is because she was always brimming with (now old) futures and becoming imprinted by circulating queer...
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Circum-Atlantic Superabundance: Milk as World-Making in Alice Randall and Kara Walker

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Patricia Yaeger
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 769–798.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-051
Published: 01 December 2006
... was in fact a scooped-out cranium, with a dried scalp cling- ingtoitsunderside,andthetrailinghairJeannotstoodupcere- moniously, holding the brimming skull out from himself like a chal- iceHowsweet—the blood of the white people He raised the skull to his lips and drank, blood running from...
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Information Warfare and Slow Media: Loyalism and the Lesson of Revolutionary Failure

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Russ Castronovo
American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 821–849.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4257871
Published: 01 December 2017
... practiced a discourse whose very essence was sluggishness and suspension. When Quaker Brim in Americans Roused calls for “calm debate,” he explicitly ties subdued passions to textual features, saying that “pithy marginal notes” should accompany their barroom “discourse” (Sewall 1775 , 8). 19 Steeped...
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The Marriage Trap in the Free-Love Novel and Queer Critique

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Holly Jackson
American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 681–708.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3329554
Published: 01 December 2015
... would brim with lemon soda, animals like the “antilion” would roam the earth, docile and willing to carry human passengers comfort- ably over long distances, and people would be seven feet tall and amphibious, sporting long tails (Beecher 1986, 340). At the core of his philosophy were...
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Down on All Fours: Atavistic Perversions and the Science of Desire from Frank Norris to Djuna Barnes

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Dana Seitler
American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 525–562.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-3-525
Published: 01 September 2001
... room, strewn with revealing bitsofmedicaleffluviumeachobjectbattlingitsowncompres- sion microcosmically aligns with Barnes’s image of modernity (N, 79). The confused and layered characterization of the doctor’s sexual proclivities and appearances, like the clutter of his room ‘‘brimming...
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Oriental Shadows: The Presence of the East in Early American Literature American Orient: Imagining the East from the Colonial Era Through the Twentieth Century American Arabesque: Arabs, Islam, and the Nineteenth-Century Imaginary

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Timothy Marr
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 185–188.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1959589
Published: 01 March 2013
... and the upper Midwest, Knott’s Imagining the Forest is comparatively much more detailed in its readings of a single landscape. Moreover, as a fairly traditional literary his- tory, Knott’s study positively brims with lengthy sections devoted to under- standing how certain representations came about...
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This Ecstatic Nation: The American Landscape and the Aesthetics of Patriotism Imagining the Forest: Narratives of Michigan and the Upper Midwest

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Nicolas S. Witschi
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 188–190.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1959598
Published: 01 March 2013
... brims with lengthy sections devoted to under- standing how certain representations came about and continue to function: “The arc of the book’s narrative takes the reader from Anishnabeg under- standings of the forest . . . and the formative struggles of early European set- tlers to make space...
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Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896–1937 the Trouble with Sauling Around: Conversion in Ethnic American Autobiography, 1965–2002 the Ethics of Community: Nancy, Derrida, Morrison, and Menendez

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Sarah Schiff
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 190–192.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1959607
Published: 01 March 2013
... and the upper Midwest, Knott’s Imagining the Forest is comparatively much more detailed in its readings of a single landscape. Moreover, as a fairly traditional literary his- tory, Knott’s study positively brims with lengthy sections devoted to under- standing how certain representations came about...
View articletitled, Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896–1937 the Trouble with Sauling Around: Conversion in Ethnic American Autobiography, 1965–2002 the Ethics of Community: Nancy, Derrida, Morrison, and Menendez View PDF for article titled, Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896–1937 the Trouble with Sauling Around: Conversion in Ethnic American Autobiography, 1965–2002 the Ethics of Community: Nancy, Derrida, Morrison, and Menendez
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Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature

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Allison S. Curseen
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 193–195.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1959616
Published: 01 March 2013
... brims with lengthy sections devoted to under- standing how certain representations came about and continue to function: “The arc of the book’s narrative takes the reader from Anishnabeg under- standings of the forest . . . and the formative struggles of early European set- tlers to make space...
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Sites Unseen: Architecture, Race, and American Literature Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries

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Magdalena J. Zaborowska
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 195–197.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1959643
Published: 01 March 2013
... brims with lengthy sections devoted to under- standing how certain representations came about and continue to function: “The arc of the book’s narrative takes the reader from Anishnabeg under- standings of the forest . . . and the formative struggles of early European set- tlers to make space...
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Material Culture and Jewish Thought in America Identity Papers: Contemporary Narratives of American Jewishness

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Dean Franco
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 197–199.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1959634
Published: 01 March 2013
... brims with lengthy sections devoted to under- standing how certain representations came about and continue to function: “The arc of the book’s narrative takes the reader from Anishnabeg under- standings of the forest . . . and the formative struggles of early European set- tlers to make space...
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Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes Do the Gods Wear Capes? Spirituality, Fantasy, and Superheroes Race in American Science Fiction

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Ramzi Fawaz
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 199–202.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1959652
Published: 01 March 2013
..., as a fairly traditional literary his- tory, Knott’s study positively brims with lengthy sections devoted to under- standing how certain representations came about and continue to function: “The arc of the book’s narrative takes the reader from Anishnabeg under- standings of the forest...
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The Oriental Obscene: Violence and Racial Fantasies in the Vietnam Era Welcome to the Suck: Narrating the American Soldier's Experience in Iraq

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Kathleen McClancy
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 202–204.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1959661
Published: 01 March 2013
... brims with lengthy sections devoted to under- standing how certain representations came about and continue to function: “The arc of the book’s narrative takes the reader from Anishnabeg under- standings of the forest . . . and the formative struggles of early European set- tlers to make space...
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Relative Strangers: Contracting Kinship in the Queer Ecology Classroom

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Sarah Ensor
American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 279–304.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3861517
Published: 01 June 2017
... the subtly spatial logic of reparative reading. Pedagogical modes of kinship thus come to resemble the “plethora of only loosely related weak theories,” brimming with “tenderness, wit, inventive reading, obiter dicta, and writerly panache,” that, in Sedgwick’s ( 2003 , 136, my emphasis) account, are “invited...
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Getting the Picture: American Corporate Advertising and the Rise of a Cosmopolitan Visual Culture in The Ambassadors

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June Hee Chung
American Literature (2007) 79 (2): 307–333.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-003
Published: 01 June 2007
..., deportment, and gestures—and his facility with a variety of lan- guages. Strether especially notes how this man enhances his physical presence with his dress. He is “rather stout and importantly short, in a hat with a wonderful wide curl to its brim and a frock coat buttoned with an effect...
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Gender and Morality in Anglo-American Culture, 1650-1800; Democracy, Revolution, and Monarchism in Early American Literature

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Joanne van der Woude
American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 603–605.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-3-603
Published: 01 September 2004
... supporters, becomes a figure finely register- ing the social idiosyncrasies of nascent managerial capitalism by laying bare ‘‘the political and commercial significance of manners in which ‘‘the tipping of a hat brim might betray an entire system of power’’ (17). Following the trail of represented manners...
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The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women's Literature in America, 1820-1860; The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the Civil War through World War II

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Monique Allewaert
American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 605–607.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-3-605
Published: 01 September 2004
... idiosyncrasies of nascent managerial capitalism by laying bare ‘‘the political and commercial significance of manners in which ‘‘the tipping of a hat brim might betray an entire system of power’’ (17). Following the trail of represented manners to the pages of the Crisis and the work of its then literary...
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