1-20 of 1675

Search Results for long

Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account

Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
Close Modal
Sort by
Journal Article
American Literature (2022) 94 (2): 331–355.
Published: 01 June 2022
...Hannah Manshel Abstract This article reads Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) alongside Layli Long Soldier’s Whereas (2017) to argue that both texts challenge the ideology of property ownership that has long been central to Black and Indigenous subjugation. By reading...
Journal Article
American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 701–728.
Published: 01 December 2023
...Kodai Abe Abstract American racial politics during the long Korean War formed what this essay terms Afro-Asian antagonism , a racial hate between African Americans and Asians (and Asian Americans). When the Truman administration issued Executive Order 9981 and proclaimed its commitment to military...
Journal Article
American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 879–881.
Published: 01 December 2003
.... The Post-Utopian Imagination: American Culture in the Long 1950s. By M. Keith 6986 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:4 / sheet 191 of 255 Booker. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2002. 226 pp. $59.95. This Is the Beat Generation: New York, San Francisco, Paris. By James Campbell...
Journal Article
American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 193–196.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Jordan Alexander Stein © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Long before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America . Ed. Thomas A. Foster. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2007. ix, 405 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00. Gay Artists in Modern American Culture...
Image
Published: 01 March 2019
Figure 2 The heading for Princess Mysteria’s long-running column ( Chicago Defender , April 30, 1923) More
Journal Article
American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 857–859.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Andrew Hoberek © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Qualified Hope: A Postmodern Politics of Time . By Mitchum Huehls. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2009. x, 226 pp. $44.95. Life between Two Deaths, 1989–2001: U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties . By Phillip E. Wegner...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 416–418.
Published: 01 June 2005
... Long! Walt Whitman’s Poetry of Death. By Harold Aspiz. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. xi, 294 pp. $42.50. To Walt Whitman, America. By Kenneth M. Price. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Caro- lina Press. 2004. ix, 182 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95. Is close reading a dying art...
Journal Article
American Literature (2007) 79 (2): 430–432.
Published: 01 June 2007
...Marissa López Duke University Press 2007 Spain's Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo-American Empire . By María DeGuzmán. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2005. xxxiii, 372 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00. The Twentieth-Century Spanish American...
Journal Article
American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 630–633.
Published: 01 September 2017
... role, according to Gallman’s survey of the ways duty was parsed by gender and race. While the press praised women who donated time to the cause, many women writers, such as Gail Hamilton and Caroline Kirkland, “gave northern women a sort of political permission to go about their daily lives” so long...
Journal Article
American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 870–872.
Published: 01 December 2018
... Sharpe . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2016 . xi, 175 pp. Cloth, $84.95 ; paper, $22.95 ; e-book available. Long Past Slavery: Representing Race in the Federal Writers’ Project . By Catherine A. Stewart . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . 2016 . xv, 353 pp. Paper...
Journal Article
American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 224–226.
Published: 01 March 2019
... of American literature, both present arguments with repercussions (and opportunities) for Americanist scholars and prove that short and long forms share affinities—most notably scholarship’s reluctance to develop a coherent theoretical framework for dealing with either prolixity or brevity. Shortcomings...
Journal Article
American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 379–381.
Published: 01 June 2020
...), who remade the horror genre into an “unlikely vehicle for insurgent memory” at the bottom of the Great Depression (132). This cast of Communizing characters could hardly be more varied or more challenging to even the most indulgent definition of a single long nineteenth century. But Coghlan’s deftness...
Journal Article
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 193–196.
Published: 01 March 2003
... View. By Camille Roman. New York: Pal- grave. 2001. v, 173 pp. $45.00. Home Matters: Longing and Belonging, Nostalgia and Mourning in Women’s Fic- tion. By Roberta Rubenstein. New York: Palgrave. 2001. viii...
Journal Article
American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 631–634.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of the World, 1869–1922 . By Robert W. Rydell and Rob Kroes. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2005. xii, 209 pp. $26.00. Haunted Museum: Longing, Travel, and the Art-Romance Tradition . By Jonah Siegel. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2005. xv, 285 pp. Cloth, $67.50; paper, $26.95. Book...
Journal Article
American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 141–170.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Long Le-Khac Abstract This essay defines the problem of bildungsroman hermeneutics for literary criticism and social policy in the post–civil rights era. Examining critical responses to Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street , it argues that the traditional bildungsroman exerts a powerful hold...
Image
Published: 01 March 2025
Figure 9 Front page of the Weekly Anglo-African of April 26, 1862, with an installment of Delany’s Blake featuring a fragment of Whitfield’s “How Long” at the top of the second column. Archive.org More
Journal Article
American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 73–102.
Published: 01 March 2022
.... Rooted in discussion of this frustrated potential for a gay in-game Benny, this article interrogates a logic of lost opportunity for diverse representation present in game-development discourse, which manifests in a longing for more diverse characters that could have been but never came to be. This logic...
FIGURES | View All (7)
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 739–768.
Published: 01 December 2015
... and decolonization issues in their fiction, they struggled to reconcile the coexistence of a colorblind and a colonial Paris. The two-faced city is located in the periphery of expatriate fiction, in Wright's lesser-known novel The Long Dream (1958) and its 1959 sequel, “Island of Hallucination,” an unpublished roman...
Journal Article
American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 361–390.
Published: 01 September 2021
... imagined as glorious. Historical scholarship has long assessed the mania for cutting roads and canals into the landscape. But engaging an emerging infrastructuralism—and turning to imaginative texts that exist underneath the ground typically trod by US literary studies, from Philip Freneau’s celebratory...
FIGURES
Journal Article
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 61–91.
Published: 01 March 2013
...David Faflik American author Henry David Thoreau's transcendental writings are aesthetically “shallow.” To read Thoreau's signature works is to locate interpretive meaning elsewhere than the resonant “depths” with which we long have associated the transcendental text. These are the implications...