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Toward a Literature of Landed Resistance: Land’s Agency in American Literature, Law, and History

Kyle Keeler
American Literature (2024) 96 (1): 1–28.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11092045
Published: 01 March 2024
...Kyle Keeler Abstract This article draws on Native American theory and archival sources, and colonial archival sources, to reframe land as an agent, partner in cultural production, and ally in resistance to colonialism. The article explains how land structures Haudenosaunee and Mohegan society...
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Super Fly: François Makandal’s Colonial Semiotics

Monique Allewaert
American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 459–490.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7722092
Published: 01 September 2019
... signs colonial archive interpretive methods In November 2018 I visited the Musée Ogier-Fombrun in Montrouis, Haiti, with two Haitians I’d recently met in Port-au-Prince. Our guide recounted a story that incorporated the vestiges of the sugar plantation under our feet into a narrative...
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Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War Literary Indians: Aesthetics and Encounter in American Literature to 1920 Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation Modernity and Its Other: The Encounter with North American Indians in the Eighteenth Century

Kelly Wisecup
American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 585–588.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8616211
Published: 01 September 2020
...Kelly Wisecup These books continue the work of charting paths for early American studies and early Native studies by pursuing approaches to familiar and less well-known colonial archives and by showing just how deeply enmeshed in Native political, linguistic, and aesthetic structures many...
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Imperative Reading: Brothertown and Sister Fowler

Ana Schwartz
American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 595–622.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10341691
Published: 01 December 2022
..., these relations were not static but responded dynamically to material conditions. Fowler’s archival existence testifies to the dynamism of the applied theories with which Native people responded to settler colonialism. Everywhere she appears in Occom’s writings, these networks—and the conditions that tried...
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Black Feminist Geohaptics and the Broken Earth

Shouhei Tanaka
American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 569–596.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10679265
Published: 01 September 2023
... the earth’s deep-time histories are encountered and where the political ontologies of being and matter are coproduced and entangled with colonialism, race, and gender. A speculative archive of poems comprising four main elemental archives—“Dirt,” “Sky,” “Fire,” and “Ocean”—that documents the end...
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What to the American Indian Is the Fourth of July? Moving beyond Abolitionist Rhetoric in William Apess's Eulogy on King Philip

Drew Lopenzina
American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 673–699.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-041
Published: 01 December 2010
... peoples in the nineteenth century and the archival absences imposed by a settler culture determined to make Natives “vanish” from the colonial scene. When we make the attempt to regard Apess's narrative from “Native space,” weighing the loose materials of his life as he recorded them against a deeper...
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Intergenerational Testimonials and the Politics of Black Cherokee Belonging

Eve Eure
American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 671–690.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11557553
Published: 01 December 2024
... intergenerational testimonials because they record how the Shoe Boots family produced their own archive, their own print record across time and for future generations, as one strategy to build a livable world within and on Cherokee lands. As intergenerational testimonials, they transmit histories of unfinished...
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Data-Driven Childhoods: Settler Colonialism and Numeracy in the Boys’ Literature of Francis La Flesche and Francis Rolt-Wheeler

Laura Soderberg
American Literature (2024) 96 (1): 57–83.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11092071
Published: 01 March 2024
... as primitive or dependent. 5 The numerical archives of Carlisle then matter both because of their immediate effect on the children they measured and as a major link between everyday processes of settler colonialism and attending movements of race science and eugenics that sought to establish whiteness...
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Introduction: The Plantation, the Postplantation, and the Afterlives of Slavery

Gwen Bergner
American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 447–457.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7722078
Published: 01 September 2019
..., colonialism, and imperialism. The new critical assemblage also formulates the question of agency through a “flow of knowledge, archives, and geographic spaces” that includes the Caribbean, a region often sidelined within Latinx or American studies (Fiol-Matta and Gómez-Barris 2014 : 494). This turn...
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Witnessing Otherwise in John Gabriel Stedman’s Narrative, of a Five Years’ Expedition

Kimberly Takahata
American Literature 11792419.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11792419
Published: 07 March 2025
..., a contrast to others who have been erased by the archive without a choice. Put another way, while these silences remain sites of colonial violence and erasure, they are also instances of Indigenous refusal where Native persons continue doing and living as they have always done. This refusal, rather than...
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Introduction: New Directions in the Study of New World Knowledge Making

Alexander Mazzaferro
American Literature 11845230.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11845230
Published: 07 March 2025
..., edited by Michael Boyden. But by looking beyond familiar scienti c institutions and emphasizing early colonial archives, we hope to foreground a wider array of epistemologies, to pluralize science as scientiae or, better yet, to trade in the rather limiting idea of science for the more inclusive concept...
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The Parasitical Trick: Mediating Dispossession in Early America

Ethan A. Plaue
American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 89–113.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10345379
Published: 01 March 2023
... and fits normative expectations about what claiming identity from within colonial archives looks like. Yet, Printer’s Cambridge editions “care not” about recognition and instead standardize his name along with the others, eschewing the historicist desire to ascribe authorship. Printer’s role...
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The Epistemology of the Ursuline Convent in New Orleans

Liz Polcha
American Literature 11792395.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11792395
Published: 07 March 2025
..., however, cannot help us unpack the gendered conditions of her life or the carceral epistemology of the Ursuline complex. The structures of archival power and white colonial authorship of this letter relate her acts of taking care as a bene t to the colony foremost, which saw her as a unit of labor...
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Makandal and Pandemic Knowledge: Literature, Fetish, and Health in the Plantationocene

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Kate Simpkins
American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 723–735.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8780935
Published: 01 December 2020
...); Macandale, chef des noirs révoltés, arrêt de condamnation par le Conseil supérieur du Cap-Français à Saint-Domingue (1758; Archives Nationales Colonies, Paris; AN E 295); the eight-page “ Relation d’une conspiration tramée par les Negres, : dans l’Isle de S. Domingue; défense que fait le Jésuite Confesseur...
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Environmental Practice and Early American Literature Ariel's Ecology: Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics

Susan Scott Parrish
American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 605–607.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3149405
Published: 01 September 2015
...Susan Scott Parrish Environmental Practice and Early American Literature . By Ziser Michael . Cambridge, UK : Cambridge Univ. Press . 2013 . ii , 224 pp. Cloth, $90.00 ; e-book, $72.00 . Ariel's Ecology: Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics...
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Lost Archives, Lost Lands: Rereading New Mexico’s Imagined Environments

Carlos Alonso Nugent
American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 309–341.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8267756
Published: 01 June 2020
.... By celebrating colonial land grants, they opened alternatives to capitalist environments. Although they reaffirm aspects of Spanish colonialism, the Alianza’s archives challenge the prevailing ways of depicting and dwelling in the borderlands. As one might expect, they differ from Willa Cather’s novels...
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Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, and Post-Humanist Critique Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature

Gary Edward Holcomb
American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 217–220.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7335645
Published: 01 March 2019
... Foucault, Paul Gilroy, Cedric Robinson, and Sylvia Wynter, Archives of Flesh calls for a heretical critical approach to humanism with respect to how it sustains, despite Enlightenment rhetorics to the contrary, the histories of slavery, racism, and colonialism. As its title suggests, moreover, Archives...
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Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska’s Indigenous and Asian Entanglements Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America

Sunny Xiang
American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 773–776.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11611127
Published: 01 December 2024
...Sunny Xiang [email protected] Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska’s Indigenous and Asian Entanglements . By Juliana Hu Pegues . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . 2021 . 232 pp. Cloth, $95.00 ; paper, $32.95 . Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America...
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Announcement

American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 874–876.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3711222
Published: 01 December 2016
... recent calls to reconceptualize notions of the human in relation to colonial plantation slavery to challenge the omission of race in much current theory of posthumanism, biopolitics, and bare life. As Alexander Weheliye and Zakiyyah Iman Jackson note, Giorgio Agamben’s state of exception and bare life...
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Announcement

American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 666–668.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4161038
Published: 01 September 2017
... recent calls to reconceptualize notions of the human in relation to colonial plantation slavery to challenge the omission of race in much current theory of posthumanism, biopolitics, and bare life. As Alexander Weheliye and Zakiyyah Iman Jackson note, Giorgio Agamben’s state of exception and bare life...
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