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American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 666–667.
Published: 01 September 2000
... essential literature.
H. Bruce Franklin, Rutgers University-Newark
Light Writing and Life Writing: Photography in Autobiography. By Timothy Dow
Adams. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2000. xxiv...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 624–626.
Published: 01 September 2008
..., $29.95. Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities . By Susannah B. Mintz. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2007. x, 251 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $21.95. Writing Deafness: The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature . By Christopher Krentz. Chapel...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 461–463.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Jean Marie Lutes A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx . By Showalter Elaine . New York : Knopf . 2009 . xiv, 586 pp. Cloth , $30.00 ; paper , $16.95 . Owning Up: Privacy, Property, and Belonging in US Women’s Life Writing...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 399–438.
Published: 01 September 2022
... challenges to scholars studying life writing from the perspectives of US literary studies, disability studies, and poverty studies. While mendicant narratives’ ambiguous authorship and departures from the truth trouble expectations of authentic and resistant self-representation, these elements offer new...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 653–654.
Published: 01 September 2010
... Press. 2008. xx, 321 pp. Cloth,
$89.50; paper, $29.95.
Writing Vietnam, Writing Life: Caputo, Heinemann, O’Brien, Butler. By Tobey C.
Herzog. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2008. xii, 217 pp. $39.95.
These books are certainly illuminating to read together. Both look back at the
Vietnam War...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 844–847.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Mark Chiang The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American . By Song Min Hyoung . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2013 . 284 pp. Cloth , $84.95 ; paper , $23.95 ; e-book , $23.95 . Modern Minority: Asian American Literature and Everyday Life...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 188–190.
Published: 01 March 2011
... Origins of the Constitution. By Eric Slauter. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2009. xii, 373 pp. $40.00. Democracy's Spectacle: Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing. By Jennifer Greiman. New York: Fordham Univ. Press. 2009. xi, 276 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $24.00...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 191–193.
Published: 01 March 2011
... romance
addresses the evolution of national form, Southwestern humor recounts the
death of local culture and the emergence of the region, and African Ameri-
can life writing describes the formation of the modern categories of race”
(20). According to Pratt, these genres are rife...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 178–180.
Published: 01 March 2020
... . By Margaret Ronda . Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ. Press . 2018 . x, 178 pp. Cloth, $60.00 ; e-book available. The Half-Life of Deindustrialization: Working-Class Writing about Economic Restructuring . By Sherry Lee Linkon . Ann Arbor : Univ. of Michigan Press . 2018 . xvii, 200 pp...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 805–832.
Published: 01 December 2009
... locally in conversations with New Narrative, a group of “fellow travelers” composed of Bay Area writers who combined queer practices and politics with the high stakes of formally innovative writing. Drawing on local small press publications and the transcripts of the Left/Write Conference (1981...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 617–644.
Published: 01 September 2012
... US life. As
urban planners Peter Calthorpe and William Fulton write, “we have
outgrown the old suburban model,” and yet our efforts remain circum-
scribed by the reality that “vested interests and inertia often block
needed change.”14 I read The Corrections as the novel of inertia and
Aloft...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 305–329.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Danica Savonick Abstract This article examines Adrienne Rich’s teaching materials, writings on education, and participation in the Search for Education, Elevation, and Knowledge educational opportunity program in order to argue that poetry and pedagogy were interrelated means through which Rich...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 791–820.
Published: 01 December 2017
...J. Peter Moore Abstract The present essay grows out of an engagement with a single line from Amiri Baraka’s 1964 book, The Dead Lecturer . In the poem “Rhythm and Blues,” Baraka writes, “The people of my life / caressed with a silence that only they understand.” The line appears amid a long...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 513–541.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Travis Alexander Abstract Writing in 1991 and 1994, respectively, Donna J. Haraway and Emily Martin argued that in the postwar decades the immune system became a material pedagogy for neoliberal and postmodern thought. In its depiction as a decentralized network of response, the immune system...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 775–803.
Published: 01 December 2009
...
even as he fixed Harlem with his increasingly sophisticated cameras,
the composition of his photography as well as his writing exposes
an eagerness to emphasize the mutability of African American life,
its unremitting resistance to static imaging. The eviction scene...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 479–507.
Published: 01 September 2011
... eventual divorce in 1913. The Mount was carefully designed to provide Wharton with her own quarters, segregated from her husband's as well as from the public rooms below. Withdrawing there to write, she developed as a professional novelist not by fleeing the domestic but rather by claiming a second order...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 517–545.
Published: 01 September 2015
... reveals this seismic shift in thinking about the
human life course: the 1790 census simply recorded whether free
white males were older or younger than sixteen, while the 1850 asked
individuals to report a specific numerical age. As Judith Treas (2009,
87) writes, chronological age became...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (4): 655–683.
Published: 01 December 2021
... to a domestic scene of women’s oppression, feminist internationalists politicized personal life by confronting the entanglement of home, family, and the frontlines of a distant war in Vietnam. Key poems from Rukeyser’s 1968 collection The Speed of Darkness were excerpted widely and embraced as authorizing...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 89–117.
Published: 01 March 2012
..., Hyperstimulus, and the Rise of Popular Sensa-
tionalism,” in Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life, ed. Leo Charney
and Vanessa R. Schwartz (Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California
Press, 1995), 91.
7 For more on this relationship, see Laura Marcus, The Tenth Muse: Writing...
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Rescued Children and Unfit Mothers: Dreiser’s Social Work in the Delineator ’s Child-Rescue Campaign
American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 57–89.
Published: 01 March 2017
... reproduction. Readers were able to write in to the magazine to adopt “dependent” children whose images and stories were featured in each issue. The essay suggests that these serialized images and “tragic histories” constructed a form of realism in which the Delineator ’s readers were invited to act as maternal...
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