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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 583–610.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Phillip Barrish Robert Herrick’s novel The Web of Life (1900), a self-proclaimed work of literary realism, opens a critical window onto an urban “web” of intersecting practices, institutions, and professional formations at a moment when key dimensions of the US health-care system as we know...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (4): 629–654.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Ira Halpern Abstract The literary and cultural dimensions of the longstanding US political debate over public versus private health care have been critically underexplored. How did early twentieth-century US writers portray the business of medical care within a stratified US economy? In Robert...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 629–660.
Published: 01 December 2013
... local data current and updated: “out of time” precisely because the marks could be marked up at a later time, almost like periodical records open to revision and playback. Such techniques of inscription were serious business. Even colored pencils had to be used with care: “Be careful...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 799–807.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Rachel Adams Abstract Care is the intimate and necessary labor required to sustain those who are dependent, but it is also about acting in ways that sustain other species and the lives of strangers distant in time and space. The COVID-19 pandemic shines a spotlight on the vulnerabilities and gaps...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 93–119.
Published: 01 March 2013
... health care activists, including C. V. Roman, founding member of the National Medical Association (1895) and the first editor of the Journal of the National Medical Association , E. Elliott Rawlins, health columnist for the Amsterdam News , and Mary Fitzbutler Waring, chair of the Committee for Health...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 745–757.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Jane F. Thrailkill Abstract People over sixty-five have been singled out as a uniquely vulnerable risk group for the novel coronavirus. Yet the discourse of risk obscures (and exacerbates) socially created dangers of congregate care in the United States: poorly paid workers holding down multiple...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (2): 331–355.
Published: 01 June 2022
... divinity of maternal care. Through Jacobs’s and Long Soldier’s discussions of holy maternal care, we can recognize the interrelation of Black and Indigenous freedom struggles in a way that’s not solely defined by shared subjugation. 9 C. Riley Snorton brilliantly articulates some of the ways Linda also...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 381–408.
Published: 01 June 2012
.... It argues that Powers’s novel of eco-sickness is a rejoinder to platitudes about connection, awareness, and care that poses the question: Can ethical concern and care for human and nonhuman others take hold without connection? © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Heather Wondrous Strange: Eco...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 115–143.
Published: 01 March 2021
... premised on acts of tangible care rather than affective identification or the possession of interiority. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Black studies sentimentality fugitivity Colson Whitehead historical fiction Affect-laden approaches to history are often touted...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 123–149.
Published: 01 March 2020
... to the category of the human by crafting narratives that shuttle black being away from the animal. Rejecting both negative affiliations and shifting away from the animal, this article explores the movement toward the animal in black segregation-era literature. I argue that animals and animal care in Richard...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 281–303.
Published: 01 June 2009
... with gender difference primarily and Passing mainly with racial difference, but both are careful also to situate these differences within an explicitly acknowledged range of other differences, including those of class and sexuality. These novels depict the failed and successful communicative strategies...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 409–435.
Published: 01 June 2012
... of how we might best move toward it, no longer permitting us to understand the present and future as mutually delimiting terms. The result is a model of care that allows distance, indirection, and aloofness to persist, and that transforms the vexed concept of “enoughness” from a chastening limitation...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 243–269.
Published: 01 June 2010
... racial outsiders and mark them as separate from the religious educators who taught and cared for them. Stowe drew these strategies from James Janeway's seventeenth-century Token for Children storybooks, which evangelicals actively reprinted and adapted for use in Sunday schools in Stowe's time...
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American Literature 11597526.
Published: 16 December 2024
... contestation of S. Weir Mitchell’s rest cure with Mitchell’s writings, as well as the archival records of the WRTA’s innovative rest tour, reveals the roots of white women’s self-care practices and their biopolitical investments. We also gain insight into how queer communities have long leveraged discourses...
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Published: 01 December 2020
Figure 4 Lieutenant (junior grade) Natasha McClinton, a surgical nurse, prepares a patient for a procedure in the intensive care unit aboard the US hospital ship USNS Comfort (April 23, 2020). Source: US Navy Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Sara Eshleman More
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 337–349.
Published: 01 June 2023
... would look like if it proceeded from this distributed model of cognition, Wang might find synergy with N. Katherine Hayles’s Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious (2017). A careful reader might also consider the similarities between the form of an algorithm and the form of the recipe...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 279–304.
Published: 01 June 2017
... but also constitutes the first steps toward a politics capable of responding to its challenges. In what follows, I suggest that pedagogical relationships—precisely in their irreducible precariousness—enable significant forms of care and paradigms of affiliation amid institutional structures that often...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 737–743.
Published: 01 December 2020
..., currently affecting them. This tension has been thrown in even sharper relief in America, the land of rugged individualism. As Nancy Berlinger, et al. have written, crisis care ethics holds that in times of public health emergencies, health work shifts from a focus on individual needs to a focus...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 163–185.
Published: 01 June 2024
.... Similarly, she models no harbinger of epigenetics; the effect she describes is a somatic disorder common to bodyminds living in the same environment, at the same time. She submits that the stress that becomes impairment can be passed along in that form—as, in effect, a death sentence. Care . Just...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 305–331.
Published: 01 June 2014
... and innocence. Sentimentally posi- tioned here next to a human breast and looking wide-eyed into the camera, it appears to plead, yet without apparent consciousness of its predicament, for human kindness and care.1 No claws are seen; rather, two white, delicate, human baby–like “hands” grip the parental...