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Cartographies of Desire: Captivity, Race, and Sex in the Shaping of an American Nation

Lisa M. Logan

American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 188–189.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-1-188

Published: 01 March 2001

... division and graduate) will ﬁnd The National Uncanny accessible, useful, and interesting. Its pairings of authors can stand alone to complement the primary texts of a survey course or seminar. Scott Andrews, California State University, Northridge Cartographies of Desire: Captivity, Race, and Sex...

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Postmodern Cartographies: The Geographical Imagination in Contemporary American Culture

Heather J. Hicks

American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 669–670.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-3-669

Published: 01 September 2000

..., and Foucault’s cartography of the body as text and fantasy as well as practice. Marilyn Maness Mehaﬀy, Washington, D.C. My Way, Speeches and Poems. By Charles Bernstein. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago...

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At Home in Diaspora: Black International Writing; Demonic Grounds: Black Women and The Cartographies of Struggle

Cynthia Young

American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 840–842.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-049

Published: 01 December 2007

...Cynthia Young Duke University Press 2007 At Home in Diaspora: Black International Writing . By Wendy W. Walters. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2005. xxv, 177 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $20.00. Demonic Grounds: Black Women and The Cartographies of Struggle...

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The Gothic Origins of Global Health

Sari Altschuler

American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 557–590.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4160894

Published: 01 September 2017

..., but cartography was not the principal form associated with this paradigm; it was the gothic. Turning back to the mid-nineteenth-century pandemics, this essay explores the contours of an emergent global health approach on both sides of the Atlantic. It demonstrates why the gothic was the form through which...

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American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 665–667.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-3-665

Published: 01 September 2005

... 2005 Announcements Call for Papers: Conference on Early American Cartographies A call for papers has been announced for the cross-disciplinary conference ‘‘Early American Cartographies cosponsored by the Society of Early Ameri- canists, the Newberry Library’s Center for Renaissance...

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A Storied Place: Jonathan Carver’s Travel Narrative and the Indigenous Map of the Upper Mississippi River Valley

Caroline Wigginton

American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 1–31.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8056576

Published: 01 March 2020

... of the North American Borderlands . New York : New York Univ. Press . Harkin Michael E. 2000 . “ Sacred Places, Scarred Spaces .” Wicazo Sa Review 15 , no. 1 : 49 – 70 . Harley J. B. , and Woodward David . 1987 . Preface to Cartography in Prehistoric, Ancient, and Medieval...

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The Pan American Imagination: Contested Visions of the Hemisphere in Twentieth-Century Literature The Geopoetics of Modernism The Black Pacific Narrative: Geographic Imaginings of Race and Empire between the World Wars

María del Pilar Blanco

American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 411–414.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3533422

Published: 01 June 2016

...María del Pilar Blanco To different effects, the studies by Park, Walsh, and Taketani offer original and meticulous takes on our understanding of the geopolitics of the first half of the twentieth century. They compel us to think of new cartographies, while substantiating ways in which...

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“My Whole Life I’ve Been on the Run”: Fugitivity as a Postracial Trope in Red Dead Redemption 2

Katrina Marks

American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 159–179.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9697043

Published: 01 March 2022

... theories of racializing geographies and the postracial as they inform my reading of fugitivity as a postracial trope deployed through the game’s narrative, visual, and kinesthetic landscape, and its cartography. I do not invoke fugitivity here in its fullest complexity as a theoretical term in geography...

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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 215–217.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-1-215

Published: 01 March 2002

... are especially welcome. Possible topics in- clude nationalism; trade; travel; gender; interiority; social class in the U.S., Britain, and continental Europe; cultural and historiographic cartography; sensationalism and spectacle; epistolarity, clubs, and conversation; imperial- ism and postcoloniality; genre...

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Golem: Modern Wars and Their Monsters The Tar Baby: A Global History

Sarah Juliet Lauro

American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 892–894.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7917428

Published: 01 December 2019

...), part cartography (charting the Tar Baby story’s movements and shifts), and part anatomy of a myth, a dissection of a story that, surprisingly, appears in diverse forms across the globe. Both studies exhibit an impressive depth, but they differ radically in their form. If Barzilai’s book is a root...

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A Corporate Plantation Reading Public: Labor, Literacy, and Diaspora in the Global Black South

Jarvis C. McInnis

American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 523–555.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7722116

Published: 01 September 2019

... black south as a subregion of the global south that stretches from the US South to the Caribbean and the Caribbean coast of Latin America. While scholars have referred to this hemispheric cartography as the “Plantation Americas” and “the circum-Caribbean,” I insist on the designation global black...

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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 655–659.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3650811

Published: 01 September 2016

... Country: Literary Cartography of the Great Plains . By Susan Naramore Maher. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2014. xxiv, 228 pp. $45.00. This study looks at the intersection of “sewing and telling,” analyzing how female sewers, weavers, quilters, and embroiderers use the portability of their work...

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Literatures of Exile and Return: Jack Kerouac and Quebec

Hassan Melehy

American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 589–615.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1664728

Published: 01 September 2012

..., one of the capital cities of this vagabondage as well as of, by the same token, Kerouac’s cartography of America. In the novel, San Francisco is clearly marked as the city of the Beat Generation. Accompanying Jack Waterman is a female hitchhiker who goes by the name La Grande Sauterelle...

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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 681–688.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1664845

Published: 01 September 2012

... Cartographies. Ed. Martin Brückner. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2011. xiii, 485 pp. $60.00. This collection begins with the premise that maps and mapmaking were com- mon in the Americas before the appearance of the Eurocentric term car- tography. The essays shed light...

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American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 419–428.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-78-2-419

Published: 01 June 2006

... (1991) maps a ‘‘cartography of iden- tity in exile a geography of identity that weaves the fabric of her life’s work and constructs an imaginary mestiza homeland through the space of narrative itself. 426 American Literature How Poets See the World: The Art of Description in Contemporary Poetry...

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