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Subversion of the Human Aura: A Crisis in Representation
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 255–279.
Published: 01 June 2023
.... As with the destruction of the artwork’s aura, there are multiple possibilities for how this upheaval will play out in social, aesthetic, ethical, and economic terms, some of them liberatory, many not. What we can say for sure is that the situation is initiating a crisis in many different kinds of representations...
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W. E. B. DuBois's Family Crisis
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American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 291–319.
Published: 01 June 2000
...Daylanne English Duke University Press 2000 Daylanne W. E. B. DuBois’s Family Crisis
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6059 American Literature 72:2 / sheet 53 of223 James was aghast. ‘‘But Helga! Good heavens! Don’t you...
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Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction; Black Frankenstein: The Making of an American Metaphor; Secret Identity Crisis: Comic Books and the Unmasking of Cold War America
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 427–429.
Published: 01 June 2010
... . By Elizabeth Young. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2008. xii, 307 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $23.00. Secret Identity Crisis: Comic Books and the Unmasking of Cold War America . By Matthew J. Costello. New York: Continuum. 2009. viii, 293 pp. Cloth, $95.00; paper, $24.95. Book Reviews
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, Modernist Studies, and the Fin-de-Siècle Crisis in Masculinity
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American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 293–323.
Published: 01 June 2006
...Greg Forter Duke University Press 2006 Greg F. Scott Fitzgerald, Modernist Studies, and
Forter the Fin-de-Siècle Crisis in Masculinity
This essay brings together two fields in American
studies that have rarely been placed in dialogue but have urgent...
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Whitman's Atom and the Crisis of Materiality in the Early Leaves of Grass
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American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 253–279.
Published: 01 June 2009
...Mark Noble Noble's essay examines Walt Whitman's investment in an often radical materialization of subjectivity, which both underlies his earliest claims to reinvent embodied experience and brings his poetic project to crisis. In the 1855 Leaves , Whitman's enthusiasm for the popular science of his...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 849–851.
Published: 01 December 2009
..., and the Marriage Crisis . By David R. Shumway. xi, 269 pp. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2003. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $22.00. The Novel and the Obscene: Sexual Subjects in American Modernism . By Florence Dore. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2005. xii, 167 pp. $50.00. Book Reviews...
View articletitled, One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820–1870; Modern Love: Romance, Intimacy, and the Marriage <span class="search-highlight">Crisis</span>; The Novel and the Obscene: Sexual Subjects in American Modernism
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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
...Bo Ruberg Abstract This article addresses the seeming absence of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in video games from the 1980s and 1990s, the height of the US AIDS crisis. As Adrienne Shaw and Christopher Persaud have noted, stories about HIV/AIDS were pervasive across American popular media during...
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Readerly Revisions: Letters to the Editor in the Crisis
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 257–280.
Published: 01 June 2020
...William Reed Quinn Abstract This essay examines how the editorial staff of the Crisis positioned readers as collaborators and literary activists. Looking at letters to the editor, I argue that readers helped reevaluate representations of blackness in American literary taste. These letters bridge...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 196–198.
Published: 01 March 2011
... and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2009. vii, 210 pp. $24.95. Horace Greeley's “New-York Tribune”: Civil War–Era Socialism and the Crisis of Free Labor. By Adam Tuchinsky. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2010. xv, 312 pp. $59.95. Book Reviews
Beyond Douglass: New...
View articletitled, Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic; Walt Whitman and the Civil War: America's Poet during the Lost Years of 1860– 1862; Horace Greeley's “New-York Tribune”: Civil War–Era Socialism and the <span class="search-highlight">Crisis</span> of Free Labor
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Protest and Affirmation: Composite Texts in the Crisis
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American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 89–116.
Published: 01 March 2004
...Anne Carroll Duke University Press 2004 Anne Protest and Affirmation:
Carroll Composite Texts in the Crisis
The Crisis has long been recognized for its instru-
mentality in the early civil rights struggle and for its promotion of Afri-
can American...
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Would Poetry Disappear? American Verse and the Crisis of Modernity; Irrational Modernism: A Neurasthenic History of New York Dada
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 192–194.
Published: 01 March 2005
...David Bergman By John Timberman Newcomb. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2004. xxix,296 pp. Cloth, $74.95; paper, $22.95; CD, $9.95. By Amelia Jones. Cambridge: MIT Press. 2004. ix, 334 pp. $39.95. 2005 192 American Literature
Would Poetry Disappear? American Verse and the Crisis...
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A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 654–656.
Published: 01 September 2018
... A Taste for Brown Bodies and Not Straight, Not White differ in genre, discipline, and intent, both do the work of bringing to light that which is often overlooked. Kevin J. Mumford’s book Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis is quite different...
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Rights in a Time of Crisis
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 343–356.
Published: 01 June 2020
... States, meetings between African Americans and the police showed that the purported purposes of securitization were continuously used to justify attacks on the most vulnerable. In these moments of juridical crisis, people of color had, in practice, almost no rights whatsoever and were exposed to acts...
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“Jack In, Young Pioneer”: Frontier Politics, Ecological Entrapment, and the Architecture of Cyberspace
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 417–444.
Published: 01 September 2021
... Sprawl trilogy (1984–1988) to the Telecommunications Act of 1996, this essay argues that cyberspace’s infinite, virtual territory provided a solution to the apparent ecological crisis of the 1980s: the fear that the United States was running out of physical room to expand due to overdevelopment...
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Amoral Abolitionism: Frederick Douglass and the Environmental Case against Slavery
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 275–303.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Cristin Ellis Ellis’s essay reconstructs the history of environmental crisis—the crisis of Southern soil exhaustion—at the heart of the antebellum slavery debates. Through readings of landscape in My Bondage and My Freedom , the essay argues that in the 1850s, Douglass displaces the moral...
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The Stock Ticker in the Garden: Frank Norris, American Literary Naturalism, and Capitalocene Aesthetics
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 485–511.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Philomena Polefrone Abstract This essay argues that American literary naturalism engages with the Anthropocene at the moment it began to be visible, the turn of the twentieth century, and specifically identifies the role of finance in precipitating the crisis. Frank Norris’s The Octopus (1901...
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A visualization of the similarities of “articles” and “letters” to other ge...
Available to PurchasePublished: 01 June 2020
Figure 2 A visualization of the similarities of “articles” and “letters” to other genres in the Crisis , 1911–17. “Articles” and “letters” share a high degree of similarity. Figure courtesy of author
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 611–635.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Christopher Newfield The United States has long been seen as the world's leader in higher education, but in fact its academic outcomes have been stagnating or falling for years. Newfield shows that the current funding model for higher education is not the solution to this educational crisis but its...
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American Afterlife: Benjaminian Messianism and Technological Redemption in Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 767–797.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Avery Slater Reading Muriel Rukeyser’s 1938 long poem The Book of the Dead alongside Walter Benjamin’s theories of messianism and “profane illumination,” this essay explores how their work reconceives 1930s Marxist secular politics of redemption along postsecular lines. As a crisis in interwar...
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New Criticism and Value in Taiwanese College English
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 397–423.
Published: 01 June 2017
...David M. Stewart Abstract The first part of this article identifies major problems facing college English in Taiwan, including declining enrollment, reduced funding, and widespread contingent hiring, linking them to similar problems associated with the humanities crisis in the United States...
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