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Biopower, Space, and Race in Asian American Studies
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 839–854.
Published: 01 December 2016
... a precarious space where people are left to survive or die, a situation that is strikingly similar to the fate of B-Mor. Fan, like AnnLee, is mobilized as a cipher and a means to create interrelations. In contrast to AnnLee, the retelling of Fan’s tale doesn’t intensify a sense of alienation, but rather...
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The Irish Voice in America: 250 Years of Irish-American Fiction
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 433–434.
Published: 01 June 2001
...Enda Duffy 2d ed. By Charles Fanning. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky. 1999. x, 448 pp. Paper, $24.95. 2001 Book Reviews 433
Southern literary studies, is, to Kreyling...
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Identity and Representation in US Comics
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 439–448.
Published: 01 June 2018
... Ramzi Fawaz’s The New Mutants (2016), Jeffrey Brown’s Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans (2001), and Tahneer Oksman’s How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses? (2016), has taken extraordinary advantage of this possibility. One of the important consequences of this interdisciplinary...
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Reconsidering Lost Opportunities for Diverse Representation
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 73–102.
Published: 01 March 2022
... representation, I draw on queer game studies, fan studies, and speculative design to outline an approach for analyzing diverse character possibilities that never were but could have been. I investigate evidence of frustrated potential in game design by first analyzing the much-discussed developmental history...
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Thinking Outside the Book Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound What Is Your Quest? From Adventure Games to Interactive Books
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 630–632.
Published: 01 September 2015
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tive Books offers a fascinating, accessible, exceedingly well-written genre his-
tory of adventure games. Her account proceeds chronologically and includes
information about videogame designers, companies, and fans. Understanding
632 American Literature
copyright law as well as fan desire...
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Authentic-Deconstructionist Games and Tragic Historiography in Assassin’s Creed III
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 133–158.
Published: 01 March 2022
... these problems, the game opened up space for debate about other perspectives on US history. Once AC3 was finally released, fans were relieved to discover that it was less nationalistic than the marketing campaign had implied. The basic premise of the Assassin’s Creed ( AC ) franchise is that, through...
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Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 434–435.
Published: 01 June 2001
..., Maureen Howard. Fanning places James T. Farrell at the heart of the
tradition, as its greatest stylist and chronicler of working-class lives. He also
has an ear for the striking tale, from Quigley’s The Prophet of the Ruined Abbey...
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Comics Grow Up
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 357–368.
Published: 01 June 2020
... of “lapsed fans or childhood readers” (15) rather than treating it as a place for serious study, requiring particular expertise and comics-specific modes of analysis, and not simply a degraded or inferior mode of prose fiction. In this way Singer persuasively gives voice to, and seeks to dispel, a mood...
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Introduction: Queer about Comics
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 197–219.
Published: 01 June 2018
..., in both its visual and narrative production and its fan communities, are rife and rich. At every moment in their cultural history, comic books have been linked to queerness or to broader questions of sexuality and sexual identity in US society. In the 1930s and 1940s Wonder Woman visually celebrated S-M...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 237–249.
Published: 01 June 2011
... “International Science Fiction Reshelving Day,” slotted
for Atwood’s seventieth birthday on November 18, on which fans of
the science fiction and fantasy genres proposed moving canonical
American Literature, Volume 83, Number 2, June 2011
DOI 10.1215/00029831-1266045 © 2011 by Duke University...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 898–901.
Published: 01 December 2019
... writing of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Afrofuturism, queer film, and new media fan fiction. Lothian opens a can of speculative worms (the end of part 2 is titled “Wormhole”) with which she goes fishing not for utopias and dystopias yet to arrive but for visions of the future already...
View articletitled, Dead Letters Sent: Queer Literary Transmission Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility Circulating Queerness: Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility
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Anxious Academics
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 169–178.
Published: 01 March 2003
... available by the movie Die Hard, Michael sensibly alleges that
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the notion of the ‘‘intellectual as fan’’ mystifies every kind of intellec...
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Racial Disintegration: Biomedical Futurity at the Environmental Limit
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 497–523.
Published: 01 September 2021
...” or solve the problems of systemic racism despite ostensible legal protection (“proved, case by case”). The novel itself serves as a test case for this proposition about individuals making a difference. The picaresque plot follows Fan, a tiny, fifteen-year-old aquaculture diver from B-Mor, as she searches...
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“Where No X-Man Has Gone Before!” Mutant Superheroes and the Cultural Politics of Popular Fantasy in Postwar America
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 355–388.
Published: 01 June 2011
..., and hardcore fans within the comic-book industry struggled over
the appropriate balance between fantasy as pure entertainment and as
a vehicle for social-consciousness raising. This struggle manifested in
popular form through the material output of the industry throughout
the 1970s, as the superhero...
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Inventing Southern Literature
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 432–433.
Published: 01 June 2001
... ed. By Charles
Fanning. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky. 1999. x, 448 pp. Paper, $24.95.
This is a vastly impressive survey of Irish American fiction ranging from the
1760s broadsides of Lawrence Sweeney...
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On the Literary Use of Superheroes; or, Batman and Superman Fistfight in Heaven
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 831–857.
Published: 01 December 2011
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that they are almost invisible until a particular book questions them.
Even a reader minimally familiar with the genre’s stories and conven-
tions will carry some of these invisible generic assumptions.13 Wolk’s
superreaders are the inside audience of fans and collectors at whom
virtually every current...
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Heroism and Comics Form: Feminist and Queer Speculations
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 449–459.
Published: 01 June 2018
... as a “pretty major inspiration” for her own career (quoted on 13). Cremins’s brief mention of fanzines publishing photos of children in Mary Marvel costumes made me wonder about girl fans, as did Beck’s remark in a footnote about how much his daughter and granddaughter enjoyed the series. At the end, Cremins...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 183–186.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of US fan fiction and Japanese dōjinshi , and discussing open-source software development. In all these cases, Roh is most interested in the “struggle between subcultural and canonical texts influenced by constructs such as intellectual property and distribution networks rather than an internal...
View articletitled, American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street Illegal Literature: Toward a Disruptive Creativity The Aesthetics of Middlebrow Fiction: Popular US Novels, Modernism, and Form, 1945–75
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Slavery in American Children’s Literature, 1790–2010 Making Americans: Children’s Literature from 1930 to 1960 Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 403–405.
Published: 01 June 2015
... and the democratic community
ideal. “From time to time,” he writes, “even Pa Ingalls negotiates with neigh-
bors” (5). After the 1950s, Schmidt notes a turn inward and toward the fan-
tastic; we might say the imagination became the new frontier. Insightful,
amusing, and well-written, Making Americans expands...
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Making Queer Asiatic Worlds: Performance and Racial Interaction in North American Visual Novels
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 17–47.
Published: 01 March 2022
...,” with some dere terms far more common in English (presumably for fans of anime and visual novels) than in Japanese ( Fandom.com 2019 ). These archetypes are thus Asiatic in the sense that they use Japanese terms to assign their foreignness, even as there are no ostensible Japanese racial signifiers...
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