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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 193–195.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Allison S. Curseen Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights . By Bernstein Robin . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2011 . 318 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper , $24.00 . Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 279–304.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Sarah Ensor Abstract This article argues that pedagogy may help us respond to the precarity of higher education by reclaiming the forms of provisionality, accident, and exposure endemic to collaborative learning. Putting kinship theory into contact with studies of contagion, I suggest...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 186–188.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Susan Kurjiaka Duke University Press 2007 Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature . By Cindy Weinstein. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2005. x, 243 pp. $ 80.00. Making the “America of Art”: Cultural Nationalism and Nineteenth-Century...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 457–459.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Audra Simpson Deep Waters: The Textual Continuum in American Indian Literature . By Teuton Christopher B. . Lincoln : Univ. of Nebraska Press . 2010 . xxii, 272 pp. $40.00 . When Did Indians Become Straight? Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 377–405.
Published: 01 June 2018
... and the temporality of kinship lines more broadly. Bechdel represents this queering of generation and kinship as a constituent part of the young Alison’s coming-of-age as a queer comics artist; this temporal reworking simultaneously makes possible a queer reparative web of affiliation. Building on Eve Kosofsky...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 353–379.
Published: 01 June 2012
... too is our enabling kinship with it. What remains is an irresolvable fear regarding the uncertain borders between persons and environments. The essay concludes with a consideration of the implications of such a fear for ecocriticism. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Matthew A. The Nature...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 691–716.
Published: 01 December 2024
... move toward tribal termination in the 1950s. While the characters’ appeal to the US government could be construed simply as a plea for state recognition, the novel’s insistence on Chippewa kinship structures as a simultaneous and legitimate expression of the characters’ political identities suggests...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 547–570.
Published: 01 September 2011
..., attributions of kinship, and figurations of birth and rebirth, constructing a literary discourse of immigrant nativity —what Rana understands as the production of belonging by immigrants. Although Rihani and Rihbany cannot claim to have been born in the United States, they nonetheless imagine ways of “going...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 681–708.
Published: 01 December 2015
... Lyndon (1855), Marie Howland's Papa's Own Girl (1874), and Lizzie Holmes's Hagar Lyndon (1893; published under the pen name May Huntley). In their denunciation of marriage and their investment in alternative forms of kinship, intimacy, and sociality, these novels suggest an important and overlooked...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 583–611.
Published: 01 September 2009
... in Chicano Viet Nam war literature of analogizing Chicanos and Vietnamese revolutionaries, a potentially radical kinship undercut by the material realities of national and cultural loyalties. Patricia Santana's 2002 novel Motorcycle Ride on the Sea of Tranquility suggests the centrality of the war...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (2): 273–299.
Published: 01 June 2022
... by familial descent and dissent but rather is open to alternative modes of kinship. Specifically, this late nineteenth-century strategy is carried forward by authors such as Anzia Yezierska and Grace Paley, who turn to the Yiddish theater’s proclaimed improvement of Shakespeare in their multilingual English...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 859–885.
Published: 01 December 2002
..., and kinship that thinking about race in the context of repro-
ductive technology forces us, analytically speaking, to confront. Early
on, my deliberations will stray from the Fasanos and Rogerses as I
look at the precedent-setting case of AnnaJ.v.MarkC., in which
genetics and gestation were first defined...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 671–690.
Published: 01 December 2024
.... Montgomery—issued an official response to Rufus and Lizzie’s citizenship application that refused to uphold their collective actions to not only be recognized as Black Cherokee but also to have their traditions of community and kinship honored. The Dawes Commission’s response reinforced the CCC’s decision...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 196–198.
Published: 01 March 2009
... Peterson’s Kindred Specters considers the relationship among
slavery, spectrality, and non-normative forms of kinship. Peterson claims that,
in the United States, “to be without kin, or to engage in sexual and social rela-
tions that are unrecognized or unrecognizable as kinship within established...
Journal Article
American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 193–196.
Published: 01 March 2009
..., and non-normative forms of kinship. Peterson claims that,
in the United States, “to be without kin, or to engage in sexual and social rela-
tions that are unrecognized or unrecognizable as kinship within established
norms, is to live among the socially dead” (9). A number of concerns come
together...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 199–200.
Published: 01 March 2009
... Peterson’s Kindred Specters considers the relationship among
slavery, spectrality, and non-normative forms of kinship. Peterson claims that,
in the United States, “to be without kin, or to engage in sexual and social rela-
tions that are unrecognized or unrecognizable as kinship within established...
Journal Article
American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 203–205.
Published: 01 March 2009
... Peterson’s Kindred Specters considers the relationship among
slavery, spectrality, and non-normative forms of kinship. Peterson claims that,
in the United States, “to be without kin, or to engage in sexual and social rela-
tions that are unrecognized or unrecognizable as kinship within established...
Journal Article
American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 201–203.
Published: 01 March 2009
..., and non-normative forms of kinship. Peterson claims that,
in the United States, “to be without kin, or to engage in sexual and social rela-
tions that are unrecognized or unrecognizable as kinship within established
norms, is to live among the socially dead” (9). A number of concerns come
together...
Journal Article
American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 206–209.
Published: 01 March 2009
..., and non-normative forms of kinship. Peterson claims that,
in the United States, “to be without kin, or to engage in sexual and social rela-
tions that are unrecognized or unrecognizable as kinship within established
norms, is to live among the socially dead” (9). A number of concerns come
together...
Journal Article
American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 213–223.
Published: 01 June 2017
...: Contracting Kinship in the Queer Ecology Classroom,” challenges economic instrumentality, foregrounding how the American literature classroom presents a potentially radical alternative to the corporatized university by articulating how queer kinship—as theorized by Elizabeth Freeman and Jack Halberstam, among...
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