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Epilogue
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 649–652.
Published: 01 September 2019
... Cedrick Tamasala, How My Grandfather Survived , 2015, installation view, Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise , SculptureCenter, New York, 2017. Chocolate. 15 by 8.3 by 9.4 inches (38 by 21 by 24 cm). Courtesy the Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise; Galerie Fons...
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Figure 1 Cedrick Tamasala, How My Grandfather Survived , 2015, installation view, Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise , SculptureCenter, New York, 2017. Chocolate. 15 by 8.3 by 9.4 inches (38 by 21 by 24 cm). Courtesy the Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise
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The White African American Body: A Cultural and Literary Exploration; Passing and the Rise of the African American Novel
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American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 888–890.
Published: 01 December 2003
... into
the cool and delicious chocolate-and-vanilla swirl of biracialism. Recent work
in this celebratory vein includes Maria P. P. Root’s Love’s Revolution: Inter-
racial Marriage (2001), Monika Kaup and Debra J. Rosenthal’s Mixing Race...
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A World of Difference: Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren and the Protocols of Racial Reading
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 251–278.
Published: 01 June 2011
... a passing mention of the nearly
chocolate brown hue of his face–
And I did a strange double take.
The hero of this book, who for 200 pages now had been telling me of
his daring exploits and intimate fears, was not the blue-eyed, blond
hero . . . . He was not Caucasian at all—indeed...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 193–196.
Published: 01 March 2009
....
Nevertheless, those in the lesbian and gay history camp should send
Thomas Foster a box of chocolates. His anthology, Long before Stonewall, col-
lects fourteen essays (the majority of which are original to the volume) that
provide a judicious and thorough survey of current issues and topics...
View articletitled, Long before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America; Gay Artists in Modern American Culture: An Imagined Conspiracy; Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History; Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 196–198.
Published: 01 March 2009
... debatable claims than to have methodological dis-
agreement yield a tacit refusal to debate.
Nevertheless, those in the lesbian and gay history camp should send
Thomas Foster a box of chocolates. His anthology, Long before Stonewall, col-
lects fourteen essays (the majority of which...
View articletitled, Formalism, Experience, and the Making of American Literature in the Nineteenth Century; One True Theory and the Quest for an American Aesthetic; A Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America
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for article titled, Formalism, Experience, and the Making of American Literature in the Nineteenth Century; One True Theory and the Quest for an American Aesthetic; A Republic in Time: Temporality and Social Imagination in Nineteenth-Century America
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 199–200.
Published: 01 March 2009
... agreement yield debatable claims than to have methodological dis-
agreement yield a tacit refusal to debate.
Nevertheless, those in the lesbian and gay history camp should send
Thomas Foster a box of chocolates. His anthology, Long before Stonewall, col-
lects fourteen essays (the majority...
View articletitled, The Colored Cartoon: Black Representation in American Animated Short Films, 1907–1954; What Have They Built You to Do? The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America; Politics, Desire, and the Hollywood Novel
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for article titled, The Colored Cartoon: Black Representation in American Animated Short Films, 1907–1954; What Have They Built You to Do? The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America; Politics, Desire, and the Hollywood Novel
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Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life, and the Turning World; Counter-revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945–1960
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 201–203.
Published: 01 March 2009
...
Thomas Foster a box of chocolates. His anthology, Long before Stonewall, col-
lects fourteen essays (the majority of which are original to the volume) that
provide a judicious and thorough survey of current issues and topics in les-
bian and gay American history. Organized chronologically into four...
View articletitled, Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life, and the Turning World; Counter-revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945–1960
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for article titled, Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life, and the Turning World; Counter-revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945–1960
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Breaking the Silence: Toward a Black Male Feminist Criticism; Our Living Manhood: Literature, Black Power, and Masculine Ideology; Black Masculinity and the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 203–205.
Published: 01 March 2009
... claims than to have methodological dis-
agreement yield a tacit refusal to debate.
Nevertheless, those in the lesbian and gay history camp should send
Thomas Foster a box of chocolates. His anthology, Long before Stonewall, col-
lects fourteen essays (the majority of which are original...
View articletitled, Breaking the Silence: Toward a Black Male Feminist Criticism; Our Living Manhood: Literature, Black Power, and Masculine Ideology; Black Masculinity and the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta
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for article titled, Breaking the Silence: Toward a Black Male Feminist Criticism; Our Living Manhood: Literature, Black Power, and Masculine Ideology; Black Masculinity and the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 206–209.
Published: 01 March 2009
....
Nevertheless, those in the lesbian and gay history camp should send
Thomas Foster a box of chocolates. His anthology, Long before Stonewall, col-
lects fourteen essays (the majority of which are original to the volume) that
provide a judicious and thorough survey of current issues and topics...
View articletitled, National Melancholy: Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature; Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America; Mourning Modernity: Literary Modernism and the Injuries of American Capitalism; Kindred Specters: Death, Mourning, and American Affinity
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for article titled, National Melancholy: Mourning and Opportunity in Classic American Literature; Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America; Mourning Modernity: Literary Modernism and the Injuries of American Capitalism; Kindred Specters: Death, Mourning, and American Affinity
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Flooded: The Excesses of Geography, Gender, and Capitalism in Faulkner's If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem
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American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 811–835.
Published: 01 December 2001
... from the levee on which he stood, further
than he could see—a slowly and heavily roiling chocolate-frothy ex-
panse broken only by a thin line a mile away as fragile in appearance
as a single hair, which after a moment he recognized. It’s another
levee, he thought quietly. That’s what we...
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Naturalist Smellscapes and Environmental Justice
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 787–814.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Francisco’s varied—but generally unhealthy—smellscapes. In a degenerative process that allegorizes Kant’s hierarchy of the senses, Vandover’s ambitions and independent will are gradually eroded by the lower senses as he overindulges in chocolates in the bathtub, reads sensationalistic novels, and inhales...
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Speculative Fictions of Slavery
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American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 779–805.
Published: 01 December 2010
.... During her travels to the antebellum period,
Dana witnesses firsthand the violence of miscegenation, a knowledge
that comes back to haunt her own interracial marriage to a white man.
Through many small details—such as a coworker’s taunting reference
to Dana and Kevin as “‘chocolate and vanilla...
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Houses of Contention: Tar Baby and Essence
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 613–641.
Published: 01 September 2018
... . Breiter Toni . 1979 . “ Battered Women: When Violence Is Linked with Love .” Essence , June , 74 – 75 , 121 , 123 – 24 , 126 , 128 – 29 . Carruth Allison . 2009 . “ ‘The Chocolate Eater’: Food Traffic and Environmental Justice in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby .” Modern Fiction Studies...
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The Normative Broken: Melinda Gebbie, Feminist Comix, and Child Sexuality Temporalities
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 347–375.
Published: 01 June 2018
... nose. It would be an easy map if that were all; but there is also first day at school, religion, fathers, the round pond, needlework, murderers, hangings, verbs that take the dative, chocolate pudding day, getting into braces, say ninety-nine, three-pence for pulling out your tooth yourself, and so...
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“Out of Joint”: Passing, Haunting, and the Time of Slavery in Hagar's Daughter
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American Literature (2007) 79 (2): 335–361.
Published: 01 June 2007
.... John was eager for his master to leave Washington and return
to Massachusetts and the family home.
“‘Deed,” he argued to himself, “this Washington’s no city for me.
They’s nuthin’ human about the South for chocolate complected
gents like me, no matter how you fix it. The pint...
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The Technê Whim: Lin Yutang and the Invention of the Chinese Typewriter
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 389–419.
Published: 01 June 2010
... day in America
was an electric orange squeezer at a lunch counter. Americans
squeeze oranges by machines, mix chocolate drinks by machines,
shovel earth by machines, haul cargo by machines, sweep snow by
machines. He went all the way to Pennsylvania Station to see...
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Puritan Realism: The Wide, Wide World and Robinson Crusoe
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American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 783–811.
Published: 01 December 2003
... snowstorms and summer brooks, games like The Fox
and Goose, even the way a spoon’s shape appears in the foam of a
pot of hot chocolate—all help Warner represent the rhythms and par-
ticularities of this region. Warner focuses...
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Resisting the Cultural “Steamroller”: Susan Wheeler's Source Codes
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American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 143–175.
Published: 01 March 2007
...
on the western plains, usually considered flat but here registered in
richly varied textures—
The grid, west of Lincoln, Nebraska, could be
Agnes Martin’s: all purplish white,
marked with hatching, Richart chocolates in
a box—some squares ribbed, some chenille,
checks close-cropped like a flat...
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Extraordinary Measures: Afrocentric Modernism and Twentieth-Century American Poetry
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 177–179.
Published: 01 March 2002
... Azuela’s Los de
abajo. Others—like those in Laura Esquivel’s Como aqua para chocolate, Jane
Candia Coleman’s I, Pearl Heart, George Cosmatos’s film Tombstone, and
Charles Haid’s Turner Network Television production Buffalo Soldiers—fea-
ture characters who prevail through suffering and confrontation...
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