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Published: 01 June 2019
Figure 4 “Africa and Europe,” with “Africa” holding raw red coral, porcelain figurines by Friedrich Elias Meyer for Meissen Manufactory, c. 1760. Detroit Institute of Arts
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 March 2019
.... This novel, I argue, ultimately suggests a genre of temporality that neither appears as a type of linear time nor ruptures it utterly, and the book implies that temporal suspensions or holds can potentially be useful—not as inherently liberatory but as means of making way for productive disagreement. Within...
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in The Race of Machines: Blackness and Prosthetics in Early American Science Fiction
> American Literature
Published: 01 September 2018
Figure 6 Cover of the first volume of the Frank Reade Library (1892). From the holdings of the Eaton Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, University of California, Riverside
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 455–488.
Published: 01 September 2015
... a history of visual languages that failed to take hold—lost literacies and potential trajectories in American comics. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 comics graphic narratives Yankee Notions nineteenth-century American literature nineteenth-century periodicals References Ball...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 359–385.
Published: 01 June 2015
... argues, may lead to new acts of solidarity between combatants, but they also hold the potential to compound the traumas of combat and produce new acts of violence. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Iraq War Generation Kill military trauma References Appadurai Arjun . 2010...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 61–91.
Published: 01 March 2013
... for literary transcendentalism generally in the wake of our recent critical turn toward “surface reading.” Stephen Best and Sharon Marcus write on the one hand in the journal Representations of the weakening hold that “symptomatic reading” now has on critics who, from the 1970s forward, have accepted...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 587–617.
Published: 01 September 2019
... Beckett’s Waiting for Godot for black southern audiences, the theater challenged a violent structure of time at the heart of global modernity that I call black patience . By this I mean an abiding historical demand for black people to wait: whether in the hold of the slave ship, on the auction block...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 429–455.
Published: 01 September 2020
... in excess of rational-critical public discourse. The comic mode has long been undertheorized in literary and cultural studies of the early United States, yet it holds key insight into the practices of both early national theater and early national politics. By way of example, I offer a comic reading...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 697–706.
Published: 01 December 2020
... attention to how an enslaved condition in which one lacked the right to choose to move or hold still is now being extended to a class of workers deemed essential. References Andone Dakin . 2020 . “ Protests Are Popping Up across the US over Stay-At-Home Restrictions .” CNN , April 17...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 745–757.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Jane F. Thrailkill Abstract People over sixty-five have been singled out as a uniquely vulnerable risk group for the novel coronavirus. Yet the discourse of risk obscures (and exacerbates) socially created dangers of congregate care in the United States: poorly paid workers holding down multiple...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 381–408.
Published: 01 June 2012
.... It argues that Powers’s novel of eco-sickness is a rejoinder to platitudes about connection, awareness, and care that poses the question: Can ethical concern and care for human and nonhuman others take hold without connection? © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Heather Wondrous Strange: Eco...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 141–170.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Long Le-Khac Abstract This essay defines the problem of bildungsroman hermeneutics for literary criticism and social policy in the post–civil rights era. Examining critical responses to Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street , it argues that the traditional bildungsroman exerts a powerful hold...
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in The Race of Machines: Blackness and Prosthetics in Early American Science Fiction
> American Literature
Published: 01 September 2018
Figure 4 A later cover for the Beadle and Adams 1882 reprint of The Huge Hunter; or, The Steam Man of the Prairies . From the holdings of the Eaton Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, University of California, Riverside
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in The Race of Machines: Blackness and Prosthetics in Early American Science Fiction
> American Literature
Published: 01 September 2018
Figure 5 Cover of the first Frank Reade story (originally published in 1876), from a reprint in the January 24, 1883, issue of the Wide Awake Library . From the holdings of the Eaton Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, University of California, Riverside
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in Touching The Scarlet Letter : What Disability History Can Teach Us about Literature
> American Literature
Published: 01 March 2020
Figure 1 Helen Keller reads a raised-print book (Perkins Library, 1894). Description: Keller, fourteen years old, holds a large book on her lap with her right hand and reads with her left. Courtesy of the Perkins School for the Blind Archives
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in Colonial Relations in Miniature: Affective Networks, Race, and the Portrait in Victor Séjour’s “Le Mulâtre”
> American Literature
Published: 01 June 2021
Figure 1 An unknown gentleman, Frederick Buck (c. 1805). 1 and 2: front and back frame; 3: miniature portrait on ivory; 4: Bristol glass for rear frame; 5: backing for glass made from playing card; 6: compartment for rear frame, used for holding hair; 7: backing support for ivory. Image courtesy
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 901.
Published: 01 December 2006
... administered and
funded center for advanced research in history and the humanities located
at Brown University. The library’s holdings are concentrated on the history
of the Western Hemisphere during the colonial period (c. 1492 to c. 1825).
Research proposed by fellowship applicants must be suited...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 637–638.
Published: 01 September 2004
... and be
in continuous residence at the Library for the entire term of the fellowship.
The John Carter Brown Library is an independently administered and
funded center for advanced research in history and the humanities located
at Brown University. The library’s holdings are concentrated on the history...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (2): 331–355.
Published: 01 June 2022
.... As Harriet Jacobs ( 2009 : 7), one of the earliest Black feminist critics of property law, writes: “according to Southern laws, a slave, being property, can hold no property.” Since Jacobs, numerous other writers have theorized what Cheryl I. Harris ( 1993 : 1714) calls “this entangled relationship...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 51–77.
Published: 01 March 2015
... Literature: Western, Eastern, and Postcolonial Perspectives , edited by Hammond Andrew , 43 – 57 . New York : Routledge . Frank Pat . 1951 . Hold Back the Night . Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott . ———. 1953 . The Long Way Round . Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott . Hammond...
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