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The Floating Icon and the Fluid Text: Rereading the Narrative of Sojourner Truth

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John Ernest
American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 459–486.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-022
Published: 01 September 2006
.... The Narrative of Sojourner Truth is rarely mentioned as a text that requires informed interpretation, and perhaps it is not studied because Truthdidnotwriteitherself.Thefewsustainedscholarlyreadings of the editions prepared by Olive Gilbert and Frances Titus focus on the problem of authorship, viewing...
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Affective Geographies: Sojourner Truth's Narrative , Feminism, and the Ethical Bind of Sentimentalism

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Naomi Greyser
American Literature (2007) 79 (2): 275–305.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-002
Published: 01 June 2007
... of the narrative was created between 1846 and 1850, when Olive Gilbert, a friend of Truth’s neighbor in the relatively short-lived communal Association for Education and Industry in Northampton, Massachu- setts, met with Truth, who did not read or write, to listen to her stories and take down...
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Remembering World War I in America A Shadow on Our Hearts: Soldier-Poetry, Morality, and the American War in Vietnam The Hell of War Comes Home: Imaginative Texts from the Conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq Bodies at War: Genealogies of Militarism in Chicana Literature and Culture

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Stephen Cushman
American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 172–175.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8056672
Published: 01 March 2020
... Gilbert . Amherst : Univ. of Massachusetts Press . 2018 . xii, 370 pp. Cloth, $90.00 ; paper, $32.95 ; e-book available. The Hell of War Comes Home: Imaginative Texts from the Conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq . By Owen W. Gilman Jr. Jackson : Univ. Press of Mississippi . 2018...
View articletitled, Remembering World War I in America A Shadow on Our Hearts: Soldier-Poetry, Morality, and the American War in Vietnam The Hell of War Comes Home: Imaginative Texts from the Conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq Bodies at War: Genealogies of Militarism in Chicana Literature and Culture View PDF for article titled, Remembering World War I in America A Shadow on Our Hearts: Soldier-Poetry, Morality, and the American War in Vietnam The Hell of War Comes Home: Imaginative Texts from the Conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq Bodies at War: Genealogies of Militarism in Chicana Literature and Culture
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Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s; Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Postwar American Culture

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Thomas W. Devine
American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 414–416.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-011
Published: 01 June 2008
...Thomas W. Devine © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s . By James Gilbert. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2005. x, 269 pp. $39.00. Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Postwar American Culture...
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By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority; Cradle of Liberty: Race, the Child, and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois

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Jeannine Marie DeLombard
American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 407–409.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-008
Published: 01 June 2008
... into literary cultures that multi-author books might less thoroughly define. David Tomkins, University of Southern California DOI 10.1215/00029831-2008-010 Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s. By James Gilbert. Chi- cago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2005. x, 269 pp. $39.00. Relative...
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Resisting History: Gender, Modernity, and Authorship in William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty; Journeyman's Road: Modern Blues Lives from Faulkner's Mississippi to Post-9/11 New York

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Melanie R. Benson
American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 409–411.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-009
Published: 01 June 2008
.... David Tomkins, University of Southern California DOI 10.1215/00029831-2008-010 Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s. By James Gilbert. Chi- cago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2005. x, 269 pp. $39.00. Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Postwar American Culture...
View articletitled, Resisting History: Gender, Modernity, and Authorship in William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty; Journeyman's Road: Modern Blues Lives from Faulkner's Mississippi to Post-9/11 New York View PDF for article titled, Resisting History: Gender, Modernity, and Authorship in William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty; Journeyman's Road: Modern Blues Lives from Faulkner's Mississippi to Post-9/11 New York
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Hart Crane: After His Lights; Frank O'Hara: The Poetics of Coterie; Art and Memory in the Work of Elizabeth Bishop

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David Tomkins
American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 411–414.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-010
Published: 01 June 2008
.... David Tomkins, University of Southern California DOI 10.1215/00029831-2008-010 Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s. By James Gilbert. Chi- cago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2005. x, 269 pp. $39.00. Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Postwar American Culture...
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Public Native America: Tribal Self-Representation in Museums, Powwows, and Casinos; Disturbing Indians: The Archaeology of Southern Fiction; Matter, Magic, and Spirit: Representing Indian and African American Belief; Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country

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Michael A. Elliott
American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 416–419.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-012
Published: 01 June 2008
.... David Tomkins, University of Southern California DOI 10.1215/00029831-2008-010 Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s. By James Gilbert. Chi- cago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2005. x, 269 pp. $39.00. Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Postwar American Culture...
View articletitled, Public Native America: Tribal Self-Representation in Museums, Powwows, and Casinos; Disturbing Indians: The Archaeology of Southern Fiction; Matter, Magic, and Spirit: Representing Indian and African American Belief; Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country View PDF for article titled, Public Native America: Tribal Self-Representation in Museums, Powwows, and Casinos; Disturbing Indians: The Archaeology of Southern Fiction; Matter, Magic, and Spirit: Representing Indian and African American Belief; Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country
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Brown on Brown: Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity; With Her Machete in Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians; “Shakin' Up” Race and Gender: Intercultural Connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano Narratives and Culture (1965–1995)

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Ralph Rodriguez
American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 419–422.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-013
Published: 01 June 2008
... for Masculinity in the 1950s. By James Gilbert. Chi- cago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2005. x, 269 pp. $39.00. Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Postwar American Culture. By Rachel Devlin. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2005. ix, 257 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95. James...
View articletitled, Brown on Brown: Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity; With Her Machete in Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians; “Shakin' Up” Race and Gender: Intercultural Connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano Narratives and Culture (1965–1995) View PDF for article titled, Brown on Brown: Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity; With Her Machete in Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians; “Shakin' Up” Race and Gender: Intercultural Connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano Narratives and Culture (1965–1995)
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Eating the Black Body: Miscegenation as Sexual Consumption in African American Literature and Culture; Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature; Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona in Post-Soul America

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Joseph Helminski
American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 422–424.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-014
Published: 01 June 2008
... for Masculinity in the 1950s. By James Gilbert. Chi- cago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2005. x, 269 pp. $39.00. Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Postwar American Culture. By Rachel Devlin. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2005. ix, 257 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95. James...
View articletitled, Eating the Black Body: Miscegenation as Sexual Consumption in African American Literature and Culture; Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature; Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona in Post-Soul America View PDF for article titled, Eating the Black Body: Miscegenation as Sexual Consumption in African American Literature and Culture; Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature; Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona in Post-Soul America
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Inventing Black Women: African American Women Poets and Self-Representation, 1877–2000; Writing the Roaming Subject: The Biotext in Canadian Literature

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Taylor Hagood
American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 425–426.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-015
Published: 01 June 2008
.... David Tomkins, University of Southern California DOI 10.1215/00029831-2008-010 Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s. By James Gilbert. Chi- cago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2005. x, 269 pp. $39.00. Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Postwar American Culture...
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Atlantic Republic: The American Tradition in English Literature; Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform; Henry James Goes to Paris; Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time

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Allen Hibbard
American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 427–430.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-016
Published: 01 June 2008
.... David Tomkins, University of Southern California DOI 10.1215/00029831-2008-010 Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s. By James Gilbert. Chi- cago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2005. x, 269 pp. $39.00. Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Postwar American Culture...
View articletitled, Atlantic Republic: The American Tradition in English Literature; Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform; Henry James Goes to Paris; Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time View PDF for article titled, Atlantic Republic: The American Tradition in English Literature; Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform; Henry James Goes to Paris; Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time
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“Freedom with a Vengeance”: Choosing Kin in Antislavery Literature and Law

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Edlie Wong
American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 7–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-049
Published: 01 March 2009
... Gilbert’s dramatization of Sojourner Truth’s courtroom battles to reclaim her son Peter, who insisted, in the con- trarian fashion of fictional Topsy, that he just “grow’d.”46 Peter’s case, tried in 1828, predates the Massachusetts freedom suits of Med and Anson, yet it illustrates the discursive...
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On (Not) Waiting for Godot : Absurdity and Action in Mississippi

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Paige McGinley
American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 151–167.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10345449
Published: 01 March 2023
... – 32 . Dent Thomas C. , Schechner Richard , and Moses Gilbert , eds. 1969 . The Free Southern Theater by the Free Southern Theater . New York : Bobbs-Merrill . Fleming Julius . 2022 . Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project...
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Murder by Madman: Criminal Responsibility, Law, and Judgment in Wieland

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Laura H. Korobkin
American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 721–750.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-4-721
Published: 01 December 2000
... legal works, Sir William Blackstone’s Commen- taries on the Laws of England (1765–1769) and Sir Geoffrey Gilbert’s The Law of Evidence (1754).16 By transforming what were meant as theoretical examples into fully...
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“A Face of Anguish”: Pain and Portraiture in the Civil War Hospital

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Jess Libow
American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 187–212.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11218872
Published: 01 June 2024
... A. , Lydiatt William M. , and Gilbert Mark A. 2010 . “Portraits of Care: Medical Research through Portraiture .” Medical Humanities 36 , no. 1 : 5 – 13 . Alcott Louisa May . 1863 . Hospital Sketches . Boston : James Redpath . Alkhaifi Muna , Clayton Adam...
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Brief Mention

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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 663–670.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-039
Published: 01 September 2010
... and extends to numerous media. Along the way, this text turns to postmodern literature, science fiction film, role-playing games, and electronic literature. Brief Mention 669 Collections Gilbert and Gubar’s “The Madwoman in the Attic” after...
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Speculation and Scientific Method: Thomas Harriot’s Virginia IPO

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Jennifer Rae Greeson
American Literature 11792403.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11792403
Published: 07 March 2025
... (Ruby 2001: 173 205, 257 59). Elizabeth next had granted Ralegh s elder half-brother Humphrey Gilbert a six-year royal patent for a new scheme: establishment of an American colonial outpost, for which he was authorized to be governor. Gilbert s voyage in 1579, in which Ralegh commanded the most...
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Identity and Representation in US Comics

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Joshua Abraham Kopin
American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 439–448.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4564370
Published: 01 June 2018
..., although it is difficult to overstate the importance of Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, and Mario Hernandez (fondly known to comics fans as “Los Bros”) and their 1980s comics anthology series Love and Rockets on both Latina/o comics and US alternative comics more generally, their presence here...
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Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a Literature Mestizos Come Home! Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity

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Bernadine Hernández
American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 154–156.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8878590
Published: 01 March 2021
... of reading identity politics into narratives that are by or about Latinos/as. In a formalist reading of narratives by Oscar Zeta Acosta, Gloria Anzaldúa, Piri Thomas, Giannina Braschi, Gilbert Hernandez, Sandra Cisneros, and Junot Díaz, González foregrounds four kinds of narrative features in his case study...
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