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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 707–722.
Published: 01 December 2020
... techniques, including microscopic images of the virus, close-ups of disease vectors, global and local maps of contagion, health workers in biohazard suits, and visibly ill patients. The essay argues that techniques for visualizing the invisible produce a narrative logic of causality in COVID-19...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 759–766.
Published: 01 December 2020
... (1939) to Tony Kushner’s Angels in America (1992–95), this essay situates their discussions of plague time within broader traditions stretching from Thucydides to Daniel Defoe to Albert Camus. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 temporality epidemics in literature contagion...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 279–304.
Published: 01 June 2017
... and kinship is not solely my intervention but also appears subtly within even those analyses that seek to differentiate these two relational modes, such as Priscilla Wald’s magisterial analysis of narratives of contagion in Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative . In Plague on Us...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (3): 325–353.
Published: 01 September 2024
... the isolation. Illnesses that begin in seclusion often fail to die out; instead, they fester. They then form new networks, connecting bodies through contagion. This pervasive pattern of infection explains why nearly all early American novels are disease narratives, to some degree. And disease narratives...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 93–119.
Published: 01 March 2013
...: Disease, Poverty, and Deviance in San Francisco . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . Craig Layne Parish . 2010 . “ ‘That Means Children to Me’: The Birth Control Movement in Nella Larsen's Quicksand .” In Gender Scripts in Medicine and Narrative , edited by Block Marcelline...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (3): 668–670.
Published: 01 September 2003
... of making narrative sense of ‘‘true’’ history and, most
important, render such individuals, like Lee Harvey Oswald, central to histori-
cal narratives of history and nation. Gender, sexuality, and, presumably, race...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 815–845.
Published: 01 December 2005
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course. It moves
in a horizontal, or metonymic contagion rather than through verti-
cal, or metaphorical processes of referentiality and signification
Spontaneous, decentered, and multivocal, gossip is antithetical to
developmental narrative. It seizes details and hyperbolizes...
Journal Article
American Literature (2003) 75 (3): 670–672.
Published: 01 September 2003
... seemingly as deep as the pond he tried to sound. While what they
found may be always just beyond our own grasp, their narrative explorations
remain intriguing invitations to search the existential depths of faith, unity...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 853–855.
Published: 01 December 2015
... as the epidemic as a media event spreads
narratives like Porter’s in something akin to literary contagion. Marshall ana-
lyzes modernist novels as “observation machines” that supply a reflexive visi-
bility to the way bodies and subjectivity are modal parts of larger sociotechno-
logical systems. Examining...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 513–541.
Published: 01 September 2020
... as the “apocalyptic” birthplace of contagion (Watney 1994 : 118; Patton 1999 : 387). That HIV would originate there is in this way unsurprising. On the other, Africa is simultaneously the symbolic location of the primitive. The indignity of the virus’s biological simplicity is thus doubled by a geographical insult...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 61–90.
Published: 01 March 2003
...: the Burkean terror, the inability of the single mind to mas-
ter and recuperate such sensory excess in language, the engulfment
and absorption, the contagion of rhetorical effects.5 It is also a typically
Norrisean figuration...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 666–668.
Published: 01 September 2019
... for a nonlinear approach that problematizes narratives of health activism. Ghostly Figures explores how “postwar poems often depict speakers who remember the past only partially, in ways that reveal that memory is itself obstructed” (1–2). For Keniston, belatedness is as psychological as it is formal...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 426–429.
Published: 01 June 2016
... Narrative . By Pfister Jude M. . Jefferson, NC : McFarland . 2014 . x, 205 pp. Paper , $35.00 ; e-book available. Relativism, Alternate History, and the Forgetful Reader: Reading Science Fiction and Historiography . By Thiess Derek J. . New York : Lexington Books . 2015 . vii, 175...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (4): 713–715.
Published: 01 December 2021
... corporation. Holloway’s chapter “The Claims of Property: Being and Belonging” reads 150 years of African American fiction against the background of narratives like Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (1861), tracing a tradition in which possession and dispossession...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 855–858.
Published: 01 December 2016
... a privileged—albeit negative—role in analyzing the historical development of early US literature, as well as its methodological horizons. Roberts’s reexamination of the status of the individual in the US tradition raises a generative question: If, as she suggests in chapter 2, the captivity narrative...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 643–646.
Published: 01 September 2018
... republican ideas were circulated and then debated alongside vigorous discussions of John Locke’s model of liberal individualism. Imperfectly synthesized, so the tale goes, republicanism and liberalism came to define nineteenth-century US politics, culture, and letters. Although this narrative was initially...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 891–894.
Published: 01 December 2004
..., the transition to an industrial econ-
omy, scientific racism, and immigration and contagion, they would have cast
intohigherreliefthestakesofrhetoricalform.
PoetsinthePublicSphereuses nineteenth-century women’s newspaper
and periodical poetry to tackle more directly the question of the Haber...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 737–743.
Published: 01 December 2020
... factoring into these rights. The healthy carrier narrative makes this abundantly clear, and this narrative offers a potential means of bridging gaps between ethical obligations on one hand and effective public health communication on the other. Although the novel coronavirus is more frequently framed...
Journal Article
American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 455–483.
Published: 01 September 2002
...
authorization of a new narrative looms so large for the lawyers in this
discussion. ‘‘Our identity Taylor writes, ‘‘is partly shaped by recog-
nition or its absence, often by the misrecognition of others, and so a
person or group of people can suffer real damage, real distortion, if
the people or society...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 413–421.
Published: 01 June 2004
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reflexivity and reveals the political messages camouflaged in her narratives.
In four separate sections, Thornton engages the theories of Bakhtin, Barthes,
Bourdieu, Derrida, and Macherey to reconfigure Welty’s role in the American
literary landscape.
Nabokov at the Movies: Film Perspectives in Fiction...
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