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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 193–195.
Published: 01 March 2011
.... Neither Fugitive nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel. By Edlie L. Wong. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2009. viii, 337 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $24.00. Book Reviews
Beyond Douglass: New Perspectives on Early African American Literature. Ed...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 587–617.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Julius B. Fleming, Jr. Abstract This essay examines the cultural and political work of the Free Southern Theater, specifically how this company used plantations, porches, and cotton fields in order to build a radical black southern theater in the civil rights movement. Staging plays like Samuel...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 681–708.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Holly Jackson This essay aims to restore the vital intellectual and political movement of free love to the study of American literature and culture, offering a brief overview of its major currents and analyzing three examples from a neglected archive of free-love novels, Mary Gove Nichols's Mary...
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in “Multiplied without Number”: Lynching, Statistics, and Visualization in Ida B. Wells, Mark Twain, and W. E. B. Du Bois
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Published: 01 June 2021
Figure 1 Georgia Plate, “Slaves and Free Negroes.” Library of Congress
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 196–198.
Published: 01 March 2011
... and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2009. vii, 210 pp. $24.95. Horace Greeley's “New-York Tribune”: Civil War–Era Socialism and the Crisis of Free Labor. By Adam Tuchinsky. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2010. xv, 312 pp. $59.95. Book Reviews
Beyond Douglass: New...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 127–152.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Lance Newman In the 1850s, Frederick Douglass set out to nurture emergent antislavery commitments within the most advanced political milieu of the antebellum decade, the Free Soil movement. Douglass developed a protoenvironmentalist critique of capitalism's alienation of workers from the land...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 461–488.
Published: 01 September 2010
... voices of children, slaves, and other marginalized people. Duane recovers and analyzes the records of the New York African Free School in the 1810s and 1820s, an archive that features the work of the first generation of black children to inherit freedom in New York City. She argues that the scripted...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 387–390.
Published: 01 June 2020
..., and literary narratives. In chronicling the moralizing self-presentations and foreign policy interventions of merchants, missionaries, and diplomats, he offers a genealogy of free trade imperialism by going back to the time when the United States, driven by free trade as an embodiment of its recent...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 737–765.
Published: 01 December 2014
... or punishment for that love. But though they analogize that
kind of love to “bareback” (condom-free) sex between men, Bersani and
Phillips do not elaborate on the role of bodily acts. It does seem signifi-
cant that they cite St. Catherine of Genoa’s inability, as a follower of pure
love...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 613–615.
Published: 01 September 2009
... myth. For Doyle, this idea provides an
important opportunity to rethink the literary history of the novel in the Atlan-
tic world beginning in the seventeenth century. To pull the rhetoric of free-
dom down to earth, Doyle does not begin with ex-slaves’ claims for freedom in
slave narratives...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 638–640.
Published: 01 September 2002
... twen-
tieth century. The scholars who created the revival—and Spark dissects the
theories of all of them—wrote in an atmosphere in which free thought was
inhibited by the competing values of individualism and order. According to
Spark, these men both supported and were threatened by social policies...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 191–193.
Published: 01 March 2011
..., ceded their
concrete sites of political engagement (taverns, town halls) in exchange for
abstract horizons of national belonging, mediated by state-sanctioned insti-
tutions that seemed free of the government (the temperance movement, for
instance). Lost social relations survived only...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 7–34.
Published: 01 March 2009
... (1836). It explores material that has been largely left out of the antislavery story: the cases brought by abolitionists to free slaves who had traveled with their masters into free territory. Wong's essay reconstructs the records of these cases from popular literature, newsprint, and legal pamphlets...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 281–307.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Todd Carmody Abstract This essay traces the cultural legacy of the Port Royal Experiment, the Civil War–era social experiment in free labor conducted by Union forces on the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia. Whereas literary and cultural historians typically focus on the “discovery...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 811–839.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The essay argues for a notion of “adaptive belonging” as a formal and political strategy for coping with neoliberal policies’ hemispheric shift. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 transnationalism gender neoliberalism border Latina and Latino...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 255–278.
Published: 01 June 2017
... open access and have operated in opposition to hierarchically controlled content distribution and educational systems. Both analog and digital forms of open-access woman of color pedagogy promote the free circulation of knowledge and call attention to the literary and social labor of networked...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 2018
... introduced into the literary landscape a complicated view of what readers and writers increasingly saw as a suspect “free” market. Writers such as Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, and John Greenleaf Whittier imagined a world of goods haunted by the touch of enslaved laborers—goods...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 527–554.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Jake Mattox According to his 1868 biography, in 1852 Martin Delany had been elected mayor of the Nicaraguan town of San Juan del Norte, a port attracting gold rush travelers, international capitalists, canal engineers, Miskito Indians, free African Americans, and British subjects. This claim...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 83–109.
Published: 01 March 2018
... necessary to Tom’s development, always leaps beyond and in the way of efforts to produce a free, individual subject. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 slavery play Mark Twain minor bodies fugitivity escape Despite the fact that in 1894 Mark Twain would describe the cat...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 263–293.
Published: 01 June 2019
...Michele Currie Navakas Abstract Coral circulated through the everyday lives of antebellum women and men (free and enslaved) as beads, necklaces, bracelets, reef specimens, and other objects. And antebellum coral was almost always more than merely ornamental. Coral has captivated people, across many...
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