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Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism; Rhetorical Occasions: Essays on Humans and the Humanities

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Rebecca Wanzo
American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 659–661.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-037
Published: 01 September 2010
...Rebecca Wanzo © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism . By bell hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains. Cambridge, Mass.: South End Press. 2006. 145 pp. Paper, $15.00. Rhetorical Occasions: Essays on Humans and the Humanities . By Michael Bérubé...
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Toward a Postdigital Humanities: Cultural Analytics and the Computational Turn to Data-Driven Scholarship

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Gary Hall
American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 781–809.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2367337
Published: 01 December 2013
... methodologies adopted from computer science to help us analyze the vast, networked nature of knowledge and information in postindustrial society produce a major change in our understanding of literature and culture, and indeed the humanities? Some have suggested that we have already embarked on a post...
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Performing the American Frontier, 1870-1906; Embodiment of a Nation: Human Form in American Places

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Gretchen Murphy
American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 647–649.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-3-647
Published: 01 September 2002
... that converged in the slave trade in New Orleans, focusing on multiple interactive features of those worlds, includ- ing the persons who inhabited and shaped them, particularly the buyers and sellers of slaves, and the slaves themselves who were degraded from human beings to commodities and property...
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Revising the Human: Silence, Being, and the Question of the Animal in Nightwood

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Carrie Rohman
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 57–84.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-071
Published: 01 March 2007
...Carrie Rohman Duke University Press 2007 Carrie Revising the Human: Silence, Rohman Being, and the Question of the Animal in Nightwood . . . [T]he voice functions as a foreign body, as a kind of parasite introducing...
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Postmodern Humanism in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Reconciling the Void

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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 197.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-80-1-197-a
Published: 01 March 2008
... 2008 General Postmodern Humanism in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Reconciling the Void . By Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2006. xxv, 198 pp. $65.00. Brief Mention Editions Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate: A Tale...
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The Novel of Human Rights

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James Dawes
American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 127–157.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3453684
Published: 01 March 2016
...James Dawes In this essay, I identify the centers of aesthetic gravity that pull texts together into what I have come to think of as a subgenre of the contemporary US novel: namely, the novel of human rights. What connective structures and recurring concerns can be discerned at this early stage...
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A More “Human(e)” Society? Animal Autobiography and the Shaping of Race, Species, and Gender

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Karah M. Mitchell
American Literature (2024) 96 (3): 411–441.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11398671
Published: 01 September 2024
...Karah M. Mitchell Abstract At the turn of the twentieth century, animal welfare work occupied an increasingly prominent position in the United States, with women’s animal autobiographies serving particularly formative roles in teaching child readers “humane” values. During this same period, felines...
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Barbaric Culture and Black Critique: Black Antislavery Writers, Religion, and the Slaveholding Atlantic Black Well-Being: Health and Selfhood in Antebellum Black Literature Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death

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Danielle Christmas
American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 647–650.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-6994919
Published: 01 September 2018
...-Being: Health and Selfhood in Antebellum Black Literature . By Andrea Stone . Gainesville : Univ. Press of Florida . 2016 . xiv, 238 pp. Cloth , $79.95 . Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death . By Courtney R. Baker . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois...
View articletitled, Barbaric Culture and Black Critique: Black Antislavery Writers, Religion, and the Slaveholding Atlantic Black Well-Being: Health and Selfhood in Antebellum Black Literature <span class="search-highlight">Humane</span> Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death View PDF for article titled, Barbaric Culture and Black Critique: Black Antislavery Writers, Religion, and the Slaveholding Atlantic Black Well-Being: Health and Selfhood in Antebellum Black Literature <span class="search-highlight">Humane</span> Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death
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Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times The Child to Come: Life after the Human Catastrophe

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Rebecca McWilliams Evans
American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 879–881.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7208659
Published: 01 December 2018
...Rebecca McWilliams Evans Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times . By Stacy Alaimo . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2016 . 242 pp. Cloth, $94.50 ; paper, $27.00 ; e-book available. The Child to Come: Life after the Human Catastrophe...
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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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Gerry Canavan
American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 911–913.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7917502
Published: 01 December 2019
...Gerry Canavan Human Programming: Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom . By Scott Selisker . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2016 . 256 pp. Cloth, $91.00 ; paper, $26.00 ; e-book available. Editing the Soul: Science and Fiction in the Genome Age...
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The Modernist Corpse: Posthumanism and the Posthumous Antebellum Posthuman: Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Narratology beyond the Human: Storytelling and Animal Life

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Christopher Breu
American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 384–387.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8267852
Published: 01 June 2020
... seem to be an uncomfortable fit. Narrative is too bound to the human. Even more than language (the humanness of which animal theorists have nicely complicated), narrative seems to be anthropocentric. Animality is typically posited as radically nonnarrative. Yet Herman’s book reveals the lie in all...
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The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion since World War II; Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates

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Gene Andrew Jarrett
American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 637–639.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-038
Published: 01 September 2009
...Gene Andrew Jarrett © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion since World War II . Ed. David A. Hollinger. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2006. vi, 421 pp. $45.00. Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates . Ed. Mary Jo Bona...
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Public Humanities in the Reconstructed University

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Sophia Leonard, Benjamin Reiss, Víctor Velázquez Antonio, Makenzie Renee Fitzgerald
American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 781–790.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8780995
Published: 01 December 2020
... be attained remotely or in isolation. Public humanities, which promotes collaboration, civic and community engagement, and inter-institutional alliances, can be one such reparative force for the reconstructed university. This essay describes the work of graduate student researchers in an interdisciplinary...
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Military Technologies and Human Labor

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J. D. Schnepf
American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 351–363.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10575134
Published: 01 June 2023
... and Caren Kaplan . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2017 . 449 pp. Cloth, $114.95 ; paper, $30.95 ; e-book, $30.95 . Unmanning: How Humans, Machines, and Media Perform Drone Warfare . By Katherine Chandler . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers Univ. Press . 2020 . 190 pp. Cloth, $125.00...
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Subversion of the Human Aura: A Crisis in Representation

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N. Katherine Hayles
American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 255–279.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10575063
Published: 01 June 2023
...N. Katherine Hayles Abstract The human aura is now being subverted by a variety of simulacra. OpenAI’s language-generation program GPT-3 illustrates the challenges of interpreting algorithmic-generated texts. This article advocates interpretive strategies that recognize the profound differences...
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The Strangers Book: The Human of African American Literature The Lives of Frederick Douglass

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Andrea Stone
American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 428–430.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3861602
Published: 01 June 2017
... tendencies and desires to see in any figure, work, or event a single or master narrative or a definitive meaning. Pratt’s hope to “redefine [the category of literature] according to the stated desires of many nondominant peoples for a new understanding of the human, as well as the principles of the human...
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Evolution and “the Sex Problem”: American Narratives during the Eclipse of Darwinism; Profound Science and Elegant Literature: Imagining Doctors in Nineteenth-Century America; Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine

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Bernice L. Hausman
American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 659–662.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-047
Published: 01 September 2006
... in Nineteenth-Century America . By Stephanie P. Browner. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2005. 304 pp. $49.95. Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine . By Susan Merrill Squier. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2005. xvi, 350 pp. Cloth, $84.95; paper, $23.95...
View articletitled, Evolution and “the Sex Problem”: American Narratives during the Eclipse of Darwinism; Profound Science and Elegant Literature: Imagining Doctors in Nineteenth-Century America; Liminal Lives: Imagining the <span class="search-highlight">Human</span> at the Frontiers of Biomedicine View PDF for article titled, Evolution and “the Sex Problem”: American Narratives during the Eclipse of Darwinism; Profound Science and Elegant Literature: Imagining Doctors in Nineteenth-Century America; Liminal Lives: Imagining the <span class="search-highlight">Human</span> at the Frontiers of Biomedicine
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Aesthetics and the Infrastructural Turn in the Digital Humanities

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Jessica Hurley
American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 627–637.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3650271
Published: 01 September 2016
... ; paper, $34.95 ; e-book, $33.99 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 The infrastructures of the digital humanities are, like all the best infrastructures, simultaneously omnipresent and invisible. The digital humanities depend on and operate through a vast, interlocked network...
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The Insistence of the Material Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism

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Marcia Klotz, Lee Medovoi
American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 641–644.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3650295
Published: 01 September 2016
... of the Human . By Weheliye Alexander G. . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2014 . x, 209 pp. Cloth , $84.95 ; paper, $23.95 ; e-book available. Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism . By Musser Amber Jamilla . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2014 . xii, 255 pp. Cloth...
View articletitled, The Insistence of the Material Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the <span class="search-highlight">Human</span> Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism View PDF for article titled, The Insistence of the Material Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the <span class="search-highlight">Human</span> Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism
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Figure 2 Lithograph illustrating the relation of the human face to that of the eagle, c. 1827. Wellcome Library, London. Based on drawings by Charles Le Brun illustrating his c. 1670 lectures on the relationships between facial features and character traits.

Lithograph illustrating the relation of the human face to that of the eagle...

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in The Character Sketch, the Aesthetics of Representativeness, and Rip Van Winkle’s Electoral Double Vision > American Literature
Published: 01 March 2021
Figure 2 Lithograph illustrating the relation of the human face to that of the eagle, c. 1827. Wellcome Library, London. Based on drawings by Charles Le Brun illustrating his c. 1670 lectures on the relationships between facial features and character traits. More