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Down on All Fours: Atavistic Perversions and the Science of Desire from Frank Norris to Djuna Barnes
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American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 525–562.
Published: 01 September 2001
...Dana Seitler Duke University Press 2001 Dana Seitler Down on All Fours: Atavistic Perversions and
the Science of Desire from Frank Norris to
Djuna Barnes
[T]here is truly a brute brain within the man’s, and when
the latter...
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To Hell and Back: Race and Betrayal in the Southern Novel; Race, Work, and Desire in American Literature, 1860-1930
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American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 398–400.
Published: 01 June 2006
...Leonard Cassuto 2006 To Hell and Back: Race and Betrayal in the Southern Novel . By Jeff Abernathy. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2003. xii, 240 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $18.95. Race, Work, and Desire in American Literature, 1860-1930 . By Michele Birnbaum. New York...
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Reconsidering McTeague 's “Mark” and “Mac”: Intersections of U.S. Naturalism, Imperial Masculinities, and Desire between Men
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 487–517.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Denise Cruz Duke University Press 2006 Denise Reconsidering McTeague’s ‘‘Mark’’ and ‘‘Mac
Cruz Intersections of U.S. Naturalism, Imperial
Masculinities, and Desire between Men
In a scene that seems out of place amid McTeague’s
minutely...
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Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing, 1930-1990
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 174–176.
Published: 01 March 2002
... England excavates their voices from docu-
ments created by ministers for purposes of their own and restores these voices
to specific dialogues, within a cultural space threatened by centrifugal social
and political forces and filled with the concomitant desires for community and
security.
Henigman...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 447–449.
Published: 01 June 2003
.... Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell Univ. Press; Cranbury,
N.J.: Associated Univ. Presses. 2002. 223 pp. $42.50.
Sublime Desire: History and Post–1960s Fiction. By Amy J. Elias. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins Univ. Press. 2001...
View articletitled, Tactical Readings: Feminist Postmodernism in the Novels of Kathy Acker and Angela Carter; Sublime <span class="search-highlight">Desire</span>: History and Post-1960s Fiction; Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting in the Cold War Era and After
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 621–624.
Published: 01 September 2008
... . By Katherine Henninger. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2007. xix, 232 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95. Lovers and Beloveds: Sexual Otherness in Southern Fiction, 1936–1961 . By Gary Richards. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2005. 256 pp. $44.95. Desire, Violence...
View articletitled, The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction; Ordering the Facade: Photography and Contemporary Southern Women's Writing; Lovers and Beloveds: Sexual Otherness in Southern Fiction, 1936–1961; <span class="search-highlight">Desire</span>, Violence, and Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy
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for article titled, The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction; Ordering the Facade: Photography and Contemporary Southern Women's Writing; Lovers and Beloveds: Sexual Otherness in Southern Fiction, 1936–1961; <span class="search-highlight">Desire</span>, Violence, and Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 199–200.
Published: 01 March 2009
...? The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America . By Matthew Frye Jacobson and Gaspar González. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 200. 234 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $19.95. Politics, Desire, and the Hollywood Novel . By Chip Rhodes. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2008. 190 pp. $34.95. Book...
View articletitled, The Colored Cartoon: Black Representation in American Animated Short Films, 1907–1954; What Have They Built You to Do? The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America; Politics, <span class="search-highlight">Desire</span>, and the Hollywood Novel
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 833–836.
Published: 01 December 2009
... and Economic Desire in American Fiction, 1789–1814 . By Karen A. Weyler. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2005. x, 269 pp. Cloth, $41.00; paper, $21.00. The Work of the Heart: Young Women and Emotion, 1780–1830 . By Martha Tom-have Blauvelt. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2007. xi, 275 pp...
View articletitled, The Captive's Position: Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England; Intricate Relations: Sexual and Economic <span class="search-highlight">Desire</span> in American Fiction, 1789–1814; The Work of the Heart: Young Women and Emotion, 1780–1830; Feminist Interventions in Early American Studies
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Cartographies of Desire: Captivity, Race, and Sex in the Shaping of an American Nation
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American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 188–189.
Published: 01 March 2001
... division and graduate) will find The National
Uncanny accessible, useful, and interesting. Its pairings of authors can stand
alone to complement the primary texts of a survey course or seminar.
Scott Andrews, California State University, Northridge
Cartographies of Desire: Captivity, Race, and Sex...
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Clean: Death and Desire in Samuel R. Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 389–411.
Published: 01 June 2011
...: Death and Desire in Samuel R. Delany’s
Reid-Pharr Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
Far from apologizing for their promiscuity as a failure to
maintain a loving relationship, far from welcoming the
return to monogamy as a beneficent...
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Reading Desire: In Pursuit of Ernest Hemingway
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American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 202–203.
Published: 01 March 2001
... division and graduate) will find The National
Uncanny accessible, useful, and interesting. Its pairings of authors can stand
alone to complement the primary texts of a survey course or seminar.
Scott Andrews, California State University, Northridge
Cartographies of Desire: Captivity, Race, and Sex...
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Fire and Desire: Mixed Race Movies in the Silent Era
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 160–161.
Published: 01 March 2002
... their voices from docu-
ments created by ministers for purposes of their own and restores these voices
to specific dialogues, within a cultural space threatened by centrifugal social
and political forces and filled with the concomitant desires for community and
security.
Henigman constructs her first...
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Things; A Desire for Women: Relational Psychoanalysis, Writing, and Relationships between Women
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 206–208.
Published: 01 March 2005
.... of Chicago Press. 2004. 471 pp. Cloth,
$49.50; paper, $25.00.
A Desire for Women: Relational Psychoanalysis, Writing, and Relationships be-
tween Women. By Suzanne Juhasz. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press.
2003. x, 247 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.00.
An infant and mother gaze into each...
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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
... and the soldier. Pérez examines these figures in the first two chapters, deftly demonstrating their reliance on imperialist discourses to mediate desire between men. Chapter 1 examines Herman Melville’s Billy Budd (1924), arguing that the “primitive, brown body” is used to cement Victorian homoeroticism...
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Desiring Blackness: A Queer Orientation to Marvel’s Black Panther , 1998–2016
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 221–250.
Published: 01 June 2018
... ( 2016 ) of the title character’s black female comrades-in-arms, this reading interrogates how race consciousness and colonial legacies inform the discourses of desire operating within the text. The term desiring blackness describes an orientation to reading that defers to African Americanist and black...
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From Sympathy to Empathy: Anzia Yezierska and the Transformation of the American Subject
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 361–388.
Published: 01 June 2010
... about empathy that defined this concept quite differently from current usages. Rather than designating an interpersonal dynamic, this discourse considered empathy as a relation among bodies, objects, and desire within capitalism. Yezierska's fashion-conscious characters reveal a United States...
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Hybridity, Identity, and Representation in La Mollie and the King of Tears
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 141–166.
Published: 01 March 2008
... as a celebratory model of either an ideal embodied pluralism or a free-floating deconstructive signifier. It presents an alternative model in Islas's use of hybridity for critiquing readerly desires for identity representation and common, everyday habits of thinking of identity in terms of a one-to-one relation...
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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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“Tendrils of Association”: World War I Narrative and the U.S. Political Imaginary
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 553–581.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Jonathan Vincent Vincent considers the way U.S. literature of the 1920s and 1930s used the rhetorical occasion of World War I to promote revisions of U.S. liberalism and its prevailing ideologies of citizenship. Urged on by desires for a more cohesive polity, Vincent argues, numerous war novelists...
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The Sticky Web of Medical Professionalism: Robert Herrick’s The Web of Life and the Political Economy of Health Care at the Turn of the Century
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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 583–610.
Published: 01 September 2014
.... By the end of the novel, both Sommers and The Web of Life have been forced to acknowledge if not the desirability, then the practical necessity, of the orthodox profession’s monopoly on health care. This reluctant endorsement on Herrick’s part also offers an important perspective on why large-scale systemic...
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