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American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 425–426.
Published: 01 June 2000
.... 1997. x, 406 pp. $75.00. Writings in ‘‘The Southern Literary Messenger Nonfictional Prose is a welcome addition to Poe scholarship, and like the other volumes of the series, it will prove...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 799–823.
Published: 01 December 2015
... a set of individual postures and consumer choices. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 New Journalism literary nonfiction Malcolm X post-1945 literature entrepreneurial individualism References Abernethy Graeme . 2013 . The Iconography of Malcolm X . Lawrence : Univ. Press...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 569–595.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Ben Bolling Abstract This essay examines the serialized accrual of narrative in the transmedia celebrity construct of Truman Capote. Through historical and literary analysis of texts ranging from the travelogue The Muses are Heard (1956), the profile of Marlon Brando in “The Duke in His Domain...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 225–253.
Published: 01 June 2017
...—and they need to start learning how to love strangers” (Woodruff 2012 ). 6 As the New York Times notes, “A striking assumption animates arguments on both sides, namely that nonfiction is seldom literary and certainly not literature. Even Mr. Coleman erects his case on largely dispiriting, utilitarian...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 672–674.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Kenneth Kidd A Literature of Questions: Nonfiction for the Critical Child . By Joe Sutliff Sanders . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2018 . 274 pp. Cloth, $100.00 ; paper, $25.00 ; e-book, $23.75 . Was the Cat in the Hat Black? The Hidden Racism of Children’s...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 430–438.
Published: 01 June 2016
... on the years before she found literary fame at the age of forty. In order to reveal how her literature was influenced by the hardships she overcame, the authors juxtapose biographical sections with selections from her writings. Winifred Black/Annie Laurie and the Making of Modern Nonfiction...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (3): 675–689.
Published: 01 September 2003
... acquaint themselves with her private life must look elsewhere. This volume, which presents itself as a complement to literary studies and biographies, assembles ‘‘lesser-known’’ reminiscences of Cather, drawn from newspapers...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 445–458.
Published: 01 June 2001
... II here stand alongside literary readings from Mark Twain to Shirley Taylor Haizlip. Reciprocities in the Nonfiction Novel. By John Russel. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2000. ix, 242 pp. $35.00...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 908–916.
Published: 01 December 2017
... in a variety of nonfiction literary forms, including biographical sketches, public addresses, cultural and literary criticism, travel writing, life-and-letters biography, autobiography, and family memoir, publishing such works as William Wetmore Story and His Friends (1903), The American Scene (1907...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 633–641.
Published: 01 September 2015
..., and nonfiction publications will prove helpful to scholars of the American literary Left in the mid-twentieth century. Playing House in the American West: Western Women’s Life Narratives, 1839–1987. By Cathryn Halverson. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2013. xii, 251 pp. Cloth, $44.95; e...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 197–200.
Published: 01 March 2017
... 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Early comics scholars, themselves often practitioners, as well as theorists, of their art form, were intent on establishing the legitimacy of the field and the particular characteristics that distinguished the comics medium from its more conventional literary...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 181–182.
Published: 01 March 2000
...) and The Columbiad (1807), William Prescott’s histories of the conquests of Mexico and Peru (1843 and 1847), Herman Melville’s ‘‘Benito Cereno’’ and ‘‘The En- cantadas and Walt Whitman’s ‘‘Passage to India In a sort of ‘‘literary diplo...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 182–183.
Published: 01 March 2000
...) and The Columbiad (1807), William Prescott’s histories of the conquests of Mexico and Peru (1843 and 1847), Herman Melville’s ‘‘Benito Cereno’’ and ‘‘The En- cantadas and Walt Whitman’s ‘‘Passage to India In a sort of ‘‘literary diplo...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 183–185.
Published: 01 March 2000
...) and The Columbiad (1807), William Prescott’s histories of the conquests of Mexico and Peru (1843 and 1847), Herman Melville’s ‘‘Benito Cereno’’ and ‘‘The En- cantadas and Walt Whitman’s ‘‘Passage to India In a sort of ‘‘literary diplo...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 185–186.
Published: 01 March 2000
...) and The Columbiad (1807), William Prescott’s histories of the conquests of Mexico and Peru (1843 and 1847), Herman Melville’s ‘‘Benito Cereno’’ and ‘‘The En- cantadas and Walt Whitman’s ‘‘Passage to India In a sort of ‘‘literary diplo...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 186–187.
Published: 01 March 2000
...) and The Columbiad (1807), William Prescott’s histories of the conquests of Mexico and Peru (1843 and 1847), Herman Melville’s ‘‘Benito Cereno’’ and ‘‘The En- cantadas and Walt Whitman’s ‘‘Passage to India In a sort of ‘‘literary diplo...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 187–188.
Published: 01 March 2000
...) and The Columbiad (1807), William Prescott’s histories of the conquests of Mexico and Peru (1843 and 1847), Herman Melville’s ‘‘Benito Cereno’’ and ‘‘The En- cantadas and Walt Whitman’s ‘‘Passage to India In a sort of ‘‘literary diplo...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 188–189.
Published: 01 March 2000
...) and The Columbiad (1807), William Prescott’s histories of the conquests of Mexico and Peru (1843 and 1847), Herman Melville’s ‘‘Benito Cereno’’ and ‘‘The En- cantadas and Walt Whitman’s ‘‘Passage to India In a sort of ‘‘literary diplo...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 189–190.
Published: 01 March 2000
... Whitman’s ‘‘Passage to India In a sort of ‘‘literary diplo- macy both Freneau and Barlow, in search of a ‘‘usable past’’ for the incipient American nation state, projected a nativist national imaginary upon the Aztecs...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 191–192.
Published: 01 March 2000
...) and The Columbiad (1807), William Prescott’s histories of the conquests of Mexico and Peru (1843 and 1847), Herman Melville’s ‘‘Benito Cereno’’ and ‘‘The En- cantadas and Walt Whitman’s ‘‘Passage to India In a sort of ‘‘literary diplo...