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Mavericks on the Border: The Early Southwest in Historical Fiction and Film; The Medicine Line: Life and Death on a North American Borderland
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 187–190.
Published: 01 March 2002
... period through early modernism, Catherine Ross Nickerson ex-
pands our knowledge of the historical progression of detective fiction and pro-
vides invaluable insights into the ways that progression intersected with con-
temporaneous gender and class concerns. The received wisdom has had...
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Revising Ho Chi Minh: Diasporic Historical Fiction in The Book of Salt and The Zenith
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 357–383.
Published: 01 June 2019
... with a mallet is an indicting clue against Le Duc Tho, who was notoriously known as Sau Bua, or Sau the Hammer, “for his toughness in dealing with his colleagues” (Duiker 2000 , 505). In her historical fiction, Duong uncovers a shrouded crime to dispute official state historiography that glorifies Le Duc Tho...
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Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 908–910.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Aaron Kashtan Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics . By Kate Polak . Columbus : Ohio State Univ. Press . 2017 . xiii, 238 pp. Cloth, $134.95 ; paper, $29.95 ; e-book, $19.95 . Movie Comics: Page to Screen/Screen to Page . By Blair Davis...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 533–536.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Janet Dean [email protected] Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge City: Re-creating the Frontier West . By Kevin Britz and Roger L. Nichols , Norman : Univ. of Oklahoma Press . 2018 . xiii, 266 pp. Cloth, $32.95 ; e-book available. Fictions of Western American...
View articletitled, Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge City: Re-creating the Frontier West <span class="search-highlight">Fictions</span> of Western American Domesticity: Indian, Mexican, and Anglo Women in Print Culture, 1850–1950 Failed Frontiersmen: White Men and Myth in the Post-Sixties American <span class="search-highlight">Historical</span> Romance
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Past Presentisms: Suffering Soldiers, Benjaminian Ruins, and the Discursive Foundations of Early U.S. Historical Novels
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 29–55.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Joseph J. Letter Letter investigates the impact of the present in early historical fictions and how that present is manifested in the elaborate allegorical structures of the first popular novels to emerge after the War of 1812. Specifically, the figure of the suffering Revolutionary soldier...
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The Unacknowledged War: Dunbar’s History of White Revisionism
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 59–85.
Published: 01 March 2021
... Dunbar’s grievously understudied 1901 novel The Fanatics , a historical fiction of the war years that focuses on the white North and argues that the Unionists who battled the Confederacy did so only because they wrongly believed that the war’s purpose had nothing to do with enslaved Black Americans...
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Strangely Interested: The Work of Historical Fantasy
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 137–157.
Published: 01 March 2015
... surveys contemporary fictions of alternate history, particularly Philip Roth’s The Plot against America ( 2004 ). The essay contends that historical fantasy offers a particular mode of engagement with the past—one that steers a middle course between nationalist chauvinism and revisionist debunking. ©...
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“My Whole Life I’ve Been on the Run”: Fugitivity as a Postracial Trope in Red Dead Redemption 2
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 159–179.
Published: 01 March 2022
... with historically and geographically racialized others through a fugitive relationship to space. While Rockstar, as a video game studio, may not see itself explicitly intervening in a racialized and racializing political imaginary in its fictional worldbuilding, the kinesthetic, narrative, and cartographic...
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Fictionality Risen: Early America, the Common Core Curriculum, and How We Argue About Fiction Today
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 225–253.
Published: 01 June 2017
... educational value can help us better understand today’s debates about fiction’s role in the classroom, because they reveal just how much is taken for granted in our contemporary arguments about fiction. The article argues that recent work on fictionality (and on historical poetics generally) allows us to come...
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Organic Shrapnel: Affect and Aesthetics in September 11 Fiction
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 153–174.
Published: 01 March 2011
... be sites for the production
of challenging bodily attitudes and responses toward contemporary
political realities.
Gray’s claim that September 11 fiction should mirror the upheaval
of the post-9/11 historical moment aesthetically is based on the now
commonly held notion...
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“Be Cautious of the Word `Rebel'”: Race, Revolution, and Transnational History in Martin Delany's Blake; or, The Huts of America
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 153–179.
Published: 01 March 2009
... the nuanced relationship between novelistic and historical writing. In the process, Doolen challenges the standard chronology of African American literary history in which abolitionism's political, rhetorical, and formulaic constraints supposedly hindered the development of a fictional tradition prior...
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Unsentimental Historicizing: The Neo-Slave Narrative Tradition and the Refusal of Feeling
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 115–143.
Published: 01 March 2021
... (a type of historical novel) is linked to sentimental abolitionist literature, in that both kinds of fiction “concerned themselves with the sentimental properties attached to race.” Rebecca Wanzo ( 2009 : 80) points out that the neo-slave narrative “has evolved from the tradition of the slave narrative...
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“Ain’t One Limb Enough?” Historicizing Disability in the American Novel
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 245–274.
Published: 01 June 2014
... with the historical circumstances and the generic conventions of the early national novel. Furthermore, when impaired figures entered American fiction in the late 1810s and 1820s, their bodies were not stigmatized, but rather crippled bodies most often signified a legible and laudable history of patriotism. I...
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The Race of Machines: Blackness and Prosthetics in Early American Science Fiction
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 553–584.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Taylor Evans Abstract The steam man is a trope of early US science fiction, one inaugurated by the first dime novel Edisonade, Edward Ellis’s 1868 story The Steam Man of the Prairies . Focusing on early steam man stories as well as the historical origin of the trope—Zadoc Dederick’s 1868 invention...
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On Perspective and Value: Black Urbanism, Black Interiors, and Public Housing Fiction
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 527–549.
Published: 01 September 2022
... fiction is an understudied subgenre of the black urban narrative that, when surveyed for its historical context, phenomenological perspectives, and diverse literary style, widens literary urbanism’s representation of the structure of feeling within and regarding the built environment of urban space...
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Angels in (Mexican) America
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 683–711.
Published: 01 December 2014
... on such
observations, the methodologies of literary studies may offer some
inroads to the historical study of secularism, because secularism is like
literature in the sense that each is reliant for its existence on material
structures that its fictional narrative contents may belie, yet each is pal-
pable...
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The Dream of Property: Law and Environment in William T. Vollmann’s Dying Grass and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead
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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 705–731.
Published: 01 December 2022
... imprint on the environment: revisionist historical fiction that uses an array of voices, archival materials, and natural settings to undermine the legal fantasy of justified property in land. Silko’s Almanac offers another way, presenting a counternarrative that imagines the replacement of the settler...
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Free Soil and the Abolitionist Forests of Frederick Douglass's “The Heroic Slave”
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 127–152.
Published: 01 March 2009
... narrative’s generic emphasis on passive suffering, Doug-
lass experimented with the form of the historical romance in “The
Heroic Slave,” adopting the universalizing discourse of republicanism
to represent a fictionalized Madison Washington as a Romantic hero
fighting in a latter-day American...
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“Just Like Home”: Richard Wright, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the New Deal
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 61–86.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Susan Louise Edmunds This essay reads Richard Wright’s Native Son (1940) against Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), the New Deal, and the intervening history of white women’s sentimental activism. It argues that Native Son is a work of domestic fiction that self-consciously engages...
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Picturing Poverty in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 439–472.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Lori Merish Abstract “Picturing Poverty” addresses the striking absence of discussion of poverty in US cultural criticism by turning to the archive to examine historically significant and influential, but previously neglected, early photographs of the poor alongside more familiar literary texts...
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