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“Beyond Railroads and Internment”? Japanese American Wartime Incarceration Literature and the Foundations of Asian American Literary Studies

Rei Magosaki
American Literature (2024) 96 (1): 85–112.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11092084
Published: 01 March 2024
...Rei Magosaki Abstract This article sees post–World War II wartime incarceration literature as a multigenerational corpus and reassesses the handling of this material in Asian American literary criticism and cultural analysis. As a way of addressing the expanding corpus of wartime incarceration...
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Emerson and Incarceration

Caleb Smith
American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 207–234.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-001
Published: 01 June 2006
...Caleb Smith Duke University Press 2006 Caleb Emerson and Incarceration Smith Absolute solitude, the violent turning inward on the self, whose whole being consists in the mastery of material and in the monotonous rhythm of work...
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Cripping the Archive: Analyzing Archival Disorder in the Yamashita Family Archives and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Letters to Memory

Hayley C. Stefan
American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 755–782.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10950792
Published: 01 December 2023
... experience of incarceration out of chronological order, encouraging new connections across a massive collection of materials: letters, photographs, federal surveillance documents, paintings, sermons, and other ephemera surrounding World War II Japanese American incarceration. Their respective acts...
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Transparent Citizenship: The Racialization of Privacy in Post–World War II Japanese American Fiction

Erin Suzuki
American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 521–545.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11557497
Published: 01 December 2024
...Erin Suzuki Abstract Written in the wake of the Japanese incarceration and the emergence of new Cold War discourses around race, privacy, and democracy, Hisaye Yamamoto’s and John Okada’s works mark a shift from the specific targeting of Japanese Americans as individuals whose citizenship...
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“An Extreme Sense of Protest against Everything”: Chester Himes’s Prison Novel

Thomas Alan Dichter
American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 111–140.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4326427
Published: 01 March 2018
... diminished its political disruptiveness. Cast the First Stone labors to contain the “extreme sense of protest” that Yesterday dramatizes so powerfully. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 criminality incarceration queer race state violence penology The most deadly prison fire...
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Geomemory and Genre Friction: Infrastructural Violence and Plantation Afterlives in Contemporary African American Novels

Rebecca Evans
American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 445–472.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9361265
Published: 01 September 2021
... experiences but rather by a complex legacy of familial and spatial trauma. He comes to Jojo because of their shared connection to Pop, but he is able to converse and travel with Jojo only after Jojo is brought to Parchman, where both his white father and his Black grandfather have been incarcerated, and where...
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Brief Mention

American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 607–614.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2334158
Published: 01 September 2013
..., 187 pp. $45.95. Endeavoring to look at Baldwin’s entire opus (including the less-studied later works), Miller situates Baldwin within the rise of critical legal studies and the new turns in these studies, as well as within critical race studies. In this nexus, Miller proposes that incarceration...
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Dehumanizing Slave Personhood

Jeannine Marie DeLombard
American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 491–521.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7722104
Published: 01 September 2019
... African Americans’ efforts to achieve and maintain a civil presence in an American law and culture where black personhood remains legible primarily as criminality. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 humanism US law and culture incarceration police brutality viral videos Today...
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Risk Culture: Performance and Danger in Early America

Lucia Hodgson
American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 661–663.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1339908
Published: 01 September 2011
....” Although a number of scholars across the disciplines have devoted significant critical thought to the why and wherefore of America’s recent incarceration epidemic, few have imagined the prison as a historical site that, into the twenty-­first century, illuminates quintessentially American...
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Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions

Carrie Hyde
American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 664–666.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1339917
Published: 01 September 2011
... States, imprisonment is quickly becoming an ordinary experience in “the land of the free.” Although a number of scholars across the disciplines have devoted significant critical thought to the why and wherefore of America’s recent incarceration epidemic, few have imagined the prison...
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Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolitionism, and Print Culture

Maurice Lee
American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 666–668.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1339926
Published: 01 September 2011
... of America’s recent incarceration epidemic, few have imagined the prison as a historical site that, into the twenty-­first century, illuminates quintessentially American attitudes on humanity and sexuality. Caleb Smith and Regina Kunzel fall into this latter category. Both thoughtfully...
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Three American Poets: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Herman Melville

Faith Barrett
American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 668–670.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1339935
Published: 01 September 2011
... of America’s recent incarceration epidemic, few have imagined the prison as a historical site that, into the twenty-­first century, illuminates quintessentially American attitudes on humanity and sexuality. Caleb Smith and Regina Kunzel fall into this latter category. Both thoughtfully...
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Acts of Narrative Resistance: Women's Autobiographical Writings in the Americas

Lauren Coats, Laura Jones
American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 670–673.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1339944
Published: 01 September 2011
... States, imprisonment is quickly becoming an ordinary experience in “the land of the free.” Although a number of scholars across the disciplines have devoted significant critical thought to the why and wherefore of America’s recent incarceration epidemic, few have imagined the prison...
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The Prison and the American Imagination

Patrick Elliot Alexander
American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 673–675.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1339953
Published: 01 September 2011
... States, imprisonment is quickly becoming an ordinary experience in “the land of the free.” Although a number of scholars across the disciplines have devoted significant critical thought to the why and wherefore of America’s recent incarceration epidemic, few have imagined the prison...
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Learning to Live with Crime: American Crime Narrative in the Neoconservative Turn

Jeannine Marie DeLombard
American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 675–678.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1339962
Published: 01 September 2011
... of America’s recent incarceration epidemic, few have imagined the prison as a historical site that, into the twenty-­first century, illuminates quintessentially American attitudes on humanity and sexuality. Caleb Smith and Regina Kunzel fall into this latter category. Both thoughtfully...
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A Novel Marketplace: Mass Culture, the Book Trade, and Postwar American Fiction

Thomas Strychacz
American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 678–680.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1339971
Published: 01 September 2011
... in the United States, imprisonment is quickly becoming an ordinary experience in “the land of the free.” Although a number of scholars across the disciplines have devoted significant critical thought to the why and wherefore of America’s recent incarceration epidemic, few have imagined the prison...
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National History and the World of Nations: Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of History in Japan, France, and the United States; Popular History and the Literary Marketplace, 1840–1920

Keith Byerman
American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 835–837.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-047
Published: 01 December 2010
... of historical and sociological work on U.S. incarceration published in the 1990s. It includes recent works by Angela Davis, Dylan Rodriguez, Joy James, Ruth Gilmore, Ben V. Olguín, Louis Men- doza, and myself. Collectively, this body of scholarship has established a field of what might best...
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Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture; Manifesting America: The Imperial Construction of U.S. National Space

Virginia Kennedy
American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 837–839.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-048
Published: 01 December 2010
... of historical and sociological work on U.S. incarceration published in the 1990s. It includes recent works by Angela Davis, Dylan Rodriguez, Joy James, Ruth Gilmore, Ben V. Olguín, Louis Men- doza, and myself. Collectively, this body of scholarship has established a field of what might best...
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Border Renaissance: The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Mexican American Literature; Mainland Passage: The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico

Richard T. Rodríguez
American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 839–841.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-049
Published: 01 December 2010
... of historical and sociological work on U.S. incarceration published in the 1990s. It includes recent works by Angela Davis, Dylan Rodriguez, Joy James, Ruth Gilmore, Ben V. Olguín, Louis Men- doza, and myself. Collectively, this body of scholarship has established a field of what might best...
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Intelligence Work: The Politics of American Documentary; Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers: Culture and Politics of the Early Cold War

Jeff Allred
American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 842–843.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-050
Published: 01 December 2010
... of historical and sociological work on U.S. incarceration published in the 1990s. It includes recent works by Angela Davis, Dylan Rodriguez, Joy James, Ruth Gilmore, Ben V. Olguín, Louis Men- doza, and myself. Collectively, this body of scholarship has established a field of what might best...
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