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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 409–411.
Published: 01 June 2014
... . By Hoffman Tyler . Ann Arbor : Univ. of Michigan Press . 2011 . 271 pp. $45.00 . Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel . By Kurnick David . Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univ. Press . 2011 . x , 254 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper , $32.50 . Pioneer Performances: Staging...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 844–847.
Published: 01 December 2009
... and Presidential Government . By Sean McCann. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2008. xiv, 248 pp. $35.00. Identity and the Failure of America: From Thomas Jefferson to the War on Terror . By John Michael. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2008. viii, 301 pp. Cloth, $67.50; paper, $22.50...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 426–428.
Published: 01 June 2019
...Sean Metzger A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure across the Pacific . By Hua Hsu . Cambridge, MA : Harvard Univ. Press . 2016 . 276 pp. Cloth, $29.95 . Transpacific Community: America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Cultural Network . By Richard Jean So . New...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 385–416.
Published: 01 June 2019
...Jason Gladstone Abstract This essay argues that what most characterizes the late twentieth century is not, as is often assumed, the threat posed to the human by technology but rather that imposed by technology’s failure. The essay does so by tracking the development of a postwar literalism...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 673–675.
Published: 01 September 2012
... War II American Fiction . By Schryer Stephen . New York : Columbia Univ. Press . 2011 . vii , 278 pp. Cloth , $79.50 ; paper , $26.50 . Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America . By Ackerman Alan . New Haven : Yale Univ...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 821–849.
Published: 01 December 2017
... dismissed: do eighteenth-century media failures raise doubts about our ability today to counteract the overnight production of “fake news” and other lies that are consumed almost as quickly as they are manufactured? As a point of transfer between contemporary and antiquarian uses of slow media...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 301–330.
Published: 01 June 2016
.... Ferguson (1896). The root of this shared logic is a pragmatist theory of personhood that, first elucidated in The Common Law , is itself a remnant of racial citizenship in the United States. Pragmatism’s failure to address practically the racial discord of its era, I argue, is inseparable from its...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 203–231.
Published: 01 June 2008
... economic in nature—the essay examines the failure of interest-thinking to capture the most important features of conviction or belief (religious or not). To the extent that secular civil society relies on interest-thinking to manage conflicting beliefs, secularism as we know it may be limited...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 689–717.
Published: 01 December 2011
... that despite the rhetorical failures in both texts that ensue from Whipple's complicated race politics, contemporary scholars of American literature should not ignore the biographies' sociopolitical and economic underpinnings, as the latter provide crucial insights into the study of early African American...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 645–680.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Sarah Rivett From 1790 to 1810, Thomas Jefferson inaugurated a massive effort to collect and preserve native languages. Compiling as many languages as he could, Jefferson worked to solve the question of Indian origins. More interesting for its failures than for what it achieved, the Indian...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 181–209.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., are marked by the installment of a series of rule-based interactions that modulate affect within the sociotechnical mechanics of state-sanctioned racism to enable the proper flow of both play and mobility. However, through failure, the game also reveals gamification to be an incomplete diagram of control...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 613–641.
Published: 01 September 2018
... to become scapegoats for the failure to achieve racial unity in the face of white domination. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Toni Morrison black nationalism black capitalism black feminism domestic violence In the May 1981 issue of Essence magazine, Toni Morrison published...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 585–612.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Kristin Grogan Abstract This essay explores the relationship between Langston Hughes’s 1930s poetry and the Soviet avant-garde theater. It argues that the constructivist theater provides an aesthetic framework through which to read Hughes’s radical poetry. Often read as an artistic failure...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 281–307.
Published: 01 June 2020
... Islands—the “failure” of the Port Royal Experiment—gives way to the consolidation of “black culture,” a success of a different kind. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 free labor disability sociology Porgy Sea Islands As Brian Russell Roberts and Michelle Ann Stephens (2017...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 172–175.
Published: 01 March 2020
... . . . and was slow to abate” (xv). Licursi’s book includes useful bibliographies of personal narratives and novels that bolster her case for the failure of the United States to “craft a public memory of the war” (xxii). There is no denying that awareness of World War I in the United States trails knowledge...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 651–654.
Published: 01 September 2016
... claims of colorblind equal opportunity and a tokenized minority difference with persistent material inequalities, racism, and the strategic exclusions of a criminalized poor? But if African Americanists have sought to account for Obama’s “failure” to further black liberation, as Erica Edwards contends...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 898–901.
Published: 01 December 2019
..., on the other hand, repeatedly demonstrating that Wilde’s sublime suffering can never be adequately appreciated. Wilde’s pedagogy is what Halberstam calls, in his book of the same name, The Queer Art of Failure (2011), but on Ohi’s gorgeous reading—he reopens the throats of these texts to listen...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 733–761.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., such as sustainable employment based on merit, and even depends on systemic failures along lines of difference. 6 Jodi Melamed ( 2016 ) observes that the conflation of neoliberal institutionality with totality, as seen in quit lit, can make liberalism look like freedom. 7 Melamed cautions that critiques...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 513–537.
Published: 01 September 2023
... to be subjected to US racial-sexual violence after being “freed,” they are also persistent reminders of the nation’s failures to uphold its ideals. America’s losses in the Vietnam War and its attempts at redemption produce the conditions for melancholia. 2 The paradox that a national culture based...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 885–887.
Published: 01 December 2000
... every failure
in excruciating detail and hypothesizes a Freudian repetition-compulsion at
one point, but psychological explanation of Mailer’s behavior is not a priority
in this text. Rather, Dearborn...
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