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A Queer Form of Trauma: Lesbian Epistolarity in Either Is Love
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 367–393.
Published: 01 June 2003
...Dona Yarbrough Duke University Press 2003 Dona A Queer Form of Trauma:
Yarbrough Lesbian Epistolarity in Either Is Love
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in Gaming Borders: The Rhetorics of Gamification and National Belonging in Papers, Please
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Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 5 Occasionally in Papers, Please (Lucas Pope, 2013 ), players encounter entrants who present a discrepancy between the sex listed on their passport and the sex revealed by the X-ray scan of their body. Players are given the option to either reject or detain the entrant. Screenshot
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Data-Driven Childhoods: Settler Colonialism and Numeracy in the Boys’ Literature of Francis La Flesche and Francis Rolt-Wheeler
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American Literature (2024) 96 (1): 57–83.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., to the passive objects of measurement and administration. More surprisingly, though, these books also display the role that children’s literature played in placing children themselves in a relationship with numerical data collection, either as enthusiastic and active participants or wary counteragents. While...
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The Information Isolation Trope: Isolation, Infection, and Information Silos in Early American Literature
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American Literature (2024) 96 (3): 325–353.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Kacy Dowd Tillman Abstract Many early American novels feature at least one character who becomes physically isolated, is restricted access to communication, becomes ill, spreads their sickness, and then either dies or becomes permanently disabled. This repeated pattern of isolation, infection...
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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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What to the American Indian Is the Fourth of July? Moving beyond Abolitionist Rhetoric in William Apess's Eulogy on King Philip
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American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 673–699.
Published: 01 December 2010
... of his people. More recently, critics have come to find in Apess a radical voice latching on to the power of the pulpit and the rhetoric of the abolitionist movement to argue for Native rights. In either case, Apess seems to have risen up from a kind of intellectual vacuum with no way of accounting...
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The Korean War, the Cold War, and the American Novel
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 51–77.
Published: 01 March 2015
... either experienced the war directly or explored the cultural memory of a war that, some scholars have argued, is a precondition of the very idea of Korean Americanness. Work of this phase begins with the premise that the US framing of the Korean War is damaging, and as such is marked by meta-engagements...
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John Neal, American Romance, and International Romanticism
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 477–504.
Published: 01 September 2012
... dimension to American romanticism and the American romance, either as epitomizing a distinctly American literature or as reinforcing or contesting dominant conceptions of the United States. In contrast, he argues that placing the romance, particularly as espoused and practiced by John Neal, at the center...
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“Some Queer Freak of Taste”: Gender, Authorship, and the “Rock Me to Sleep” Controversy
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 769–795.
Published: 01 December 2012
... and class privilege underlying Ball’s argument, claiming her own professionalism and disparaging Ball as a “poetaster” or a hopeless amateur. With publications across the United States taking sides on either side, the “Rock Me to Sleep” controversy became an important marker of the status of professional...
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Documenting Tradition: Territoriality and Textuality in Black Hawk's Narrative
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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 (2009) 81 (3): 439–467.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Ed White Historical interpretations of the Anglo-Pequot War have oscillated between ethnographic and conspiratorial explanations, arguing that it resulted either from cultural differences and misunderstandings or from scheming and provocation. But seventeenth-century accounts of the conflict...
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“The One Place Where Money Makes No Difference”: The Campus Novel from Stover at Yale Through The Art of Fielding
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American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 67–91.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Christopher Findeisen This essay argues that in its opposition to the business of college sports, the American campus novel has undergone very few changes over the past century. Debates about college sports replicate, either literally or metonymically, the assumed economic and social functions...
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Power of Body / Power of Mind: Arts and Crafts, New Thought, and Popular Women’s Literature at the Fin de Siècle
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American Literature (2021) 93 (4): 601–628.
Published: 01 December 2021
... national ideologies and the literature of their period, which tends to either synthesize the beliefs of both movements or represent one as patently superior to the other through satire or protest. The recovery of the history of these movements and their contribution to American literature not only retraces...
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“It’s Good to Be Shifty”: The Local Democracies of Old Southwestern Humor
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 273–301.
Published: 01 June 2013
... Lovingood: Yarns Spun by a Durn’d Fool (1867)— arguing for a new point of departure from the level of locality and with special attention to democratic decision making. Most nation-oriented readings portray the humor of the Old Southwest either as a regional subset supplementing nationalization via print...
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Manufacturing Belief: Religion, Slavery, and Benito Cereno
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American Literature (2024) 96 (3): 355–380.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Bryce Traister Abstract Although not typically read as either a religious text or a narrative preoccupied with religious issues, Herman Melville’s novella of maritime slave revolution and recontainment demonstrates how antebellum Americans came to “believe” in slavery. Focusing on the narrative’s...
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Making Americans in the New York Public Library: Fantasy and Realities
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American Literature (2025) 97 (1): 121–153.
Published: 01 March 2025
... with this mission, and some children found it difficult to embrace either the behavioral norms or the history they were offered as their own. Contextualizing archival scraps and complementing them with other evidence, this article argues that NYPL Children’s Rooms were vibrant, frequently chaotic, physical spaces...
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Disgusting Affects from the Antinomian Controversy to the Antiabortion Movement
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 785–813.
Published: 01 December 2018
... affective tactics help identify “rogues” to be eradicated—either colonial rogues, a “rogue procedure,” or a “rogue state”—hardening the border-focused feelings of disgust into hegemonic control. The essay concludes by taking a cue from the Puritans about embracing the inevitability of encountering...
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Mixed Race Literature; Literary Legacies, Folklore Foundations: Selfhood and Cultural Tradition in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century American Literature
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American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 890–892.
Published: 01 December 2003
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of Roxy that imagine her to be either white or black. In ‘‘Smuggling across
the Borders of Race, Gender, and Sexuality Martha Cutter investigates the
coded naming practices in Mrs. Spring Fragrance by the Eurasian writer Sui...
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Giving Up
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 791–798.
Published: 01 December 2020
.... Reagan.” (Wachowski and Wachowski 1999 ) The scene slyly suggests either that (a) Cypher was granted his wish and was reinserted into the Matrix as an actor named Joe Pantoliano or (b) Cypher was granted his wish and was reinserted into the Matrix as an actor named Reagan. For most working actors...
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Pragmatic Modernism Pragmatist Politics: Making the Case for Liberal Democracy Reconstructing Individualism: A Pragmatic Tradition from Emerson to Ellison
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 841–844.
Published: 01 December 2014
... qualities that have always set Ellison apart from his contemporaries).
Pragmatism is still too often associated with either the reductive political
meaning given the term in its everyday usage (a practical politician is described
as a “pragmatist”) or with the narrow cultural meaning assumed...
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