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American Literature 11398671.
Published: 26 June 2024
... of white women. First, the article examines how humane education initiatives taught children to exert police-like roles in animal welfare work, capitalizing on existing cultural connections between children and animals to then teach children to disidentify from and ultimately help control racialized animal...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 611–635.
Published: 01 September 2010
... done particular damage to the humanities. Both overall national educational attainment and advanced academic research will be improved by building funding structures with egalitarian procedures and goals—which require greatly expanded public funding—and faculty will need to adopt egalitarian values...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 29–58.
Published: 01 March 2023
... voice. The freedom of expression found in education marks a transformation of silence into advocacy. The present proliferation of critical DREAMer memoirs largely reflects a new shape of post-9/11 Latinx literature, as well as the subgenre of human rights and literature. As the title suggests, Diary...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 833–857.
Published: 01 December 2002
... and paper-bound journal publishing industries, which are the
technologies by which we judge whether someone should be rewarded
with a career in postsecondary humanities—with, in other words, pro-
motion and tenure in a college or university; and the crisis in humani-
ties education—the diminishing roles...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 305–329.
Published: 01 June 2017
...:10) understood the student protests as crucial forms of “political and human education” and encouraged her students to participate, noting that they are “one of the most valuable parts of your education even though you don’t get academic credit for it.” She also used her position of power...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 379–395.
Published: 01 June 2017
... as if they are passive selves living a contingent existence, dependent on economic circumstances over which they have little to no control. In such an economic climate—at least like that of western New York—to argue that the mission of an education, especially one in the humanities, should be a transformation...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 397–423.
Published: 01 June 2017
..., 1957–1974 . Pittsburgh : Univ. of Pittsburgh Press . Gallop Jane . 2000 . “ The Ethics of Reading: Close Encounters .” Journal of Curriculum Theorizing 16 , no. 3 : 7 – 17 . Geiger Roger . 2006 . “ Demography and Curriculum: The Humanities in American Higher Education from...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 837–863.
Published: 01 December 2001
... called
‘‘liberal education a project whose undeniable susceptibility to cor-
ruption and illusion is the underside perhaps of the] great primal act
of imagination by which it establishes its essence and existence—. . .
its vision of a general enlargement and freedom and rational direction
of human...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 31–60.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Jennifer L. Fleissner Fleissner's essay explores a possible response to the recent return of what Cynthia Russett called “the intellectual imperium of the Darwinian era” through the writings of Henry Adams. Considering Adams's work—particularly The Education (1907), Mont St.-Michel and Chartres...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 213–223.
Published: 01 June 2017
..., and the Crisis of the Humanities . New York : Routledge . Caldwell Ellen C. 2016 . “ Teaching Trump: The Rise of the Crowd-Sourced Syllabus .” JSTOR Daily , December 1 . daily.jstor.org/teaching-trump-rise-crowd-sourced-syllabus . Chronicle of Higher Education . 2014 . “ 25 Years...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 451–481.
Published: 01 September 2005
... administration of the Dewey Deci-
mal System.17 If Moore’s indexes and archives construct a ‘‘system of
the formation and transformation of statements’’ for use in the field of
lyric poetry, this private work reprises, in miniature, Dewey’s public
project of arranging human knowledge into an intelligible...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 323–356.
Published: 01 June 2019
... concerned about the ethical education of children. —Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction (1989) We expect a white child to find it easy to identify with an animal but not with a black character. Is the child further removed from a person of another...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 733–761.
Published: 01 December 2022
...: last words .” Unpublished manuscript. Harris Adam . 2019 . “ The Death of an Adjunct: The Human Cost of Higher Education’s Adjunct Shift .” Atlantic , April 8 . https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/04/adjunct-professors-higher-education-thea-hunter/586168/ . Hong...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 225–253.
Published: 01 June 2017
... of fiction: “Schools don’t exist as job-training camps. They exist to educate students. To be truly educated, students need to graduate with more imagination, not less. They need to face questions about what it means to be a human being—they need to stop sleepwalking, if they’ve started it already...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 187–212.
Published: 01 June 2024
...). Graphic medicine, a field at the intersection of comic studies and the health humanities, has also recently become a feature of some medical education programs (Ronan and Czerwiec 2020 ). According to Michael J. Green and Kimberly R. Myers ( 2010 ), the interactions between text and image in graphic...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 67–91.
Published: 01 March 2016
... liberal education, sports, and art—all
three of which are understood to be “apparently pointless affair[s],
undertaken by people with a special aptitude, which sidestepped
attempts to paraphrase its value yet somehow seemed to communi-
cate something true or even crucial about The Human Condition...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 255–278.
Published: 01 June 2017
... open access and have operated in opposition to hierarchically controlled content distribution and educational systems. Both analog and digital forms of open-access woman of color pedagogy promote the free circulation of knowledge and call attention to the literary and social labor of networked...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 495–523.
Published: 01 September 2004
..., unconditioned, and creative. It is the subjective
feeling of freedom and personhood that eighteenth-century aesthetic
theory links to the ideal of human freedom and the (putatively) univer-
sal rights of man that are central to liberal political theory. In related
terms, sentimentalism links the capacity...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 355–377.
Published: 01 June 2017
... of education as a commodity in the marketplace. This promise, education as a gift of freedom, fails—it fails to speak to students today, fails to remedy racial and gendered disparities, and fails by giving students tests to pass that fail to make them think. Douglass, by contrast, sees literacy and freedom...
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The Plantation Countermelodies of Dunbar and Du Bois: Writing Agropolitical Subjecthood in the Nadir
American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 557–586.
Published: 01 September 2019
... of the Silver Fleece (1911), to explore counternarratives of black subjecthood. Agriculture’s focus on productive collaborations with the nonhuman, on cycles of decay and rebirth, and on the potential for self-determination provides a generative vocabulary for conceptualizing nadir-era experiences of the human...
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