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Colored Empires in the 1930s: Black Internationalism, the U.S. Black Press, and George Samuel Schuyler

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Etsuko Taketani
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 121–149.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-071
Published: 01 March 2010
...Etsuko Taketani First in the chronological table of world affairs relevant to any argument concerning the black internationalism of the 1930s is the Italo-Ethiopian War. George Samuel Schuyler, then the most prominent black journalist in the United States, stood in for international-minded black...
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The Arts of Antifascist Black Transnationalism during the Spanish Civil War

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Brandon Truett
American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 639–669.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10950740
Published: 01 December 2023
... had also adhered to this doctrine despite the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie’s unprecedented plea for support to resist Italian aggression. Indeed, as Edwards’s letter indicates, to intervene on behalf of the Second Spanish Republic as a civilian was in part to reanimate the recent memory...
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Brief Mention

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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 205–211.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1959670
Published: 01 March 2013
...-assumed antithetical relationship between conservatism and literature. The Ethiopian Prophecy in Black American Letters. By Roy Kay. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2011. xi, 259 pp. $74.95. Kay offers an excavation of the legacy of Psalms 68:31 in African American writings (one translation...
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John Bunyan in Abolitionist Print Culture

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Isaac Kolding
American Literature (2024) 96 (1): 29–55.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11092058
Published: 01 March 2024
... the Christian church. Now it came to pass, one day during their stay in this house, that towards the going down of the sun, there came one running in as out of breath, and he was an Ethiopian by complexion,—“Shelter me good men he cried, for a cruel giant hunteth me with hounds—who hath devoured millions...
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Contraband Singing: Poems and Songs in Circulation during the Civil War

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Michael C. Cohen
American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 271–304.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-002
Published: 01 June 2010
... less than a month after the initial publication of “Let My People Go,” while an arrangement of “Song of the Negro Boatman” by J. W. Dadmun was included as part of an “Ethiopian and Comic Songs” collection put out at the end of the century by the music publisher Oliver Ditson.47 Yet...
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Conjuring the Mysteries of Slavery: Voodoo, Fetishism, and Stereotype in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada

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Glenda R. Carpio
American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 563–589.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-3-563
Published: 01 September 2005
.... Turns her head toward the door where Barracuda is standing, tapping her foot. Voodoo, Fetishism, and Stereotype in Flight to Canada 573 ‘‘Oh, Barracuda, there you are, my dusky companion, my com- rade in Sisterhood, my Ethiopian suffragette ‘‘Oooomph Barracuda says...
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“Out of Joint”: Passing, Haunting, and the Time of Slavery in Hagar's Daughter

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Mikko Tuhkanen
American Literature (2007) 79 (2): 335–361.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-004
Published: 01 June 2007
... and in the escape route bridging the master’s house and the slave quarters. In Of One Blood, the ancient city is a stand-in for Ethiopian culture, which Hopkins, following con- temporary Egyptology, identified as the disavowed source of West- ern civilization and science.49 As a site of monstrosity...
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The Scene of Eviction: Reification and Resistance in Depression-Era Narratives of Dispossession

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Cody C. St. Clair
American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 497–525.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10084526
Published: 01 September 2022
... Neale Hurston ( 1943 : 450) describes as an omnipresent force on the plantation that “helped the slaves endure” through laughter and song; an Ethiopian flag and a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, signaling “a whole century of political strife” (Conner 2004 : 178); voided life insurance policies, decrying...
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The Plantation Countermelodies of Dunbar and Du Bois: Writing Agropolitical Subjecthood in the Nadir

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Benjamin Child
American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 557–586.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7722128
Published: 01 September 2019
..., and culmination of Western culture: “She gossiped with old Herodotus across the earth to the black and blameless Ethiopians”; she is on the scene with Demosthenes, Cornelia, “the drunken Goths”; visits “the Paris of Clovis, and St. Louis”; weeps with the prophet Jeremiah; and clasps hands with Mary of Scotland...
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Tender Revisions: Harryette Mullen's Trimmings and S * PeRM ** K * T

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Deborah Mix
American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 65–92.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-1-65
Published: 01 March 2005
... for the eyes. They starve for all the things we crave Here Mullen positions the model-as-clothes-hanger to jostle the figure of the starving Ethiopian child. Because the poem doesn’t identify whether the ‘‘Iron maidens’’ are stick-thin models or stick- thin famine victims, readers must consider both...
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Our Phillis, Ourselves

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Joanna Brooks
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 1–28.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-067
Published: 01 March 2010
... England. The largest known order for her Poems came out of Newport, Rhode Island, center of the regional slave trade and home to active evangelical women’s networks, an “Ethiopian Society,” and independent African American Sunday schools hosted in the home of Sarah Osborn, who was white...
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“I Want a Real Coon”: Mark Twain and Late-Nineteenth-Century Ethnic Caricature

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Henry B. Wonham
American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 117–152.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-117
Published: 01 March 2000
... the most popular coon songof the era, Ernest Hogan’s ‘‘All Coons Look Alike to Me’’ (1896). The nar- rator explains that a ‘‘songof passingpopularity tells that all members of the ethiopian division ‘look alike.’ Pink...
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Garden Variety: Botany and Multiplicity in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Abolitionism

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Mary Kuhn
American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 489–516.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3149345
Published: 01 September 2015
... for considering race in botanical terms. He tells Anne, “The Ethiopian race is a slow-growing plant, like the aloe . . . but I hope some of these days, they’ll come into flower, and I think, if they ever do, the blossom- ing will be gorgeous” (328). He then goes on to insist on a classifica- tory...
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