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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 769–773.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Stephen Knadler [email protected] Black Madness::Mad Blackness . By Therí Alyce Pickens . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2019 . xvi, 152 pp. Cloth, $94.95 ; paper, $24.95 ; e-book available. Disabilities of the Color Line: Redressing Antiblackness from Slavery...
Journal Article
American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 650–651.
Published: 01 September 2001
... of Snyder’s prose suffers from its lack of reference to pri-
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mary texts. The reader must struggle to discern where Murphy’s summary
of Snyder’s argument leaves off and where critical analysis begins.
Leigh Kirkland, Georgia Institute of Technology
Mad To Be Saved: The Beats...
Journal Article
American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 422–424.
Published: 01 June 2008
... in African American Literature . By Gene Andrew Jarrett. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. 2007. 223 pp. $47.50. Laughing Mad: The Black Comic Persona in Post-Soul America . By Bambi Haggins. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2007. x, 274 pp. Cloth, $68.00; paper, $23.95. Book...
Journal Article
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 185–187.
Published: 01 March 2003
... deserves
to be a defining, foundational work in American interdisciplinary scholarship.
Claudia Stokes, Trinity University
The Ivory Leg in the Ebony Cabinet: Madness, Race, and Gender in Victorian Amer...
Journal Article
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 188–190.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Britt Rusert © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture . By Benjamin Reiss. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2008. xi, 237 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00. Popular Print and Popular Medicine: Almanacs...
Journal Article
American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 194.
Published: 01 March 2008
... 2008 General Madness and the Loss of Identity in Nineteenth Century Fiction . By Judy Cornes. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2008. vii, 216 pp. Paper, $39.95. Brief Mention
Editions
Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate: A Tale of the Times. By Walt Whitman. Ed...
Journal Article
American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 639–641.
Published: 01 September 2010
... celebrates white supremacist accomplishment (26).
Yet, when placed in a French textbook, it “subtly encourages French students
to overlook their own nation’s ‘racial issues’ by drawing attention to another
country’s racist madness” (28). Smith also examines how the evidence pro-
vided by lynching...
Journal Article
American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 755–782.
Published: 01 December 2023
... for how literary studies scholars might complicate our attention to embodiment beyond narrative analysis, by thinking about disability and madness in the design and structure of texts and digital media. Through cripping the archive, the author calls for a reconceptualization of mad and disabled bodyminds...
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Journal Article
American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 619–633.
Published: 01 September 2002
...
and poetic possibilities of ‘‘divine madness’’ in an age in which mad-
ness, divine or otherwise, was grounds for institutionalization (93).
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For H.D. this task required an alternative reiteration and anagram-
matic scrambling of conventional religious and psychological codes...
Journal Article
American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 367–389.
Published: 01 June 2004
... of a Southern Pacific locomotive to look at the sun-
set over the box house hills and cry he remembers in the opening
sentence of ‘‘Sunflower Sutra a poem that works to rehabilitate both
the sunflower he discovers on that dock and ‘‘the specter and shade
of a once powerful mad American locomotive’’ (CP, 138–39...
Journal Article
American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 879–881.
Published: 01 December 2003
... of
gravity and lays out the book’s thematic crux: how the Beat performance of
‘‘deviance’’ was frequently self-conscious, not only because it had an element
of self-spectatorship but also because madness was indispensably tied...
Journal Article
American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 169–178.
Published: 01 March 2006
... Nationalist
movement of the 1960s (of which Madhubuti, a.k.a. Don L. Lee, was
a part) and the marginalization of black women by many of the black
male activists operating on the front lines of liberation struggles. Mad-
hubuti, early on, articulated a critical consciousness regarding such
gender bias...
Journal Article
American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 721–750.
Published: 01 December 2000
... has finished the story of his ventriloquistic powers. Attempt-
ing to shock her brother out of his madness and prevent him from
murdering her, Clara rephrases what she has heard, telling Wieland
that Carwin...
Journal Article
American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 407–409.
Published: 01 June 2008
... refiguration of such
iconic figures as La Llorona, Sor Juana, and Popo and Ixta (the Aztec war-
rior and his lover who adorn numerous calendars and black velvet paintings).
Esquibel reclaims a feminist and queer agenda for these figures who are too
often imagined as mad or bad women. Continuing...
Journal Article
American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 414–416.
Published: 01 June 2008
... refiguration of such
iconic figures as La Llorona, Sor Juana, and Popo and Ixta (the Aztec war-
rior and his lover who adorn numerous calendars and black velvet paintings).
Esquibel reclaims a feminist and queer agenda for these figures who are too
often imagined as mad or bad women. Continuing...
Journal Article
American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 416–419.
Published: 01 June 2008
... refiguration of such
iconic figures as La Llorona, Sor Juana, and Popo and Ixta (the Aztec war-
rior and his lover who adorn numerous calendars and black velvet paintings).
Esquibel reclaims a feminist and queer agenda for these figures who are too
often imagined as mad or bad women. Continuing...
Journal Article
American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 411–414.
Published: 01 June 2008
... refiguration of such
iconic figures as La Llorona, Sor Juana, and Popo and Ixta (the Aztec war-
rior and his lover who adorn numerous calendars and black velvet paintings).
Esquibel reclaims a feminist and queer agenda for these figures who are too
often imagined as mad or bad women. Continuing...
Journal Article
American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 425–426.
Published: 01 June 2008
... refiguration of such
iconic figures as La Llorona, Sor Juana, and Popo and Ixta (the Aztec war-
rior and his lover who adorn numerous calendars and black velvet paintings).
Esquibel reclaims a feminist and queer agenda for these figures who are too
often imagined as mad or bad women. Continuing...
Journal Article
American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 409–411.
Published: 01 June 2008
... refiguration of such
iconic figures as La Llorona, Sor Juana, and Popo and Ixta (the Aztec war-
rior and his lover who adorn numerous calendars and black velvet paintings).
Esquibel reclaims a feminist and queer agenda for these figures who are too
often imagined as mad or bad women. Continuing...
Journal Article
American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 427–430.
Published: 01 June 2008
... refiguration of such
iconic figures as La Llorona, Sor Juana, and Popo and Ixta (the Aztec war-
rior and his lover who adorn numerous calendars and black velvet paintings).
Esquibel reclaims a feminist and queer agenda for these figures who are too
often imagined as mad or bad women. Continuing...
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