... and the son’s suicide. I argue that by emplotting the miniature in a moment of bloodshed rather than of sentiment, Séjour registers the affective and material violence that undergirds white colonial definitions of the family, and invites broader critical comparison of the ways that both sentimental and colonial...

... explores how lives are shaped by metaphors, comparisons, erasures, elisions, and gaps, and how the elliptical, unsaid, implied, and occluded might be deployed, instead, to build a better present. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 literary studies Adrienne Rich pedagogy...

... organizations create visual imagery to teach the public to imagine we can see and therefore avoid contaminants that are invisible to the naked eye. Comparison of COVID-19 with other global disease outbreaks shows how a core set of contagion media visualizations are repeatedly deployed with subtle adaptations...

...Jessica Q. Stark Abstract This essay presents in dialogue two renditions of the Nancy comics by original creator Ernie Bushmiller and the later poet and visual artist Joe Brainard. Arguing for a generative consideration of these seemingly disparate versions on a continuum, this comparison addresses...

... in comparison with the novel's male characters, but the essay concludes by considering the larger implications of replacing the idealized figure of the Republican Mother with a figure dubbed the Republican Mammy. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Elizabeth The Republican Mammy? Duquette...

... . By Long Le-Khac . Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ. Press . 2020 . 264 pp. Cloth, $120.00 ; paper, $30.00 . Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 What would it look like to decolonize solidarity? Is there a place for comparison in such an endeavor? In an essay on the “Afro-Asian...

... at least, is fundamentally different from any other magnitude. Kant’s discussion of the judgment of size is of interest to me because it captures the dynamics of comparison: the splitting gaze, the urge to measure, the reliance on imagined units. As economic theories of circulation reveal, the act...

... of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf. By Lisa Williams. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2000. xii, 194 pp. $59.95. In cross-cultural and transhistorical comparisons, the trick is often to justify and elaborate...

... and transhistorical comparisons, the trick is often to justify and elaborate the grounds for such comparisons. The Artist as Outsider in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf implicitly suggests one way of com...

.... Elmo 125 ments arises from the tension of loving and owning a human being.5 In this essay, however, I want to focus on the case of a sentimental novel by an ardent Confederate who draws the familiar comparison between the condition of white women and slaves while making no overt reference...

... quickly from one side of the Atlantic to the other without ade- quately describing the usefulness of such a comparison; only a few move beyond a binary transatlantic approach to analyses involving three or more...

... and Hawthorne, to coexist with the earlier figure. One of the clearest such mutations in the eighteenth century occurred in theological writing, as ministers began to figure themselves as angels. Instances of this mutation were often manifestly rhetorical— that is, they were comparisons that called...

... subjects.8 In California, the Elevator stren- uously insisted that there was “no analogy between the cases” as it railed against any “comparison between the negro and Chinese.”9 By intensifying nonwhite racial differentiation and conflict, the Chinese- black analogy, particularly as it emerged...

... of literary texts and art installations to substantive interviews and meticulous historical analyses. The book also features several powerful interventions in comparative analy- sis. For example, Chancy’s comparisons of Julia Alvarez’s and Edwidge Danti- cat’s takes on racialized violence in Hispaniola...

..., he does not look like much. Each comment here puts the child in comparison to the purportedly powerless and worthless cat. In particular, Aunt Polly’s comparison communicates her expectation for Tom as human and not cat. Her comparison between Tom’s dream and what a cat can do works as a reprimand...

... similarities in the moods and substructures of The Wrong Man and Vertigo, a welcome comparison, since The Wrong Man remains an underappreciated Hitchcock film in the otherwise vast and daunting coverage of his work...

... and whether it represented a providential design. There is something exciting about Daehnke’s eclectic choice of materi- als, about his comparison of canonical writers (Willa Cather, Mark Twain) with recreational pastimes and geographical spaces in the public domain. At the same time, Daehnke tends...

... by comparison with Boston society. ‘‘How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson’’ and Other Tales of Rebellious Girls and Daring Young Women. By Mark Twain. Ed. John Cooley. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2001. xvi, 255 pp. Paper, $16.95. Famous for his portrayals of rambunctious boys, Twain wrote a number...

..., if not the predominant strain of criticism organizing American Enchantment , casts enough of an interpretive shadow in the latter work to invite comparison with Schweighauser’s approach. He’s written, in his own words, with the aim “to shift attention away from reading aesthetics as ideology toward trying to understand...