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American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 677–705.
Published: 01 December 2008
... no place either in the atomizing political geography of Indian policy or the hybridized critical imaginary of the “middle ground.” © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Mark Documenting Tradition:
Rifkin Territoriality and Textuality in
Black Hawk’s Narrative...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Valerie Sirenko Abstract This article argues that Black writers throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries produced a critical knowledge of how legal documentation functions to produce racialized structures of power and Black vulnerability at law. In literature that reckons with slavery’s...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 35–64.
Published: 01 March 2009
... portrayal of slavery through contemporaneous changes in contract law. Surveying the numerous legal documents that accumulate within and between the novella and its source text, Amasa Delano's Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres (1817), the essay compares contracts...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 159–184.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Lindsay Thomas This essay examines two kinds of speculative fiction focused on the management of climate change: preparedness documents on climate change as a threat to national security, and Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy (1993–96), a science fiction trilogy about the terraformation...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 331–360.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Mary Elene Wood Abstract This article begins with the discovery in a Wellcome Library war psychiatry archive of a carbon copy of one of John Steinbeck’s 1943 dispatches to the New York Tribune from the Italian front. The article examines Steinbeck’s dispatch in relation to documents in the military...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 629–660.
Published: 01 December 2013
... distinctions they generate. Drawing on archival material related to Bierce’s experience as a topographical engineer in the Civil War—maps, telegrams, circulars, and other official war documents—Carey reengages Bierce’s style in a mutually constitutive relationship with the cultural techniques that marked it up...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 505–530.
Published: 01 September 2013
... beyond the well-documented transatlantic mobility of the Irish diaspora. As such, a comparative perspective is necessary to fully understand that the novel’s famous blending of Irish ethnicity and Southern history is part of a larger transnational phenomenon; although Gone with the Wind seems...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 281–307.
Published: 01 June 2020
... the disability category’s historical role in sorting people into work-based or need-based systems of social distribution, is commonly represented as disabled. Ultimately, the essay documents a dual development in US political economy as the marginalization of contraband slaves as capitalist laborers on the Sea...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 227–253.
Published: 01 June 2021
... framework to reveal connections across regional gothics in the United States and expose colonial legacies. The enduring trauma of British imperialism is well-documented, but American colonialism, particularly in Hawai‘i, is rarely addressed in the continental United States, making a gothic...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 49–71.
Published: 01 March 2022
... this period, which also represented a boom in video game development. However, documentation remains of only a handful of early video games that mention HIV/AIDS. This article argues that, far from being absent from video game history, HIV/AIDS and the US AIDS crisis were actually influential in shaping...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 361–390.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Andrew Kopec Abstract This essay considers the politico-aesthetics of infrastructure by focusing on poems that anticipate, justify, and critique internal improvements, from Joel Barlow’s early Republican vision of the Erie and Panama Canals to texts that document the ruin caused by the works Barlow...
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American Literature 10679237.
Published: 28 April 2023
...Sunhay You Abstract “The Sweetness of Race” examines the sensorial effects of lexical-gustatory synesthesia in Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth (2010). In this documentation of how words taste, whiteness becomes associated with the taste of sugar and its addictive properties. Throughout...
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in A Storied Place: Jonathan Carver’s Travel Narrative and the Indigenous Map of the Upper Mississippi River Valley
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Published: 01 March 2020
Figure 2 Increase Lapham, The Antiquities of Wisconsin, as Surveyed and Described (1855, plate XLI). In a series of plates, Lapham documented Native effigy mounds and earthworks like these Ho Chunk ones. Carver came through this region on his travels. Image courtesy of Special Collections
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 257–280.
Published: 01 June 2020
... of documents within the topic model draws out the significance of letters to the editor as a genre, highlighting its presence and its relationships to other genres. Figure 1 visualizes the rise and fall of genre similarities from the perspective of the “fiction” genre. At the very top of the graph...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 661–688.
Published: 01 December 2013
... administration for our country” (33:39).
Jefferson then signed the letter, put down his pen, and moistened a
sheet of copying paper, expressly imported from London. After placing
the copying paper over the original document, the iron-gall ink still
wet, he encased the two sheets in abhesive paper—waxed...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 181–209.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., Antegria, Impor, Republia, and the United Federation. Your job is deceptively simple: allow those with proper identification documents to enter and reject everyone else. However, as the government responds to unfolding geopolitical events in neighboring countries and changes its immigration regulations...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 185–187.
Published: 01 March 2016
... Gia Phan’s Bonds of Citizenship: Law
and the Labors of Emancipation both clarify and complicate ongoing debates
surrounding questions of citizenship, community membership, and exclusion
from membership in nation or community through close readings of primary
texts—legal documents, pamphlets...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 459–490.
Published: 01 September 2019
... by a tactic of circumlocution and irony that addresses tensions in this accumulation of histories, memories, and stories. 4 The story told by professional historians is gathered from an archive of documents produced by French colonial elites, most of which are only accessible to those who travel to France...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 511–539.
Published: 01 September 2005
... Chinese Immigrants 515
method of documentation for all Chinese people already residing in
the United States. According to this law, resident Chinese laborers
who wished to travel abroad and then return to the United States had
to apply for a reentry certificate before leaving. Chinese merchants...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Figure 2 Increase Lapham, The Antiquities of Wisconsin, as Surveyed and Described (1855, plate XLI). In a series of plates, Lapham documented Native effigy mounds and earthworks like these Ho Chunk ones. Carver came through this region on his travels. Image courtesy of Special Collections...
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