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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 666–668.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Douglas Dowland Ghostly Figures: Memory and Belatedness in Postwar American Poetry . By Ann Keniston . Iowa City : Univ. of Iowa Press . 2015 . xii, 240 pp. Paper, $49.95 ; e-book, $49.95 . Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the Course of Health Activism...
Journal Article
American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 501–525.
Published: 01 September 2007
... in which space itself—a room, building,
natural feature, or even an entire town—becomes ghostly and itself
does the haunting. In two unjustly neglected turn-of-the-twentieth-
century tales of the supernatural, Madeline Yale Wynne’s “The Little
Room” (1895) and Elia Wilkinson Peattie’s...
Journal Article
American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 301–330.
Published: 01 June 2016
... bystander, a third self that was also the imagined inheritor of an external standard, became the ghostly agent of discriminatory legislation for jurors who could claim to avoid self-interest. Holmes’s legal formulations in The Common Law legitimated this perspective. By locating Holmes’s legal...
Journal Article
American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 175–184.
Published: 01 March 2011
... to think about the
inherent strangeness of all children.
Stockton begins with a general introduction that catalogs dominant
tropes by which the queer child becomes legible in twentieth-century
literature and culture: the ghostly gay child who haunts the history
of the grown gay man or lesbian...
Journal Article
American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 513–537.
Published: 01 September 2023
... : 239 – 60 . London : Hogarth Press . Gordon Avery . 2008 . Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination. Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . Hartman Saidiya V. 1997 . Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 186–188.
Published: 01 March 2020
... and Freeburg question the analytical methods that have led us to expect that African American literature will offer a sociopolitical or psychological salve at all. In Ghosts of the African Diaspora , Chassot identifies nearly thirty black-authored books published between 1980 and 2005 that feature ghostly...
Journal Article
American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 661–688.
Published: 01 December 2013
... and the Indian: Prose Pieces , 169 – 242 . Delhi : Ravi Dayal . Gilroy Paul . 1993 . The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness . Cambridge : Harvard Univ. Press . Gordon Avery . ( 1996 ) 2008 . Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination . Minneapolis...
Journal Article
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 229–240.
Published: 01 March 2007
... Larsen’s life, perpetuated by earlier biographies that were inter-
ested in telling a “black and white” story about her familial attachments and
racial identity. Throughout, Hutchinson is interested in how Larsen’s experi-
ences connect with her literary productions.
Ghostly Parallels: Robert Penn...
Journal Article
American Literature (2007) 79 (2): 335–361.
Published: 01 June 2007
...-
rison’s Beloved (1987) and Gayl Jones’s Corregidora (1975). Yet one
of the earliest African American writers to draw our attention to this
ghostly history is Pauline Hopkins. The postslavery nation, for Hop-
kins, is inhabited by phantom presences because it does not acknowl-
edge the traumatic...
Journal Article
American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 445–472.
Published: 01 September 2021
... Richie died. Richie, then, is both the ghost of an individual who experienced violence and the ghost of the spatial legacies held within the site of Parchman, and the shifting regimes of violence that the prison represents. The temporal slippage of Richie’s ghostly life lets him teach the reader...
Journal Article
American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 719–747.
Published: 01 December 2004
... sensation-
alism. Usually involving elaborate plots centered around confidence
men and forged bank notes, disputes over property and inheritance,
and violent (often ghostly) encounters between persecutory creditors
and paranoid debtors, the antebellum gothic, more than any other
mode of the period’s...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 637–639.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., and the Making
of the American Century. By Stacey Olster. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2003.
x, 299 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95.
Bob Dylan’s recording Empire Burlesque (1985) makes but one ghostly (paren-
thetical) appearance in Daniel O’Hara’s book of the same title, illustrat-
ing the bad faith...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 639–641.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., $49.95; paper, $19.95.
Bob Dylan’s recording Empire Burlesque (1985) makes but one ghostly (paren-
thetical) appearance in Daniel O’Hara’s book of the same title, illustrat-
ing the bad faith in which the book abounds. O’Hara intends to shock
Americanists into awareness of ‘‘an empire...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 642–644.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., and the Making
of the American Century. By Stacey Olster. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2003.
x, 299 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95.
Bob Dylan’s recording Empire Burlesque (1985) makes but one ghostly (paren-
thetical) appearance in Daniel O’Hara’s book of the same title, illustrat-
ing the bad faith...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 644–646.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., and the Making
of the American Century. By Stacey Olster. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2003.
x, 299 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95.
Bob Dylan’s recording Empire Burlesque (1985) makes but one ghostly (paren-
thetical) appearance in Daniel O’Hara’s book of the same title, illustrat-
ing the bad faith...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 646–648.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., and the Making
of the American Century. By Stacey Olster. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2003.
x, 299 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95.
Bob Dylan’s recording Empire Burlesque (1985) makes but one ghostly (paren-
thetical) appearance in Daniel O’Hara’s book of the same title, illustrat-
ing the bad faith...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 648–651.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., and the Making
of the American Century. By Stacey Olster. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2003.
x, 299 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95.
Bob Dylan’s recording Empire Burlesque (1985) makes but one ghostly (paren-
thetical) appearance in Daniel O’Hara’s book of the same title, illustrat-
ing the bad faith...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 651–653.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., and the Making
of the American Century. By Stacey Olster. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2003.
x, 299 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95.
Bob Dylan’s recording Empire Burlesque (1985) makes but one ghostly (paren-
thetical) appearance in Daniel O’Hara’s book of the same title, illustrat-
ing the bad faith...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 653–655.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., and the Making
of the American Century. By Stacey Olster. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2003.
x, 299 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95.
Bob Dylan’s recording Empire Burlesque (1985) makes but one ghostly (paren-
thetical) appearance in Daniel O’Hara’s book of the same title, illustrat-
ing the bad faith...
Journal Article
American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 807–831.
Published: 01 December 2004
... Brydon imaginatively articulates, tracks
down, and finally appears to confront: the ghostly possibility of the
businessman he might have been, had he succumbed to his father’s
demands, stayed in the United States, and pursued the career in busi-
ness his father desired for him.
But James offers...
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