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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 141–166.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Megan Obourn Through a reading of Arturo Islas's posthumously published La Mollie and the King of Tears , this essay offers a critique of liberal, multicultural uses of postcolonial hybridity in the context of U.S. literature and literary criticism. The essay reviews current uses of hybridity...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 673–699.
Published: 01 December 2010
... understanding of indigenous tradition and practice, we begin to see Apess as an active participant in a network of Native community and belief. Eulogy on King Philip shows Apess connecting with Native methodologies in heretofore unnoticed ways, drawing on traditional Native diplomacy and the “tragic wisdom...
View articletitled, What to the American Indian Is the Fourth of July? Moving beyond Abolitionist Rhetoric in William Apess's Eulogy on <span class="search-highlight">King</span> Philip
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 651–654.
Published: 01 September 2016
... and Culture . By Patterson Robert J. . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2013 . xiii, 202 pp. Cloth , $59.50 ; paper, $24.50 ; e-book, $24.50 . Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature . By Harris Trudier . Tuscaloosa : Univ. of Alabama Press . 2014...
View articletitled, Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership Exodus Politics: Civil Rights and Leadership in African American Literature and Culture Martin Luther <span class="search-highlight">King</span> Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 401–404.
Published: 01 June 2016
... : Stanford Univ. Press . 2015 . x, 164 pp. Cloth , $45.00 ; e-book available. Shock and Awe: American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.” By Spanos William V. . Hanover, NH : Dartmouth College Press . 2013...
View articletitled, Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain’s Asia and Comparative Racialization Mark Twain in China Shock and Awe: American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in <span class="search-highlight">King</span> Arthur’s Court.”
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for article titled, Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain’s Asia and Comparative Racialization Mark Twain in China Shock and Awe: American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain’s “A Connecticut Yankee in <span class="search-highlight">King</span> Arthur’s Court.”
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 585–588.
Published: 01 September 2020
..., Mohegan and Haudenosaunee rhetorical figures, Pawnee and Osage paths, and Lakota and Dakota ways of looking, Calcaterra relocates Native literatures to the center of American literary histories. Lisa Brooks’ Bancroft Prize-winning Our Beloved Kin shows us that understandings of King Philip’s War...
View articletitled, Our Beloved Kin: A New History of <span class="search-highlight">King</span> Philip’s War Literary Indians: Aesthetics and Encounter in American Literature to 1920 Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation Modernity and Its Other: The Encounter with North American Indians in the Eighteenth Century
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for article titled, Our Beloved Kin: A New History of <span class="search-highlight">King</span> Philip’s War Literary Indians: Aesthetics and Encounter in American Literature to 1920 Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation Modernity and Its Other: The Encounter with North American Indians in the Eighteenth Century
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American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 444–445.
Published: 01 June 2000
..., Washington
King Arthur in America. By Alan Lupack and Barbara Tepa Lupack. Rochester:
Boydell & Brewer. 1999. xiii, 382 pp. $75.00.
Clearly, King Arthur in America results from a long-running project. Its...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 652–653.
Published: 01 September 2000
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From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest. By Anita
Haya Patterson. New...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 443–445.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Claudia Stokes Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible . By Robert Alter. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2010. 198 pp. $19.95. Displacing the Divine: The Minister in the Mirror of American Fiction . By Douglas Alan Walrath. New York: Columbia Univ. Press. 2010. xvi...
View articletitled, Pen of Iron: American Prose and the <span class="search-highlight">King</span> James Bible; Displacing the Divine: The Minister in the Mirror of American Fiction; Transforming Scriptures: African American Women Writers and the Bible
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 549–577.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Thomas H. Kane Duke University 2004 Thomas H. Mourning the Promised Land: Martin Luther
Kane King Jr.’s Automortography and the National
Civil Rights Museum
When Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his final
speech on the night of 3 April 1968...
View articletitled, Mourning the Promised Land: Martin Luther <span class="search-highlight">King</span> Jr.'s Automortography and the National Civil Rights Museum
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 869–871.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Stephen Knadler © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 King's Dream . By Eric J. Sundquist. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 2009. viii, 295 pp. $26.00. American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture . By George Shulman. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">King's</span> Dream; American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 651–652.
Published: 01 September 2010
... Adams dis-
cusses are Michael Herr’s memoir Dispatches and two post-Vietnam works,
David O. Russell’s Three Kings and Anthony Swofford’sJarhead , both of which
were made into films. In all of these works, Adams focuses on that “gap
between civilian expectation and soldierly experience...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 151–182.
Published: 01 March 2019
... to a “winner-take-all” labor market with a few superstar earners and many struggling unknowns. Both Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick used their respective versions of The Shining to describe the conditions of the 1970s media industries. Each told the story of a would-be middle-class writer grappling...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 747–773.
Published: 01 December 2011
... in the 1850s. Although a certain kind of albino elephant ( chang pheuak ) was regarded as auspicious in Siam, these animals were not white, nor were they given as gifts by the king of Siam in order to ruin his rivals. Bullen traces the emergence of the white elephant as a figure for value in European...
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Published: 01 June 2018
Figure 6 Frontispiece illustration in Frederick E. Forbes ( 1851 ), Dahomey and the Dahomans: Being the Journals of Two Missions to the King of Dahomey, and Residence at His Capital, in the Year 1849 and 1850
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 221–250.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Figure 6 Frontispiece illustration in Frederick E. Forbes ( 1851 ), Dahomey and the Dahomans: Being the Journals of Two Missions to the King of Dahomey, and Residence at His Capital, in the Year 1849 and 1850 ...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (2): 273–299.
Published: 01 June 2022
... (The Jewish King Lear, 1892) and Mirele Efros; Di yidishe Kenigin Lir (Mirele Efros, or the Jewish Queen Lear, 1898). In fact, the Yiddish theater considered Shakespeare’s works to be essentially unfinished—outside the determinism of cultural and historical boundaries—to the extent that, in a caustic...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 553–574.
Published: 01 September 2000
... to the actual murder of the king and queen.
From the start, he avoids the topic even as he begins to approach it.
After a discussion of his diplomatic accomplishments abroad, he hints...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 227–253.
Published: 01 June 2021
... in the twentieth century. Consequently, racial and class anxieties manifest in more complex, often conflicting, desires within populations that have both benefited from and suffered as a result of colonization. An example can be seen in Hemmings’s protagonist, Matt King, who takes pride in his Kanaka Maoli...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 901–903.
Published: 01 December 2017
...—incorporating personal details, collective memories, and historical nuance—that disrupts the 1950s Cold War “discourse of certitude” (16). He turns to four autobiographical texts: King’s 1967 Riverside address, in which he makes public his opposition to the Vietnam War and his private struggles over the war...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 287–313.
Published: 01 June 2002
...Pamela Lougheed Duke University Press 2002 Pamela ‘‘Then Began He to Rant and Threaten
Lougheed Indian Malice and Individual Liberty in
Mary Rowlandson’s Captivity Narrative
The most notorious battle of King Philip’s War is
the Great Swamp...
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