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Strangely Interested: The Work of Historical Fantasy

Michael A. Elliott

American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 137–157.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2865223

Published: 01 March 2015

...Michael A. Elliott The proliferation of historical commemoration in the United States has led to the willful, overt manipulation of historical facts through imaginative fantasy. This essay argues that a strong literary tradition can help us understand this mode of historical fantasy. The essay...

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“Unquestioned Citizenship”: History, Poetry, and Black and Native Military Service in Hampton Institute’s Southern Workman

Sidonia Serafini

American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 579–605.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11557521

Published: 01 December 2024

.... In race and traditionary histories, writers make visible the sacrifices of Black and Native soldiers that had been overlooked in official accounts of wars throughout US history. Writers also transform these histories’ commemorative aim into tribute poems, which accomplish similar work by recognizing...

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“Object into Subject”: Michelle Cliff, John Ruskin, and the Terrors of Visual Art

Wendy W. Walters

American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 501–526.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-020

Published: 01 September 2008

... of the planning and execution of the Harper’s Ferry raid by reinserting Pleasant into a history of resistance that has not been commemorated. Because Afri- can American resistance has often been officially subsumed under the memorialization of white abolitionists, Cliff’s novel retells some of the many...

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Bird Relics: Grief and Vitalism in Thoreau When I Came to Die: Process and Prophecy in Thoreau’s Vision of Dying

Ben Bascom

American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 423–425.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7529227

Published: 01 June 2019

... vitality” in all things (124). Birds signify the flittering movement of the transforming categories called life, becoming emblems, in Arsić’s assessment, of how “life commemorates itself” through a process of unending mourning (26). That continual mourning becomes the ground to imagine a new ethics...

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The Civil War Dead and American Modernity Battle Lines: Poetry and Mass Media in the U.S. Civil War I Remain Yours: Common Lives in Civil War Letters The Literature of Reconstruction: Not in Plain Black and White

Timothy Sweet

American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 594–598.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8616247

Published: 01 September 2020

... the most complex case is the commemoration of the Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth and its famed assault on Fort Wagner. This commemoration took two poetic forms: songs (including Harper’s) for the African American soldiers and sonnets and odes on the white commander, Robert Gould Shaw. The former allowed...

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Nancy and the Queer Adorable in the Serial Comics Form

Jessica Q. Stark

American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 315–345.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4564322

Published: 01 June 2018

... popularity through eponymous newspaper strips and several spin-off comics that continue to be published today. 1 Alongside her eighty-plus years of publication, Nancy has been depicted in an Andy Warhol painting, fashioned on a commemorative postage stamp, included in Art Spiegelman’s RAW comics...

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The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South,1861-1865

Kathleen Diffley

American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 869–870.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-4-869

Published: 01 December 2003

... enough to be dismissed. In addition to war poetry and subscription histo- ries, memorial volumes that commemorate the deaths of oﬃcers, and later boys’ books, her venturesome study surveys such forgotten wealth as broad...

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Imagining New York City: Literature, Urbanism, and the Visual Arts, 1890–1940 The Language of Vision: Photography and Southern Literature in the 1930s and After

Adam Sonstegard

American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 209–212.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7335621

Published: 01 March 2019

.... In his more inclusive study Millichap affixes Mathew Brady’s Civil War daguerreotypes, Depression-era documentary, and civil rights agitprop as focal points, but these periods also anticipate, reiterate, and commemorate one another. “Lost cause” daguerreotypes haunt 1930s photo exhibitions on rural...

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Ersatz America: Hidden Traces, Graphic Texts, and the Mending of Democracy America Writes Its History, 1650–1850: The Formation of a National Narrative Relativism, Alternate History, and the Forgetful Reader: Reading Science Fiction and Historiography

Kevin Modestino

American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 426–429.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3533470

Published: 01 June 2016

... of slaves haunt Kerry James Marshall’s paintings of Monticello. The hope Mark finds for the real in graphism lies in how, even at ersatz sites like Mount Vernon (committed to the monumental and heroic commemoration of a slaveowner), the presence of those slaves as living bodies with desires to participate...

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Thinking Outside the Book Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound What Is Your Quest? From Adventure Games to Interactive Books

Carol Colatrella

American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 630–632.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3149525

Published: 01 September 2015

... of literature’s key concepts. Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, “a mixed blood Ojibwe woman,” pro- duced texts that “enact and commemorate Ojibwe cultural practices,” illus- trating what Rohrbach argues is “a parallactic view of our contemporary struggles to reckon with multimodal digital culture as both product...

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Libertinism and Authorship in America's Early Republic

Bryce Traister

American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 1–30.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-1

Published: 01 March 2000

... to the point that the fragmentation of language commemorates agency’s disappearance; that is to say, the sensibility imagined here potentially makes the Harringtons of early America objects within a circulation...

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Urban Underworlds: A Geography of Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture

Kevin R. McNamara

American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 198–200.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1541031

Published: 01 March 2012

...-known antebellum poets whose claims to speak for and as the nation resonate with Whitman’s. Whitley thus introduces the commemorative verse with which the African American sepa- ratist James M. Whitfield, Mormon pioneer Eliza R. Snow, and Cherokee jour- nalist John Rollin Ridge each put...

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World Writing: Poetics, Ethics, Globalization

Joshua Miller

American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 201–203.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1541040

Published: 01 March 2012

... identity while also troubling its generic link to Whitman, this study turns to a trio of lesser-known antebellum poets whose claims to speak for and as the nation resonate with Whitman’s. Whitley thus introduces the commemorative verse with which the African American sepa- ratist James M. Whitfield...

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Modernist Writings and Religio-Scientific Discourse: H.d., Loy, and Toomer

Maeera Y. Shreiber

American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 203–205.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1541049

Published: 01 March 2012

... its generic link to Whitman, this study turns to a trio of lesser-known antebellum poets whose claims to speak for and as the nation resonate with Whitman’s. Whitley thus introduces the commemorative verse with which the African American sepa- ratist James M. Whitfield, Mormon pioneer Eliza R...

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The Purloined Islands: Caribbean-Us Crosscurrents in Literature and Culture, 1880-1959

Vera M. Kutzinski

American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 206–208.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1541058

Published: 01 March 2012

..., this study turns to a trio of lesser-known antebellum poets whose claims to speak for and as the nation resonate with Whitman’s. Whitley thus introduces the commemorative verse with which the African American sepa- ratist James M. Whitfield, Mormon pioneer Eliza R. Snow, and Cherokee jour- nalist John...

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Being Numerous: Poetry and the Ground of Social Life

J. Peter Moore

American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 209–212.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1541067

Published: 01 March 2012

.... Whitley thus introduces the commemorative verse with which the African American sepa- ratist James M. Whitfield, Mormon pioneer Eliza R. Snow, and Cherokee jour- nalist John Rollin Ridge each put marginalized cultural identities in the ser- vice of a literary nationalism. Whitfield, Snow, and Ridge...

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