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Elizabeth Bishop and Containment Policy
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American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 843–867.
Published: 01 December 2003
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Reading Network Fiction; This Book Contains Graphic Language: Comics as Literature
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American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 848–850.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Patrick Jagoda © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Reading Network Fiction . By David Ciccoricco. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2007. x, 244 pp. $39.95. This Book Contains Graphic Language: Comics as Literature . By Rocco Versaci. New York: Continuum. 2007. ix, 237 pp...
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Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 1 From a game theory textbook (Karlin and Peres 2017 : 5), an illustration of a match containing an unstable pair. The Gale-Shapley algorithm (Gale and Shapley 1962 ) guarantees the existence of a stable matching (i.e., one containing no unstable pairs). In this case, an unstable pair
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Immunity’s Racial Empire: Virality, Melancholy, Whiteness
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 513–541.
Published: 01 September 2020
... itself. I understand Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash (1992) and Chuck Hogan’s The Blood Artists (1998) to think, in submerged literary form, an incremental embrace of virality as, ironically, the most viable vehicle for conserving the fantasies of both neoliberal competency and racial containment reified...
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Unsentimental Historicizing: The Neo-Slave Narrative Tradition and the Refusal of Feeling
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 115–143.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., settler colonialism, and racial capitalism interlock to materially and discursively enable the US nation-state and liberal citizenship; sentimental conventions facilitate processes of containment and capture that allow this infrastructure to function smoothly rather than disrupting it. In contrast...
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The Mystery of the Missing AIDS Crisis: A Comparative Reading of Caper in the Castro and Murder on Main Street
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 49–71.
Published: 01 March 2022
... Caper in the Castro , widely celebrated as the first LGBTQ video game, contains clear echoes of the AIDS crisis. Yet, as this article demonstrates, HIV/AIDS remains a powerful presence even in Murder on Main Street , Ralph’s “straight version” of the game. Together, these games offer a microcosm through...
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Lost Archives, Lost Lands: Rereading New Mexico’s Imagined Environments
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 309–341.
Published: 01 June 2020
... are, whom they can contain, and how they should be used. 1 Throughout this article, I use the abbreviation “RLT” to designate the Reies López Tijerina Papers. Whenever I cite a Spanish-language source, I place the original between quotation marks and my English translation in parentheses. 2 Kosek...
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How Do We See COVID-19? Visual Iconographies of Racial Contagion
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 707–722.
Published: 01 December 2020
... that reinforces racist and xenophobic discourses of containment and control with direct and deadly consequences. Mitigation of this pandemic and future pandemics will require not only medical but also representational interventions. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 media public health...
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Frank Reade, Jr., in Cuba : Dime-Novel Technology, U.S. Imperialism, and the “American Jules Verne”
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 279–303.
Published: 01 June 2011
... of the Reade novels, however, also contains motifs that resist direct analogues to imperialism. Senarens's earliest stories frequently feature elements that undermine the conceptualizations of race and nationalism that enabled U.S. global territorial expansion. This approach reaches its fullest expression...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2014
... of Robert Montgomery Bird’s The Gladiator (1831), and thus it contained an implicit threat of collective violence should working-class speech be curtailed. Moreover, Forrest’s close friendship with abolitionist William Leggett and quotation of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Queen Mab and Revolt of Islam (among...
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Colonial Relations in Miniature: Affective Networks, Race, and the Portrait in Victor Séjour’s “Le Mulâtre”
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 167–194.
Published: 01 June 2021
... structures depend on racialized distributions of affections. In the concluding portion of this essay, I turn to the “little buckskin pouch” containing Alfred’s miniature and consider how its resemblance to Afro-Atlantic folk charms recasts the racialized binaries traditionally advanced by miniature portraits...
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Intergenerational Testimonials and the Politics of Black Cherokee Belonging
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 671–690.
Published: 01 December 2024
... familial claims and materially contain the fragmentary echoes of a collective set of desires. These testimonials refuse a racial and colonial conception of belonging. The article argues that the collaborative political labor of submitting claims captures the plurality of expression in the documents. What...
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“An Extreme Sense of Protest against Everything”: Chester Himes’s Prison Novel
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 111–140.
Published: 01 March 2018
... diminished its political disruptiveness. Cast the First Stone labors to contain the “extreme sense of protest” that Yesterday dramatizes so powerfully. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 criminality incarceration queer race state violence penology The most deadly prison fire...
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Rehearsing for Reconstruction: The Archipelagic Afterlives of the Port Royal Experiment
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 281–307.
Published: 01 June 2020
...; the scholarly monographs in UNC Press’s Social Study Series; and DuBose Heyward’s popular “Negro novel” Porgy (1925). Across this interdisciplinary tradition, writers of various stripes seek by turns to celebrate and contain the threat of the free but noncapitalist black body. The latter figure, recalling...
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Frances Whipple, Elleanor Eldridge, and the Politics of Interracial Collaboration
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 689–717.
Published: 01 December 2011
... Eldridge's life and misfortunes, Elleanor's Second Book contains only an abbreviated biography of its eponymous African and indigenous heroine. After its biographical opening section, Elleanor's Second Book shifts to several stories about white women representing a variety of class locations...
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Contested Terrain: The Suburbs as Region
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 617–644.
Published: 01 September 2012
... geography, Wilhite argues that we should read suburban narratives for the ways they update and revise long-standing regionalist approaches to local and global concerns: the charged insularity of the domestic sphere, the geographic containment of racial difference, the repressive construction of a common...
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Seriality and Settlement: Southworth, Lippard, and The Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 31–59.
Published: 01 March 2014
... in relation to issues of empire surrounding the US-Mexico war, the essay refocuses attention on broader discourses of settler colonialism. Attending to the recurrence embedded in the ostensibly linear forms of these works, and to images in which they confront US settlement of lands that contain other...
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“A Climate . . . More Prolific . . . in Sorcery”: The Black Vampyre and the Hemispheric Gothic
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2015
... of labor. While The Black Vampyre appears to contain the gothic horrors of a version of the Haitian Revolution with the end of a slave revolt and the end of the main characters’ vampirism, the text titillates readers with the possibility that a vampiric descendant of its eponymous hero has moved on from...
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Sacred Geographies: Religion and Race in Women's Holy Land Writings
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 471–500.
Published: 01 September 2008
... a contentious, religiously diverse society. The multicultural community that women writers envisioned, however, was founded on the subordination of religious and racial others; moreover, women's Holy Land writings conflated religious and racial otherness as a way of containing difference. The Muslim-Arab became...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 159–184.
Published: 01 March 2016
... is inseparable from an experience of it, the Mars books challenge preparedness by emphasizing ongoing change rather than the containment of a never-ending series of disasters. Lindsay Thomas is assistant professor of English at Clemson University. Her current book project, “Training for Catastrophe...
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