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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 331–354.
Published: 01 June 2017
... pedagogical practices. This article considers the centrality of ethics to a postidentity Asian American studies, suggesting how ethical alienation—signaled both by the figuration of “comfort women”/military sex slaves/ halmoni and our own estrangement from it—can create productive classroom...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 347–375.
Published: 01 June 2018
.... The comic thus models the temporalities of surviving trauma. The feminist temporalities of survivorship here also model utopian futures that are homosocial, queer, often ecstatic, and resistant to normative scripts of what should give women comfort. Undergirded by a radical feminist perspective that sees...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 213–223.
Published: 01 June 2017
... in her analysis of the complex representation of “‘comfort women’/military sex slaves/ halmoni .” This act of naming highlights and formulates a pedagogy that not only arises from the contestations that surround each term but also puts into practice how Chen’s pedagogy of ethical alienation and “active...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 757–768.
Published: 01 December 2024
...). The chapters include discussions of Younghill Kang’s 1937 novel East Goes West in relation to Japanese industrialization, Kaneshiro Kazuki’s GO (2000), which tells of a Zainichi high schooler in relation to US racialization, and US novels about Korean comfort women in Japan, including Chang-rae Lee’s...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 769–795.
Published: 01 December 2012
... ideologies that require such cyclical sacrifice from genera­ tions of women. The poem itself ultimately fulfills for the reader the demand for comfort that is both awakened by and denied the speaker. The unvar­ ied use of dactylic tetrameter cut by catalexis lulls the reader, allow­ ing her...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 867–869.
Published: 01 December 2018
...) and without a community of sufferers. Instead, these women want to face pain and suffering alone and without comfort. “The detachment of these women—their preference for solitude over solidarity—seeks to eliminate the in-betweenness of affect, or feelings and emotions” (11), Nelson explains. This solitude...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 889–891.
Published: 01 December 2017
... women like F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jordan Baker rejected traditional femininity and romance for careers, athleticism, comfort, and nonchalance that were enabled and expressed by loose, androgynous clothing. Through their fashion choices, women engaged in debates over gender roles, sexuality, aesthetics...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2008
... in their moral superiority and domestic well-being when black women undertake the nation’s dirty work. Milly offers comfort to both chil- dren and reader alike as she provides an image “of female households and workplaces that protect the hyper-embodied frame; of an unalien- ated capitalist public sphere...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 811–839.
Published: 01 December 2019
... in the tenebrous alleys through which she meanders on her routine strolls. The ensuing investigation uses the castrated male as an occasion for a metafictional, existential exploration of both writing and femininity, and the text spans the temporal and corporeal differences between contemporary women’s writing...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 147–169.
Published: 01 March 2014
... created by the “badly cultivated” taste of greedy white women who “have hardly any conception of comfort with- out splendor, or of beauty beyond fashion” (1856, 599). Within these pages, Southern slavery is a social problem that Northern free labor has solved; yet, white women’s costliness...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 123–150.
Published: 01 March 2005
...- tinct and domestically circumscribed female body 1 Yet as Sánchez- Eppler and others have argued, the connection through sympathy of women and slaves is tenuous. In Northern abolitionist texts, such as Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and in many Southern women’s diaries, essays...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 409–412.
Published: 01 June 2020
.... Press . 2017 . ix, 260 pp. Cloth, $ 35.00 ; paper, $ 26.00 ; e-book, $ 25.99 . Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say about Their Lives . By Leigh Gilmore . New York : Columbia Univ. Press . 2017 . xi, 218 pp. Cloth, $ 30.00 ; paper, $ 22.00 ; e-book, $ 21.99 . Copyright ©...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 607–641.
Published: 01 December 2024
... and women who could earn ‘credit’ for their communities in the civic economy, advocating for them in a market that was increasingly figured as the space for, rather than a threat to, citizenship practice. African Americans attempted to mediate their imminent exclusion from the body politic by putting...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 501–525.
Published: 01 September 2007
... spaces along with the complex interplay of social forces that result in the victimization of women. These stories thus not only par- ticipate in the tradition of the American female gothic but also sug- gest that this genre—and perhaps even the gothic in general—might American Literature, Volume...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 757–778.
Published: 01 December 2001
... and the U.S. regimes, but in practice Church leaders tolerated such liaisons and did not generally condemn either those who engaged in them or their children.15 While this unofficial tolerance helped free Creoles of color to preserve their status, it also perpetuated the sexual exploitation of free women...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 769–798.
Published: 01 December 2006
... of South- ern superabundance.8 As Colonel J. Sprague, Assistant Commissioner of the Florida Freedmen’s Bureau, complains, ‘‘The men are averse to their women and children going into the field as common laborers, desiring them rather to attend to housework, as they express it, like White folks...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 163–185.
Published: 01 June 2024
... initially delays her escape attempt because “my heart was not proof against her extreme agony” (127). Linda suffers not because of her own “extreme agony” but because of her grandmother’s: the one’s pain has become too much for the other’s bodymind to resist. The broken heart now threatens both women...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 527–551.
Published: 01 September 2007
... of the “cultivated” arts, in turn depriving “greater” artists “of a sympathetic and appreciative audience.”12 If industrial capitalism no longer required skilled or intel- ligent men, women, or children as workers, it would no longer have a wide audience for skilled and intelligent art. “Art is man’s...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 639–644.
Published: 01 September 2008
... responded to various kinds of exegetical writings of his period, including biblical scholarship, sermons, women’s Bibles, literary scriptures, and Holy Land travel narratives. Pardes describes a deeply religious Melville, who, like many of his contemporaries, was invested in redefining the nature...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 623–650.
Published: 01 December 2022
... energy, deserves new attention. Unlike Franklin or Emerson, both of whom took their economical wives for granted, Beecher thought of the true costs of heating the home and feeding its inhabitants. In “Comfort for a Discouraged Housekeeper,” Beecher offers women who “feel no energy or spirits to make...