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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 585–594.
Published: 01 September 2022
.... If you’re poor it’s a constant thing, everyday, everyday. In some ways it’s almost more constant than race . . . ” —Beverly Smith, “Across the Kitchen Table: A Sister-to-Sister Dialogue” ( 1981 ) In response to the implicit inquiry driving this special issue—how does American literature understand...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 664–666.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Joseph Darda The Racial Imaginary of the Cold War Kitchen: From Sokol’niki Park to Chicago’s South Side . By Kate A. Baldwin . Hanover, NH : Dartmouth College Press . 2016 . xviii, 236 pp. Cloth , $85.00 ; paper, $45.00 ; e-book, $39.99 . Reading America: Citizenship...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 255–278.
Published: 01 June 2017
... between professional educators like Guillard and the bloggers producing content for free? Tumblr’s social network is a rich, even redistributive space for both textual circulation and feminist knowledge making, but the politicized bloggers on the site have no illusions that Tumblr is an online Kitchen...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 413–414.
Published: 01 June 2001
... in Glaspell’s story that ‘nothing important’ transpired in Minnie Foster’s kitchen Palumbo-DeSimone exhorts us to emulate the women in the story and figure out what the clues in the kitchen tell us about what happened...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 414–415.
Published: 01 June 2001
... that such stories are inherently inconsequential parallels the men’s convic- tion in Glaspell’s story that ‘nothing important’ transpired in Minnie Foster’s kitchen Palumbo-DeSimone exhorts us to emulate the women in the story...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 647–655.
Published: 01 September 2009
... to writers from Richard Wright and James Baldwin to Alice Walker and Toni Morrison. Originally published in Japanese, this English version is intended for a wide audience of U.S. literary scholars. Stirring the Pot: The Kitchen and Domesticity in the Fiction of Southern Women. By Laura Sloan...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 65–92.
Published: 01 March 2005
... and white, white and blue, banner manner. Her red and white all over black and blue, Hannah’s bandanna, flagging her down in the kitchen with Dinah, with Jemima. Someone in the kitchen I know’’ (T, 11). Mullen describes her work as a ‘‘splicing together of differ- ent lexicons 23 In this case, one thread...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 415–418.
Published: 01 June 2023
... of Heather Dewey-Hagborg’s How Do You See Me? , a computer learning to see. The “speculative remixes” of quotes from Virginia Woolf and Katherine Anne Porter, which xtine burrough and Sabrina Starnaman set atop clips from the Epic Kitchens data set in A Kitchen of One’s Own , tether data annotation...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2017
... evident once Julius’s motive for telling the tale is revealed. In supplementing the kitchen, as a material object, with the hesitation its history elicits, Julius succeeds in securing the building—which Annie had originally hoped to transform into a kitchen of her own—instead as a new meeting place...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 677–703.
Published: 01 December 2022
... by intervening in the publishing landscape itself. Kitchen Table Press, which Audre Lorde and Barbara Smith founded in 1980, became a hub for supporting and distributing autoethnographic writing (Smith 1989 : 11). Kitchen Table published many key precursors to autotheory that were rooted in the aesthetic...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 229–254.
Published: 01 June 2023
... a delicious meal. Check the cookbook in the kitchen for the recipe. Once done, enjoy your meal!” (Microsoft Research n.d. ). These instructions constitute the “quest,” or game objective the player must satisfy. After reading this prologue, players are further informed that they are in the “backyard,” along...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 213–220.
Published: 01 March 2015
..., sexuality, and affect within postwar movements. Writing in the Kitchen: Essays on Southern Literature and Foodways. Ed. David A. Davis and Tara Powell. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2014. xi, 245 pp. $60.00. Emerging from a 2010 conference panel on food and Southern US literature, Writing...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 827–853.
Published: 01 December 2012
..., Packer is a currency superstar. By the end of the novel he is in des- perate straits. The final scene finds Packer, who has only half a hair- cut, divested of all his wealth and prone on the floor of a condemned building in Hell’s Kitchen, suspended in a liminal state between life and death...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 206–208.
Published: 01 March 2005
..., and scarcely particularized by social context, might well have played a larger role in Things. For surely thingness—so frequently conjuring a kitchen, so often generating a litany of household items—is apt to be underwritten by the feminine? Susan Fraiman, University of Virginia ...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 904–907.
Published: 01 December 2017
... deal about his approach to the politics of poetic form. Reading a passage in which Ammons lovingly describes the fantastic smells and sounds emanating out of the kitchen while he writes in his office, Epstein shifts to thinking about the male privilege that makes possible this everyday scene. Focusing...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 117–140.
Published: 01 March 2006
... the impossible contradic- tion between Lutie’s material opportunities and the generic ideal of American opportunity. While riding the New York City subway home from work, Lutie sees an advertisement featuring a blonde woman standing next to a gleaming white sink, surrounded by a luxurious, spotless kitchen...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 661–688.
Published: 01 December 2013
... with each of these men about the materials and services required for Hemings to create his artful cook- ery for the plantation’s residents and guests. And in this way, the sur- face view of Jefferson’s correspondence also acknowledges the reach of Hemings’s cooking—centered in the kitchen...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 151–176.
Published: 01 March 2013
... to the white folk’s kitchen and back home again” (131). 12 Million Black Voices indicates an awareness of the economic and spatial structures that enforce the oppression of black women: “Surrounding our black women are many almost insuperable barriers: they are black, they are women...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 89–116.
Published: 01 March 2006
... a sparkling white kitchen, ‘‘a miracle of a kitchen complete with a housewife ‘‘with incredible blond hair’’ (S, 28). Absorbed in staring at the advertisement, Lutie ‘‘entered a small private world which shut out the people tightly packed around her’’ (S, 28). Within this pri...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 269–295.
Published: 01 June 2024
...: ‘For heaven’s sake! Go stand in the kitchen before you ruin the rug!’ When I look back on it, it was kind of funny in a horrible sort of way. I’m lying on the kitchen floor moaning in pain and bleeding all over.” Her parents, meanwhile, went about their normal routines, her father shaving and whistling while...