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American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 141–168.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Christopher Douglas Duke University Press 2006 Christopher What The Bluest Eye Knows about Them: Douglas Culture, Race, Identity Forays into family history are Toni Morrison’s stan- dard strategy for establishing character motivation in TheBluestEye...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 409–411.
Published: 01 June 2005
... Book Reviews White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies and Gentlemen of Colour: William Brown’s African and American Theater.By Marvin McAllister. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2003. x, 239 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $18.95. Theatre, Society...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 597–619.
Published: 01 September 2011
.... © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Daniel “If You Want to Know the Truth”: Pecchenino Fair Use, Authenticity, and J. D. Salinger On 25 May 1986, Random House received a letter informing the publishing company that the reclusive and uncoopera- tive subject...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 689–696.
Published: 01 December 2020
...://www.oed.com . Smith Patricia . 2008 . Blood Dazzler: Poems . Minneapolis : Coffee House Press . To be Black means to live with a sense of dread that comes with that burden of knowing . I think of Black dread as an existential state of waiting: the anticipation of those racial “situations...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 281–303.
Published: 01 June 2009
.... What exactly does it mean for democratic citizens to communicate successfully? How should they understand the act of communication with an “Other” who is different, and how should they understand what it means to “know” this Other? These questions animate both novels. The House of Mirth is concerned...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 163–185.
Published: 01 June 2024
... subverts the biopolitical logic of legitimacy that traps many patients who are Black, disabled, or both today. What emerges from holding figuration with literalization subtly shifts the illnesses we know and the conditions by which we know them. Harriet Jacobs writes of a hurting heart. There are pangs...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 783–810.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of the first graduate programs in creative writing were founded in the years after World War II, and their classes were dominated by white vets attending college on the GI Bill. The vets received the now-clichéd advice to write what they know, to turn their war experiences into war stories. The next wave...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 419–445.
Published: 01 September 2013
... privileged access to knowledge, just as Clithero does in Edgar Huntly . By treating somnambulists as knowing figures, Brown’s novel, and animal magnetism itself, transvalued an eighteenth-century sensory pathology: insensibility. In a period when the ability to produce public knowledge and even to claim...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 689–717.
Published: 01 December 2013
... across three primary media sites: Jacques Derrida’s writing, criticism of the televisual laugh track, and Miranda July’s 2005 film Me and You and Everyone We Know . Proposing we consider not only parentheses as textual marks but also “parentheticality” as a relational structure, Scheible’s essay weaves...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 523–549.
Published: 01 September 2014
... of the manufacturing process. The sculpture represents Wolf’s thirst “to know beauty,” a knowledge that would allow him to become “something other than he is.” The explicitly feminized art object is what seems to quench this thirst insofar as it transforms his experience of deprivation into form, turning hope...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 583–610.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Phillip Barrish Robert Herrick’s novel The Web of Life (1900), a self-proclaimed work of literary realism, opens a critical window onto an urban “web” of intersecting practices, institutions, and professional formations at a moment when key dimensions of the US health-care system as we know...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 723–735.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of the Plantationocene. Turning to the historical revolutionary figure of François Makandal, the essay explores alternative knowledge systems that help us to understand modes of human-environmental connection, semiotics of relation, and text networks of literature and oral history. These alternative ways of knowing...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (2): 301–329.
Published: 01 June 2022
... of neurodiverse Afro-fabulation that do not simply refute claims of Black inferiority through a representational politics of counterfacts, but fabulate, exaggerate, and deliberately foreground eccentric, excessive, and “irrational” ways of knowing that have their roots in diasporic epistemologies. Ultimately...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 755–782.
Published: 01 December 2023
... as not only content to be examined, but also users and creators whose disorder animates alternative ways of knowing personal and state violence. disability Japanese American incarceration time digital humanities archives In the opening to her 2017 pastiche memoir project Letters to Memory , Karen...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 121–150.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Benjamin Schreier Abstract This article takes the cliché of Jewish American literary breakthrough in the late 1950s as an opportunity to examine the perverse professional legibility of the Jewish American literary field: everyone knows about it, but few scholars outside the field take it seriously...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 91–119.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Robert Dale Parker Abstract Across the fiction and poetry of the Great Depression, when the focus turns to men on the down and out, unable to find work and not knowing where they will find their next meal or place to sleep, a series of representative scenes reappears from one now often-forgotten...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 263–293.
Published: 01 June 2019
.... Into a novel disparaged by generations of readers for its presumptuous racial knowingness—“she knows nothing about us ,” countered an understandably frustrated Martin R. Delany in a letter to Frederick Douglass on March 20, 1853 (Delany 2003 , 224, italics in original)—coral brings a potentially...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 203–231.
Published: 01 June 2008
... economic in nature—the essay examines the failure of interest-thinking to capture the most important features of conviction or belief (religious or not). To the extent that secular civil society relies on interest-thinking to manage conflicting beliefs, secularism as we know it may be limited...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 621–648.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Elizabeth Twitchell Twitchell's essay examines Dave Eggers's What Is the What (2006) in the context of recent international interest in the morality of uncertainty, a stance which looks to self-erasure, not-knowing, and imaginative empathy as providing both the most humane response to trauma...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 167–194.
Published: 01 June 2021
... intimacy with physically present Black and Indigenous peoples. Although the portrait is said to depict Georges’s father, who readers know is also the man’s white enslaver, the object remains hidden from view in a bag until the final moments of the sketch, which concludes with the father’s beheading...
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