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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 443–469.
Published: 01 September 2008
... was to annul its role in history. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 David Self-Abasement and Republican Insecurity:
Grant Paul Fane in Its Political Context
Late in the 1856 presidential campaign, several
Republican newspapers reported an endorsement...
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Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature The Poetics of Insecurity Consuming Catastrophe: Mass Culture in America’s Decade of Disaster
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 159–161.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Lindsay Thomas Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature . By John Hay . Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press . 2017 . ix, 238 pp. Cloth, $105.00 ; e-book available. The Poetics of Insecurity . By Johannes Voelz . Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press...
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Taxonomy of an Enslaved Heart
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 163–185.
Published: 01 June 2024
... Jacobs, Mary Prince, Sojourner Truth, and James Baldwin, the essay argues for what it calls the story of the heart : a minoritized account of pain that deforms sentimental language to register at once somatically, mentally, and intersubjectively. Because of its insecure legibility, the story of the heart...
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Octavia E. Butler How to Revise a True War Story: Tim O’Brien’s Process of Textual Production
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 873–875.
Published: 01 December 2018
...). Butler, who authored twelve novels and several short stories before she died in 2006, once described herself as “a pessimist if I’m not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive” (quoted on 1). Using a more overtly...
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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
... and the have-nots that George Levine ( 2001 ) calls the “two nations” of research and teaching. This gap is social, Levine reminds us, and as such extends from the stigmatizing of practical labor that has long marked class division in the United States, making it difficult for those perennially insecure...
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Beyond the Fruited Plain: Food and Agriculture in U.S. Literature, 1850–1905 Global Appetites: American Power and the Literature of Food
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 408–410.
Published: 01 June 2016
... this the “postindustrial pastoral” (17), and she perceptively notes that postindustrialism furnishes the necessary conditions for alternative agricultural projects—vacant lots, food insecurity, and precarious laborers. Carruth’s understanding of “the history of modernity” as structured by “ the interactions between...
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The Origin of Others Goodness and the Literary Imagination: Toni Morrison
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American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 600–602.
Published: 01 September 2023
...-alienation and insecurity. Her theme is the projection onto others of what the self cannot abide. For scholars who study such matters, this will not exactly be news, but nor is Morrison’s endeavor here to construct a grand new theory. The Origin of Others originated in her 2016 Charles Eliot Norton...
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The Ethics of Swagger: Prizewinning African American Novels, 1977–1993 the Time Is Always Now: Black Thought and the Transformation of US Democracy
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 622–624.
Published: 01 September 2015
... of black writers’ journey through
insecurity toward autonomy” (5). Hill argues that it was the aesthetic choice of
these writers to “shed anxieties regarding Eurocentric literary ideas” and
excavate their literary traditions—a choice to “walk with . . . dignity,” or to
“swagger”—that ironically...
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The Critical DREAMer Memoir: Educational Mobility and the Limits of Meritocratic Citizenship
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American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 29–58.
Published: 01 March 2023
... and Nerdy . New York : Routledge . Horton Sarah B. 2020 . “ Introduction .” In Paper Trails: Migrants, Documents, and Legal Insecurity , edited by Horton Sarah B. and Heyman Josiah , 1 – 26 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Jones Jennifer A. 2021 . “ Blackness...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 618–622.
Published: 01 September 2015
... Critics Award, and Ernest Gaines’s receipt
of the same prize for A Lesson before Dying, as well as Morrison’s Nobel Prize
in Literature, the period “signaled the end of black writers’ journey through
insecurity toward autonomy” (5). Hill argues that it was the aesthetic choice of
these writers...
View articletitled, The Darkness of the Present: Poetics, Anachronism, and the Anomaly Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature the Zukofsky Era: Modernity, Margins, and the Avant-Garde
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Land Claims, Natives, and Nativism: Susan Fenimore Cooper's Fealty to Place
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American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 475–500.
Published: 01 September 2007
.... British Colonel George Croghan, described by Taylor as “the
most avid, indeed manic, land speculator in colonial North America”
managed to obtain title to Indian deeds in the Otsego region as early
as 1768.20 Croghan’s means for securing the deeds were suspect and,
finally, insecure: “He cheated...
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Unliterary History: Toni Morrison, The Black Book , and “Real Black Publishing”
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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 651–676.
Published: 01 December 2022
... specialness of the book. The power of the corporatization-and-decline narrative, in an age of increasing economic insecurity and accelerating commodification, is undeniable. 15 Evidence of conglomeration’s impact on publishing, in anecdote and more recently in pathbreaking literary scholarship, is vast...
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Non-Newtonian Time: Robert Lowell, Roman History, Vietnam War
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American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 911–931.
Published: 01 December 2002
..., the
insecurity of its territorial borders, occasioned, I argue, by an even
more fundamental insecurity—that of chronology. A year, a decade, a
Robert Lowell and Non-Newtonian Time 921
century: these time slots are not ironclad. They are not made like file
cabinets. They cannot lock...
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How Quarantine Attempts to Universalize the Black Condition
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 697–706.
Published: 01 December 2020
..., and structural destitution,” and its “spread has resulted in new forms of insecurity, undermining the capacity of many to remain masters of their own lives” (Mbembe 2017 : 161). That loss of mastery, in this case, is an inability to hold still to preserve one’s own health because one’s body must be out working...
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Afterword: A “Citizen of the Ocean” in an Empire of Small Islands
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 745–756.
Published: 01 December 2024
... between citizen and stranger even more marked. Global conflicts, natural disasters, food insecurity, poverty, persecution, and accelerating climate change will continue to drive the movement of dispossessed peoples across oceans and borders. As stateless populations worldwide continue to surge, we might...
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Gender and Morality in Anglo-American Culture, 1650-1800; Democracy, Revolution, and Monarchism in Early American Literature
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 603–605.
Published: 01 September 2004
... have firm explanations for the historical
processes that have resulted in contemporary notions of masculinity. Herbert
and Thompson each underscore the fact that straight masculinity is based
on a rather devastating insecurity. For Herbert, men’s anxiety produced by
fears of their vulnerability...
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The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women's Literature in America, 1820-1860; The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the Civil War through World War II
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 605–607.
Published: 01 September 2004
... have firm explanations for the historical
processes that have resulted in contemporary notions of masculinity. Herbert
and Thompson each underscore the fact that straight masculinity is based
on a rather devastating insecurity. For Herbert, men’s anxiety produced by
fears of their vulnerability...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 608–610.
Published: 01 September 2004
... have firm explanations for the historical
processes that have resulted in contemporary notions of masculinity. Herbert
and Thompson each underscore the fact that straight masculinity is based
on a rather devastating insecurity. For Herbert, men’s anxiety produced by
fears of their vulnerability...
View articletitled, Caribbean Autobiography: Cultural Identity and Self-Representation; Scarring the Black Body: Race and Representation in African American Literature; Voices of the Fugitives: Runaway Slave Stories and Their Fictions of Self-Creation
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Reconstituting the American Renaissance: Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation; Whitman Possessed: Poetry, Sexuality, and Popular Authority
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 610–612.
Published: 01 September 2004
... have firm explanations for the historical
processes that have resulted in contemporary notions of masculinity. Herbert
and Thompson each underscore the fact that straight masculinity is based
on a rather devastating insecurity. For Herbert, men’s anxiety produced by
fears of their vulnerability...
View articletitled, Reconstituting the American Renaissance: Emerson, Whitman, and the Politics of Representation; Whitman Possessed: Poetry, Sexuality, and Popular Authority
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Civil Wars: American Novelists and Manners, 1880-1940; Social Reform, Taste, and the Construction of Virtue in American Literature, 1870-1910
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 612–615.
Published: 01 September 2004
... have firm explanations for the historical
processes that have resulted in contemporary notions of masculinity. Herbert
and Thompson each underscore the fact that straight masculinity is based
on a rather devastating insecurity. For Herbert, men’s anxiety produced by
fears of their vulnerability...
View articletitled, Civil Wars: American Novelists and Manners, 1880-1940; Social Reform, Taste, and the Construction of Virtue in American Literature, 1870-1910
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