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Subversion of the Human Aura: A Crisis in Representation
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 255–279.
Published: 01 June 2023
..., including videos, photographs, novels, films, and other visual and verbal art forms. In a nutshell, the crisis emerges from the paradoxical combination of increasingly close resemblances with highly disjunctive embodiments. Deep fakes look (walk, talk) like the humans they resemble, 2...
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New Criticism and Value in Taiwanese College English
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 397–423.
Published: 01 June 2017
...David M. Stewart Abstract The first part of this article identifies major problems facing college English in Taiwan, including declining enrollment, reduced funding, and widespread contingent hiring, linking them to similar problems associated with the humanities crisis in the United States...
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The Stock Ticker in the Garden: Frank Norris, American Literary Naturalism, and Capitalocene Aesthetics
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 485–511.
Published: 01 September 2020
... capitalism in which complex financial transactions led to destructive wheat monocultures. This critique anticipated the Capitalocene, a contemporary offshoot of the Anthropocene theory arguing that capitalism (rather than humanity per se) is responsible for the present planetary crisis. The vehicle...
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Makandal and Pandemic Knowledge: Literature, Fetish, and Health in the Plantationocene
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 723–735.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Elizabeth Maddock Dillon; Kate Simpkins Abstract Key aspects of the plantation economy, centered in the early Caribbean, include the theft of Indigenous land, agricultural monocropping, and racial capitalism as well as an epistemological effort to separate out humans, animals, and plants...
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Public Humanities in the Reconstructed University
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 781–790.
Published: 01 December 2020
... social importance, then public humanities in its many forms and settings represents a powerful supplement to traditional formats for humanistic scholarship, even and especially in a time of crisis. As John Dewey ( 1929 : 125, 129) wrote in his 1922 essay “Events and Meanings”—published three years after...
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Cosmopolis : Don DeLillo’s Melancholy Political Ecology
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 827–853.
Published: 01 December 2012
... examines how the novel repeatedly stages episodes that highlight the particular aliena tions inherent to cybercapitalist labor and the particular metabolisms it demands of human and built materialities. Through its rescripting of Karl Marx’s concept of alienation for the contemporary moment, Merola argues...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 611–635.
Published: 01 September 2010
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education in the humanities and has turned his attention
recently to the contemporary crisis, to write an essay on that
subject for the journal.
—Priscilla Wald, Editor
The United States has long been seen as the world’s
leader...
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The Age of Anxiety: Patricia Highsmith, Existential Psychology, and the “Decline” Of American Naturalism
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 769–798.
Published: 01 December 2015
... the legitimation crisis of the regulatory state. Highsmith repudiates a narrative world governed by structural or environmental conditions and—in contrast to literary naturalists like Theodore Dreiser and John Steinbeck—presents the darker corners of human experience as phenomena of the largely autonomous...
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American Afterlife: Benjaminian Messianism and Technological Redemption in Muriel Rukeyser’s The Book of the Dead
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 767–797.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Avery Slater Reading Muriel Rukeyser’s 1938 long poem The Book of the Dead alongside Walter Benjamin’s theories of messianism and “profane illumination,” this essay explores how their work reconceives 1930s Marxist secular politics of redemption along postsecular lines. As a crisis in interwar...
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Readerly Revisions: Letters to the Editor in the Crisis
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 257–280.
Published: 01 June 2020
...William Reed Quinn Abstract This essay examines how the editorial staff of the Crisis positioned readers as collaborators and literary activists. Looking at letters to the editor, I argue that readers helped reevaluate representations of blackness in American literary taste. These letters bridge...
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W. E. B. DuBois's Family Crisis
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American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 291–319.
Published: 01 June 2000
... photographic portrayal presumes an authentic (racial) rep-
resentative as subject and as objective representor. And when DuBois
explains in 1924 to Crisis readers that w]e want all the good clear
pictures of healthy human babies...
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An Overstory for Our Time
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 799–807.
Published: 01 December 2020
... in global care networks. It creates a crisis of care on multiple levels—the immediate, the dispersed, and the systemic—and it is exceedingly difficult to keep them all in focus. Although Richard Powers’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Overstory (2018), is not about illness or pandemic, it can illuminate...
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Protest and Affirmation: Composite Texts in the Crisis
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American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 89–116.
Published: 01 March 2004
... published a twenty-page NAACP report, com-
plete with photographs that depict burning buildings, injured people,
and residents displaced from their homes, confirming the validity of
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the writer’s claims about the human and financial toll...
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Ugly Data in the Age of Weather Satellites
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 815–837.
Published: 01 December 2016
... realities that implicate humans in the making of disaster. Rather than drawing attention to the human dimensions of climate change and weather crisis, these projects obscure the sensorial and affective tendons that bind humans to their geologic and atmospheric realities. Unlike the weather observers...
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Amoral Abolitionism: Frederick Douglass and the Environmental Case against Slavery
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 275–303.
Published: 01 June 2014
... implosion
of soils in the region.
When read in light of this history of environmental crisis, Douglass’s
reference to Lloyd’s “human crop” takes on a polemical salience dis-
tinct from the sentimental critique we are accustomed to attributing to
him. For when Douglass informs us that Lloyd’s...
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“Jack In, Young Pioneer”: Frontier Politics, Ecological Entrapment, and the Architecture of Cyberspace
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 417–444.
Published: 01 September 2021
... Sprawl trilogy (1984–1988) to the Telecommunications Act of 1996, this essay argues that cyberspace’s infinite, virtual territory provided a solution to the apparent ecological crisis of the 1980s: the fear that the United States was running out of physical room to expand due to overdevelopment...
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Human Programming: Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom Editing the Soul: Science and Fiction in the Genome Age
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 911–913.
Published: 01 December 2019
... with the moral, juridical, and economic assumptions that undergird both liberal democracy and free-market capitalism. In Human Programming: Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom , Scott Selisker takes up this crisis of the self in the Cold War, tracing how the discovery that human beings may in some...
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Dust Bowl, USA: Depression America and the Ecological Imagination, 1929-1941; Refiguring the Map of Sorrow: Nature Writing and Autobiography
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 470–472.
Published: 01 June 2003
... discursive and artistic responses to an ecological crisis, the North Ameri-
can Dust Bowl, expressed and mediated national convictions and anxieties
about ‘‘the frontier as well as about nature, development, science...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 345–359.
Published: 01 September 2021
... reproducing the ill effects of what the Potawatomi scholar Kyle Powys Whyte ( 2021 ) calls “crisis epistemology.” Crisis epistemology apprehends present conditions as both new and urgent. The presumption of newness, the unprecedented, allows for a degree of historical forgetting of past emergencies, while...
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Preface: Under Water
Free
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 233–241.
Published: 01 June 2012
...,
stories, and inhabitations of place that tell us how we got to where we
are and that give us the tools to remake the present otherwise. This
injunction recalls Lawrence Buell’s argument, in his first and last eco-
critical works, that the crisis in human-environmental relations is a
crisis...
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