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American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 123–134.
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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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 273–301.
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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American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 339–366.
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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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 725–727.
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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American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 115–121.
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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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 670–673.
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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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 859–861.
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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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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American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 89–116.
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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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 192–194.
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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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 425–426.
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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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 426–427.
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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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 435–436.
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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American Literature (2003) 75 (3): 661–663.
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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American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 1–28.
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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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 658–665.
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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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 659–661.
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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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 664–666.
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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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 424–425.
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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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 859–867.
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...