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Repetition and Value in Richard Wright’s Man Who Lived Underground

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Douglas A. Jones, Jr.
American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 123–134.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10345407
Published: 01 March 2023
...Douglas A. Jones, Jr. Abstract This essay considers how Richard Wright’s newly released novel, The Man Who Lived Underground (2021), offers a profound black existentialist rumination on suffering, alienation, pleasure, and aesthetic experience. Homing in on the novel’s use of figures of repetition...
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“It’s Good to Be Shifty”: The Local Democracies of Old Southwestern Humor

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D. Berton Emerson
American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 273–301.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2079161
Published: 01 June 2013
...D. Berton Emerson Emerson’s essay reassesses representative texts of the popular antebellum tradition known as Old Southwestern Humor—among them Augustus Baldwin Longstreet’s Georgia Scenes (1835), Johnson Jones Hooper’s Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1845), and George Washington Harris’s Sut...
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Coming Out through History's Hidden Love Letters in Absalom, Absalom !

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Norman W. Jones
American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 339–366.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-2-339
Published: 01 June 2004
...Norman W. Jones Duke University Press 2004 Norman W. Coming Out through History’s Hidden Love Jones Letters in Absalom, Absalom! At a Faulkner conference not long ago, a scholar posed the question, ‘‘Why Absalom, Absalom!? Why do we keep return- ing...
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Who Is a Southern Writer?

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Suzanne W. Jones
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 725–727.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-78-4-725
Published: 01 December 2006
...Suzanne W. Jones Duke University Press 2006 The U.S. South in Global Contexts: A Collection of Position Statements The following collection of position statements seeks to probe the academic possibilities of ‘‘a new Southern studies’’ as an intellectual enterprise that aims...
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Existentialisms: Blackness, Literature, Performance

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Soyica Diggs Colbert, Douglas A. Jones, Jr., Paige McGinley, Shane Vogel
American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 115–121.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10345393
Published: 01 March 2023
...Soyica Diggs Colbert; Douglas A. Jones, Jr.; Paige McGinley; Shane Vogel [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Our current literary, cultural, and performance studies rarely take existentialism as a still productive or urgent...
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Acts of Narrative Resistance: Women's Autobiographical Writings in the Americas

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Lauren Coats, Laura Jones
American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 670–673.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1339944
Published: 01 September 2011
...Lauren Coats; Laura Jones Acts of Narrative Resistance: Women's Autobiographical Writings in the Americas . By Beard Laura J. . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2009 . xiii, 199 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $21.50 . Continental Divides: Remapping the Cultures of North...
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Our South: Geographical Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature

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Suzanne W. Jones
American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 859–861.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1437243
Published: 01 December 2011
...Suzanne W. Jones Our South: Geographical Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature . By Greeson Jennifer Rae . Cambridge : Harvard Univ. Press . 2010 . x, 356 pp. $39.95 . One Homogeneous People: Narratives of White Southern Identity, 1890–1920 . By Watts Trent...
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Figure 2. Illustration from George B. Cheever’s The Dream; or, The True History of Deacon Giles’ Distillery and Deacon Jones’ Brewery (1848), originally published in 1835 as Inquire at Amos Giles’ Distillery. Made available by the Princeton University Library, Graphic Arts Collection.

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in Hawthorne’s Distillery: Time and Temperance in “The Birth-Mark” And Other Tales > American Literature
Published: 01 December 2016
Figure 2 Illustration from George B. Cheever’s The Dream; or, The True History of Deacon Giles’ Distillery and Deacon Jones’ Brewery ( 1848 ), originally published in 1835 as Inquire at Amos Giles’ Distillery . Made available by the Princeton University Library, Graphic Arts Collection. More
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Material Resistance and the Agency of the Body in Ann Petry's The Street

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William Scott
American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 89–116.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-78-1-89
Published: 01 March 2006
...-class, African American woman separated from her husband and trying to raise her son in Harlem in the mid- 1940s. Lutie’s story, told through the voice of an omniscient narra- tor, is entwined with the stories of those around her: Bub, her eight- year-old son; Jones, the superintendent of her...
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Would Poetry Disappear? American Verse and the Crisis of Modernity; Irrational Modernism: A Neurasthenic History of New York Dada

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David Bergman
American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 192–194.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-1-192
Published: 01 March 2005
...David Bergman By John Timberman Newcomb. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2004. xxix,296 pp. Cloth, $74.95; paper, $22.95; CD, $9.95. By Amelia Jones. Cambridge: MIT Press. 2004. ix, 334 pp. $39.95. 2005 192 American Literature Would Poetry Disappear? American Verse and the Crisis...
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Jack Kerouac's Duluoz Legend: The Mythic Form of an Autobiographical Fiction

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John Whalen-Bridge
American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 425–426.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-2-425
Published: 01 June 2001
...John Whalen-Bridge By James T. Jones. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 1999. xii,278 pp. $34.95. 2001 Book Reviews 425 that justifies our continuing interest...
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Creating the Modern Man: American Magazines and Consumer Culture,1900-1950

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Andrew Hoborek
American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 426–427.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-2-426
Published: 01 June 2001
... biography, and Jones and like-minded scholars also seek to go beyond the 6363 AMERICAN LITERATURE 73:2 / sheet 200 of 232 legend of Kerouac. The psychoanalytic framework that Jones establishes for his study is well-suited to discussing Kerouac’s ‘‘spontaneous prose...
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Detective Agency: Women Rewriting the Hard-Boiled Tradition

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Jan Cohn
American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 435–436.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-2-435
Published: 01 June 2001
...Jan Cohn By Priscilla L. Walton and Manina Jones. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 1999. 327 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $16.95. 2001 Book Reviews 435...
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Ethnic Modernisms: Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Dislocation; Rereading the Harlem Renaissance: Race, Class,and Gender in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dorothy West

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Linda Wagner-Martin
American Literature (2003) 75 (3): 661–663.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-3-661
Published: 01 September 2003
...Linda Wagner-Martin By Delia Caparoso Konzett. New York: Palgrave. 2002. xiv, 202 pp.$55.00. By Sharon L. Jones. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2002. ix, 159 pp. $62.95. 2003 Book Reviews 661...
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Destroyed Documents and Racial Vulnerability in the Literature of Slavery’s Legal Afterlife

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Valerie Sirenko
American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 1–28.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10345337
Published: 01 March 2023
... and a will to reenslave and disinherit the Black protagonist and her daughter. In the post-civil rights era, the neo-slave narrative continues to emphasize legal documents’ role in producing Black vulnerability. In Gayl Jones’s Corregidora (1975), a Black family loses their land when white clerks tear the deed out...
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Brief Mention

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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 658–665.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4161026
Published: 01 September 2017
... that erase indigenous voices. Understanding Edward P. Jones . By James W. Coleman. Columbia: Univ. of South Carolina Press. 2016. 124 pp. Cloth, $39.99; e-book, $21.99. In this survey of Jones’s work, Coleman discusses the techniques, themes, and patterns that span his novels and short story...
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Against the Gallows: Antebellum American Writers and the Movement to Abolish Capital Punishment / Remaking Custom: Law and Identity in the Early American Republic

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Edlie Wong
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 659–661.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1664764
Published: 01 September 2012
...Edlie Wong Against the Gallows: Antebellum American Writers and the Movement to Abolish Capital Punishment . By Jones Paul Christian . Iowa City : Univ. of Iowa Press . 2011 . x , 230 pp. $35.00 . Remaking Custom: Law and Identity in the Early American Republic...
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Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry / Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants: Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s / The Muse Is Music: Jazz Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to Spoken Word

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J. Peter Moore
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 664–666.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1664782
Published: 01 September 2012
... . By Woodson Jon . Columbus : Ohio State Univ. Press . 2011 . xii , 272 pp. $55.95 . The Muse Is Music: Jazz Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to Spoken Word . By Jones Meta DuEwa . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois Press . 2011 . xiv , 304 pp. $55.00 . © 2012 by Duke University Press...
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The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery

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James Applewhite
American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 424–425.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-2-424
Published: 01 June 2001
... of imagination on the other side of loss. James Applewhite, Duke University Jack Kerouac’s Duluoz Legend: The Mythic Form of an Autobiographical Fiction. By James T. Jones. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press...
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“Unstoppable” Creolization: The Evolution of the South into a Transnational Cultural Space; South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture; History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction; Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales

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Alfred Hornung
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 859–867.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-055
Published: 01 December 2006
...Alfred Hornung Duke University Press 2006 South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture . Ed. Suzanne W. Jones and Sharon Monteith. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2002. xxiii, 394 pp. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $36.95. History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent...
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