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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 391–416.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Jamin Creed Rowan Abstract This essay suggests that hard-boiled crime fiction in the United States has developed the kind of “deep infrastructural ethic” that John Durham Peters says is present in much modern thought. The essay attempts to illuminate the genre’s infrastructural ethic and its...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 345–359.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., the dam was known by both the United Nuclear Corporation (UNC) and the state and federal agencies that had granted its construction license to be an unstable infrastructure on shaky ground (Brugge, deLemos, and Bui 2011). But this was Navajo ground, and the violence was slow, and the mill produced...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 361–390.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Andrew Kopec Abstract This essay considers the politico-aesthetics of infrastructure by focusing on poems that anticipate, justify, and critique internal improvements, from Joel Barlow’s early Republican vision of the Erie and Panama Canals to texts that document the ruin caused by the works Barlow...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 445–472.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Rebecca Evans Abstract This essay argues that contemporary African American novels turn to the gothic in order to dramatize the uncanny infrastructural and spatial afterlives of the plantation through a literary strategy it identifies as geomemory : a genre friction between mimetic and gothic modes...
View articletitled, Geomemory and Genre Friction: <span class="search-highlight">Infrastructural</span> Violence and Plantation Afterlives in Contemporary African American Novels
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 627–637.
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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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 115–143.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., settler colonialism, and racial capitalism interlock to materially and discursively enable the US nation-state and liberal citizenship; sentimental conventions facilitate processes of containment and capture that allow this infrastructure to function smoothly rather than disrupting it. In contrast...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 497–523.
Published: 01 September 2021
... infrastructures intensify racial inequality under terms that do not include race at all. Through a reading of Chang-rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea (2014) and other texts, the article develops the term studious deracination to refer to a narrative strategy defined by an evacuated racial consciousness that is used...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 473–496.
Published: 01 September 2021
... effects. A focus on subsidence makes visible the sometimes-invisible infrastructure of the ground, and analysis scaled to the figure of subsidence forces a reorientation of vision—away from rising sea levels and toward the destabilizing loss of land. From this perspective, Ward’s fiction identifies...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 687–689.
Published: 01 September 2019
... Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 American Literature and Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities invite submissions for a joint special issue titled “The Infrastructure of Emergency,” coedited by John Levi Barnard, Stephanie Foote, Jessica Hurley...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 922–924.
Published: 01 December 2019
... Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 American Literature and Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities invite submissions for a joint special issue titled “The Infrastructure of Emergency,” coedited by John Levi Barnard, Stephanie Foote, Jessica Hurley...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 417–444.
Published: 01 September 2021
...”), the representations of “nature” users interact with on the internet or in video games (Chang 2019 ), or the physical infrastructure that undergirds the internet (Hu 2015 , Starosielski 2015 ). From undersea cables that stretch between continents, to data centers located in deserts and mountains, to satellites sent...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 337–349.
Published: 01 June 2023
... remind us to pay attention to “what, exactly is being maintained” (116), for example, infrastructures of colonialism, or neglected infrastructures that provide clean water, or infrastructures that are both. In some cases, Mattern suggests advocating for “curated decay,” such that “not every road or dam...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 305–319.
Published: 01 June 2023
... today; it shows up as either a technical assemblage at these different scales—of technologies, computational infrastructures, big data cultures, and so on—or a rhetorical maneuver toward vagueness as exercised by politicoeconomic power structures ( Technoprecarious , 38–48; Your Computer Is on Fire...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 227–229.
Published: 01 March 2019
... to enable, if not encourage, tactical performances and relations (216–19). Jagoda’s five-part framework is articulated with what he calls a “network imaginary”: “The complex of material infrastructures and metaphorical figures that inform our experience with and our thinking about the contemporary world...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 853–855.
Published: 01 December 2015
... is embedded in wider
social and material contexts. But for Kate Marshall and Jessica Pressman in
particular, the analytic frame no longer comes from one or another variant of
historical materialism; it comes instead from the materiality of media itself,
from the infrastructure of medial forms...
View articletitled, Corridor: Media Architectures in American Fiction Digital Modernism: Making It New in New Media Virtual Modernism: Writing and Technology in the Progressive Era
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American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 569–596.
Published: 01 September 2023
... materialist theories, a growing body of work has productively interrogated the intersection of these two areas of critical inquiry. 4 Such approaches examine how nonhuman worlds, such as those of animals, minerals, energy, waste, and infrastructure, converge with and generate the political domains of race...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 689–696.
Published: 01 December 2020
... infrastructure and climate unpreparedness encountering an indifference to Black life. The toll of the coronavirus in Black communities represents a similar failure of public health and medical infrastructures encountering the same indifference to Black life. One quarter of the work Blood Dazzler ( 2008...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 309–341.
Published: 01 June 2020
... cases, engineers could create invasive infrastructures (Rodríguez 2006). Third, politicians broke treaties; although they had agreed to let Nuevomexicanas/os conserve their common lands, they helped Anglos invest in private property. By recognizing that dispossession was at once material and imaginary...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 321–335.
Published: 01 June 2023
... by reducing it to a network of locatable data centers, stacks of infrastructure, platforms, and applications “located in places within economies of land, tax rates, energy, water for cooling, and proximity to the main trunk of the network” (35). It is this paradigm, she argues, that subtends demands...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 889–890.
Published: 01 December 2000
...
‘‘prohibitive intellectual formations on race Rushdy also addresses the ways
that Johnson considers ‘‘race itself’’ as ‘‘reinscribed in daily actions, super-
structural activities, and infrastructural developments’’ (167...
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