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The Information Isolation Trope: Isolation, Infection, and Information Silos in Early American Literature
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American Literature (2024) 96 (3): 325–353.
Published: 01 September 2024
..., information, and death/disability underscores just how concerned early Americans were with the potentially harmful effects of information silos. The concern with information siloing, at first glance, seems anachronistic to early America. Eli Pariser popularized the concept of a “filter bubble” in 2011 when...
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Literary Information Warfare: Eileen Chang, the US State Department, and Cold War Media Aesthetics
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 719–744.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Richard Jean So So’s essay reconstructs a literary genealogy for the emergence of “information warfare” in the early Cold War period (the 1950s). Specifically, it argues that this form of warfare—which So dubs “literary information warfare”—took shape first and most keenly within the US state’s...
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Information Warfare and Slow Media: Loyalism and the Lesson of Revolutionary Failure
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 821–849.
Published: 01 December 2017
.... In contrast to accounts that emphasize the speed of propaganda, political operatives in America loyal to the Crown deliberately sought to slow the flow of information, including the stream of satire, rumor, and diatribe that inevitably accompanied it. Broadsides, pamphlets, and poems written in reaction...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 434–437.
Published: 01 June 2017
... such as network and information overload rework our understanding of the past. As these strange historical transfers suggest, the study of literary technologies demands more than dutiful technical histories and general philosophies of technological life. These books occupy an important, often overlooked middle...
View articletitled, Computing as Writing Metamedia: American Book Fictions and Literary Print Culture after Digitization The Poetics of <span class="search-highlight">Information</span> Overload: From Gertrude Stein to Conceptual Writing Networks of Modernism: Reorganizing American Narrative
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 192–195.
Published: 01 March 2010
... Information Culture . By Peter West. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2008. xiv, 229 pp. $44.95. Literature and Moral Reform: Melville and the Discipline of Reading . By Carol Colatrella. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2002. x, 337 pp. $55.00. Herman Melville and the American Calling...
View articletitled, Devils and Rebels: The Making of Hawthorne's Damned Politics; The Arbiters of Reality: Hawthorne, Melville, and the Rise of Mass <span class="search-highlight">Information</span> Culture; Literature and Moral Reform: Melville and the Discipline of Reading; Herman Melville and the American Calling: The Fiction after “Moby-Dick,” 1851–1857
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Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture; Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 889–891.
Published: 01 December 2006
...Kirsten Silva Gruesz Duke University Press 2006 Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture . By Robert D. Aguirre. Minneapolis: Univ. Minnesota Press. 2005. xxix, 198 pp. Cloth, $67.50; paper, $22.50. Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles...
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Richard Wright and the Black Metropolis: From the Great Migration to the Urban Planning Novel
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 653–680.
Published: 01 December 2020
... in response to the Great Migration and used Wright’s informal study of sociology with the Chicago school to animate its project. Native Son , for all of its flaws, first considered how narrative can help explain and unspool the “neutral and egalitarian” guise behind the truly discriminatory urban planning...
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“A Handful of Syllables Thrown Back across the Water”: Dictée ’s Aesthetic Legacy and Thai American Poetics
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American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 59–88.
Published: 01 March 2023
... of poststructural theory, experimental literary forms, and transnational, decolonial politics in the United States and Asia, a more sustained engagement with Thai American and Thai poetry can offer a critical entry point to address US informal empire building in Southeast Asia, including activities often occluded...
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Poetry Will Not Optimize; or, What Is Literature to AI?
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 281–303.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Michele Elam Abstract Literature, poetry, and other forms of noncommercial creative expression challenge the techno-instrumentalist approaches to language, the predictive language generation, informing NLP (large natural language processing models) such as GPT-3 or -4 as well as, more generally...
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Reconsidering Lost Opportunities for Diverse Representation
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 73–102.
Published: 01 March 2022
.... While Ellison’s story featured a gay man named Benny among the protagonists, the game developers adapted Benny without his original sexual identity. In a 2012 Game Informer magazine article, however, the developers reflected on their version of Benny as a “lost opportunity” for exploring gay identity...
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“Poets of the First Book, Writers of Promise”: Beginning in the Era of the First Book Prize
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American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 753–778.
Published: 01 December 2010
... poets to the charge of careerism. Zuba's essay explores the representation of poets' paths in the context of postwar debuts, which consistently evoke the career through the theme of beginning. On the one hand, this emphasis signifies a capitulation to the imperative of development that informs...
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The Image of Absence: Archival Silence, Data Visualization, and James Hemings
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 661–688.
Published: 01 December 2013
..., and concludes that Hemings’s culinary labor, when considered as techne , can inform discussions of digital labor today. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 References Amin Shahid . 1995 . Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura, 1922-1992 . Berkeley and Los Angeles : Univ. of California...
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Deep Thought, Shallow Aesthetic: Reading Surface Meaning in Thoreau
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 61–91.
Published: 01 March 2013
....” Whether we can or should agree with their proffered explanation for this “depth”-evading turn—“at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century,” they write, “so much seems to be on the surface”—is a matter that resides beyond the scope of this essay. This article's informing concern instead...
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Toward a Postdigital Humanities: Cultural Analytics and the Computational Turn to Data-Driven Scholarship
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 781–809.
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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Post-Automation Poetics; or, How Cold-War Computers Discovered Poetry
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 205–227.
Published: 01 June 2023
...-contactor, and the corporation. Computer-generated poetry from this era often participated in the larger project of fostering public conception of the power and prestige of computers. This ethos of “post-automation poetics” was also informed by computer science experiments with computation’s linguistic...
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Transparent Citizenship: The Racialization of Privacy in Post–World War II Japanese American Fiction
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 521–545.
Published: 01 December 2024
..., citizens vis-à-vis the state, by giving us information we might need to imagine and remake the power dynamics of this relationship? [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 opacity transparency Asian American literature citizenship On June 26, 2018, the US...
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Antebellum Apathy: A Study of Indifference in Melville
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 529–556.
Published: 01 September 2017
..., as well as those that inform and motivate our work in the first place—in relative and relational terms. Apathy is more than a generational disposition of postmoderns or the cool, emotionless province of “critique” that Rita Felski identifies with what she (after the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur) names...
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Desiring Blackness: A Queer Orientation to Marvel’s Black Panther , 1998–2016
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 221–250.
Published: 01 June 2018
... ( 2016 ) of the title character’s black female comrades-in-arms, this reading interrogates how race consciousness and colonial legacies inform the discourses of desire operating within the text. The term desiring blackness describes an orientation to reading that defers to African Americanist and black...
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“The Lesbian Norman Rockwell”: Alison Bechdel and Queer Grassroots Networks
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 407–438.
Published: 01 June 2018
... Bechdel’s visual rhetoric in the pages of WomaNews , the grassroots periodical where Bechdel first published her work and participated as a member of the collective. Informed by archival research, this analysis embraces grassroots contexts as an overlooked venue for exploring queer histories and tracing...
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Making Emends: Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Anne Bradstreet
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American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 93–125.
Published: 01 March 2016
... as to both comment on its errors and let them remain evident to the reader. Lorde's emphasis on knowledge as an ongoing phenomenon rather than a finite commodity, and her understanding of prose as a means to inscribe that process, informed this technique and became evident to Rich in a series of contentious...
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