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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 213–215.
Published: 01 March 2011
... genre of anti-
slavery literature” that emerged from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century
freedom suits. Chronologically framed by the landmark British case of Somer-
set v. Stewart (1772) and the U.S. case Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), the study
analyzes the “legal stories” that coalesced...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 892–894.
Published: 01 December 2006
...Rafael Pérez-Torres Duke University Press 2006 Narratives of Greater Mexico: Essays on Chicano Literary History, Genre, and Borders . By Héctor Calderón. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press. 2004. 312 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.95. Life in Search of Readers: Reading...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 61–89.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Hannah Walser Abstract This essay analyzes the discourse of the fugitive slave advertisement (FSA) to argue that these texts form what I call a “genre of personhood.” Centered on physical and behavioral descriptions of escaped slaves, FSAs offer a window into the heuristics that slaveholders used...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 59–90.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Jean M. Lutes Abstract The newspaper advice column has shaped the American imagination in unacknowledged ways. Using Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) as a lens into a wily, underestimated genre, I juxtapose West’s riff on the newspaper advice column with readings of the real thing. I...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 836–838.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Habiba Ibrahim Real Folks: Race and Genre in the Great Depression . By Retman Sonnet . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2011 . ix , 322 pp. Cloth , $89.95 ; paper, $24.95 . Darkening Mirrors: Imperial Representation in Depression-Era African American Performance...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 445–472.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Rebecca Evans Abstract This essay argues that contemporary African American novels turn to the gothic in order to dramatize the uncanny infrastructural and spatial afterlives of the plantation through a literary strategy it identifies as geomemory : a genre friction between mimetic and gothic modes...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 194–196.
Published: 01 March 2002
... of
domestic, gothic, and detective modes. In this labeling we see one of her key—
and one of her most theoretically engaging—preoccupations: close attention
to both the formal and ideological elements of genre, and what happens to
those elements when genres merge to express historical (especially gender...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 866–868.
Published: 01 December 2001
... and
Kete set out to excavate literary genres that have flown under the radar of
most literary-historical grand narratives of the American nineteenth century,
genres that occupied spaces coded as more intimate and private than the pub-
lic arena of the novel.
For Hamilton, the missing genre in our...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 222–223.
Published: 01 March 2000
...-
istic genres of this poetry: the child elegy, the epitaph as exemplar of funer-
ary art, and the ‘‘language’’ of flowers. She positions Dickinson in relation
to selected contemporaries (Lydia H. Sigourney, Frances Sargent Osgood...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 450–454.
Published: 01 June 2003
...
the short-story cycle as a genre in which individual chapters can be read and
even published as stand-alone stories that take on additional layers of mean-
ing, however, when read within the context of the whole volume. While...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 March 2004
...Sarah Robbins Duke University Press 2004 Sarah Periodizing Authorship, Characterizing Genre:
Robbins Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Benevolent
Literacy Narratives
The favored class of society wrote Catharine
Maria Sedgwick in 1848, ‘‘owe...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 35–58.
Published: 01 March 2021
...) was a groundbreaking early classic in the genre, and the contemporary philosopher Colin Koopman has advanced the conversation with stunning insight in How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person (2019). The loudest critic of “the mathematization of economics” is a prominent economist herself...
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Published: 01 June 2020
Figure 1 A visualization of the similarities of “fiction” to other genres in the Crisis , 1911–17. In 1913, “articles,” “letters,” and “poetry” became more similar to “fiction,” before separating again. The scale, 0 to 1, indicates the degree of dissimilarity or similarity, respectively. Figure
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Published: 01 June 2020
Figure 2 A visualization of the similarities of “articles” and “letters” to other genres in the Crisis , 1911–17. “Articles” and “letters” share a high degree of similarity. Figure courtesy of author
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Published: 01 June 2020
Figure 3 A comparison of the race topic (“negro white people men man negroes race”) across four genres shows that it was most prevalent in “letters.” Figure courtesy of author
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 331–354.
Published: 01 June 2011
...David M. Higgins Higgins argues that the depth of science fiction's engagement with imperial themes allows the genre to function as a critical literature of empire. As a literary mode engaged with imperial dream-work, science fiction addresses the operations of imperialism more fully than any other...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 391–416.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Jamin Creed Rowan Abstract This essay suggests that hard-boiled crime fiction in the United States has developed the kind of “deep infrastructural ethic” that John Durham Peters says is present in much modern thought. The essay attempts to illuminate the genre’s infrastructural ethic and its...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 361–389.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Monica Hanna Abstract Some of the most compelling and widely consumed US Latin@ literature being produced at the turn of the twenty-first century is literary journalism in the form of the chronicle, a transnational and transhistorical genre that draws on US and Latin American literary traditions...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 695–721.
Published: 01 December 2016
.... This essay theorizes how the novel genre functions within these publics by reconsidering the literary career of William Hill Brown, best known as the author of The Power of Sympathy (1789). Reading his lesser-known writings, I argue that Brown was an intellectual for a prominent network—often referred...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 271–304.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Michael C. Cohen Cohen excavates the social history of the contraband song, a genre of poetry and music popular during the American Civil War. Written in the voices of “contrabands,” former slaves living under the protection of the Union army, contraband songs emerged in the intersections...
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