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The Thin White Line: Veterans and the White Racial Politics of Creative Writing

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Joseph Darda
American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 783–810.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7917308
Published: 01 December 2019
...Joseph Darda Abstract This essay considers how the creative writing workshop transformed the white Vietnam vet into a minority writer. The MFA system, which organized the group-based politics of post–civil rights American literature, originated as a space geared toward white combat veterans. Some...
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The Shining and the Media Conglomerate; or, How All Work and No Play Made Jack a Creative Artist in the 1970s

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Palmer Rampell
American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 151–182.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7335385
Published: 01 March 2019
...Palmer Rampell Abstract In the 1970s the large multinational entertainment conglomerates that gained control of both publishing and Hollywood traded the rights to creative works across different media, hoping for a single moneymaking hit. This new emphasis on blockbuster productions led...
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Creative Alliances: The Transnational Designs of Indigenous Women’s Poetry Broken Souths: Latina/o Poetic Responses to Neoliberalism and Globalization

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Maria Damon
American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 645–647.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3650307
Published: 01 September 2016
...Maria Damon Creative Alliances: The Transnational Designs of Indigenous Women’s Poetry . By McGlennen Molly . Norman : Univ. of Oklahoma Press . 2014 . ix, 230 pp. Paper , $24.95 . Broken Souths: Latina/o Poetic Responses to Neoliberalism and Globalization . By Dowdy...
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Obscure Invitations: The Persistence of the Author in Twentieth-Century American Literature Industry and the Creative Mind: The Eccentric Writer in American Literature and Entertainment, 1790-1860

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Jennifer Brady
American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 621–623.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2717308
Published: 01 September 2014
...Jennifer Brady Obscure Invitations: The Persistence of the Author in Twentieth-Century American Literature . By Widiss Benjamin . Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ. Press . 2011 . x , 208 pp. Cloth , $65.00 ; paper , $21.95 ; e-book , $21.95 . Industry and the Creative Mind...
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The Muse in Bronzeville: African American Creative Expression in Chicago, 1932-1950 Visionary Women Writers of Chicago’s Black Arts Movement

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Margo Natalie Crawford
American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 412–414.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2646955
Published: 01 June 2014
...Margo Natalie Crawford The Muse in Bronzeville: African American Creative Expression in Chicago, 1932-1950 . By Bone Robert and Courage Richard A. . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers Univ. Press . 2011 . xx , 302 pp. Paper , $29.66 . Visionary Women Writers of Chicago’s Black...
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Cannibal Old Me: Spoken Sources in Melville's Early Works; African Culture and Melville's Art: The Creative Process in “Benito Cereno” and “Moby-Dick.”

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Robert K. Wallace
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 190–192.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-077
Published: 01 March 2010
...Robert K. Wallace © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Cannibal Old Me: Spoken Sources in Melville's Early Works . By Mary K. Bercaw Edwards. Kent, Ohio: Kent State Univ. Press. 2009. xxii, 252 pp. $49.00. African Culture and Melville's Art: The Creative Process in “Benito...
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Creative Conflict in African American Thought: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey;Photography on the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture;Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow Era

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Ira Dworkin
American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 421–424.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-2-421
Published: 01 June 2005
.... This said, all three books present rich and nuanced studies allowing us to better understand the tensions and anxieties surrounding U.S cultural and ethnic identity. Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio State University Creative Conflict in African American Thought: Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell...
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American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street Illegal Literature: Toward a Disruptive Creativity The Aesthetics of Middlebrow Fiction: Popular US Novels, Modernism, and Form, 1945–75

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Lee Konstantinou
American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 183–186.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4326514
Published: 01 March 2018
... issues are at stake in this argument. One concerns the function of each part of the system Roh posits. What can the periphery do that the core can’t? Roh’s case studies—Alice Randall’s The Wind Done Gone (2001) and Pia Pera’s Lo’s Diary (1998), for example—suggest that disruptive creativity...
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Birthing a Nation: Gender, Creativity, and the West in American Literature

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Betsy Klimasmith
American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 179–181.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-1-179
Published: 01 March 2002
... the opportunity to become educated; who took creative writing, literature, and journalism classes; who imagined themselves as scholars and writers; who mentored one another; and who kept journals and wrote letters testifying to their ambitions and anxieties about simply being at the university. In the pro...
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Poetry Will Not Optimize; or, What Is Literature to AI?

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Michele Elam
American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 281–303.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10575077
Published: 01 June 2023
...Michele Elam Abstract Literature, poetry, and other forms of noncommercial creative expression challenge the techno-instrumentalist approaches to language, the predictive language generation, informing NLP (large natural language processing models) such as GPT-3 or -4 as well as, more generally...
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National Wounds and Gendered Harm: Reframing Abortion Pain in The Worst of Times

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Alex O’Connell
American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 269–295.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11218893
Published: 01 June 2024
.... In a moment when abortion legislation faces continued assaults, these narratives invite a consideration of how the embodied, personal pain of abortion can facilitate creative models of community that rethink the power structures that restrict reproductive autonomy. [email protected] Copyright © 2024...
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Tales Told by Empty Sleeves: Disability, Mendicancy, and Civil War Life Writing

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Jean Franzino
American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 399–438.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10084484
Published: 01 September 2022
... insights into the rigid constraints upon acceptable disability presentation in this era, as well as the creative choices made by veterans who peddled literature in order to survive. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 disability mendicant Civil War life...
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Toward a Cosmopolitan Science Fiction

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David M. Higgins
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 331–354.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266081
Published: 01 June 2011
... be found in Ursula K. Le Guin's Hainish novels. Unlike the work of many other SF authors from the 1960s and 1970s, Le Guin's extrapolations develop throughout her Hainish cycle beyond a straightforward negative critique of imperialism toward a positive and creative conceptualization of cosmopolitan...
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The Predisposed Agency of Genomic Fiction

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Everett Hamner
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 413–441.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266108
Published: 01 June 2011
... such experiences from Powers and others with questions about the extent to which genomics can be expected to yield new self-understanding. The essay's broadest argument is that by juxtaposing fictional creativity and genomic modification, Generosity effectively illustrates the need for bridge-building across...
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Shakespeare “Translated and Improved”: The Translational Politics of the American Yiddish Theater and Its Afterlife

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Danny Luzon
American Literature (2022) 94 (2): 273–299.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9779036
Published: 01 June 2022
...Danny Luzon Abstract This article explores the American Yiddish theater’s creative reworkings of William Shakespeare, a practice epitomized by the presumed parodic dictum “translated and improved” ( fartaytsht un farbessert ). It argues that this theater’s translational politics of chutzpah strives...
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Ouch: Pain, Heard and Referred

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Catherine Belling
American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 297–324.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11218900
Published: 01 June 2024
..., and the screenplay transmitting pain from one to the other—opens up a new archive of pain texts that promise sensation rather than relief, offering a new perspective on the imaginative—and paradoxically ameliorative—creativity brought into being by the notorious recalcitrance of pain. This essay argues for attention...
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Cripping the Archive: Analyzing Archival Disorder in the Yamashita Family Archives and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Letters to Memory

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Hayley C. Stefan
American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 755–782.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10950792
Published: 01 December 2023
...Hayley C. Stefan Abstract This article outlines a crip archival analysis of Karen Tei Yamashita’s creative family memoir Letters to Memory (2017) and the separate Yamashita Family Archives; the analysis revolves around the concept of disorder. The book and digital archives move the daily lived...
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“A form of life in which art is not art”: “Life in the Iron Mills” and the Artist as Worker in the Nineteenth-Century United States

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Sandra Tomc
American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 497–527.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4160870
Published: 01 September 2017
... at the difficulty even professional writers faced in mounting any kind of case for themselves as paid creative personnel. Even when writers made a rational argument to explain why they should be paid more, they tended to undermine themselves, invariably intimating that writers as a group were better off...
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Science, Nature Work, and the Kinaesthetic Body in Cather and Stein

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Anne Raine
American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 799–830.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-039
Published: 01 December 2008
... conceptions of artistic production that sought to reconcile the modern scientific view of human interiority with a modernist celebration of human creative agency, and at the same time to distance themselves from women's nature work while continuing the nature worker's task of drawing attention to the vital...
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James Weldon Johnson's Modern Soundscapes Jazz Griots: Music as History in the 1960s African American Poem Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature

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Gayle Wald
American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 841–843.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3329638
Published: 01 December 2015
...—that think “black literature” and “black music” together. Collec- tively, this strain of cultural critique has imagined literature and music as linked yet autonomous creative practices, rejecting a tendency, inherited from multiple sources and amplified and solidified during the Black Arts movement...
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