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The Killing Joke of Sympathy: Chester Himes's End of a Primitive Sounds the Limits of Midcentury Racial Liberalism

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Jodi Melamed
American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 769–797.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-038
Published: 01 December 2008
...Jodi Melamed “The Killing Joke of Sympathy” reconstructs the centrality of the “race novel” for the consolidation of racial liberalism as an official and limited state of antiracism in the United States after World War II. In particular, it considers the evidentiary and emotional values ascribed...
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The Ruptures of American Capital: Women of Color Feminism and the Culture of Immigrant Labor; Incorporations: Race, Nation, and the Body Politics of Capital

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Jodi Melamed
American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 843–845.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-050
Published: 01 December 2007
...Jodi Melamed Duke University Press 2007 The Ruptures of American Capital: Women of Color Feminism and the Culture of Immigrant Labor . By Grace Kyungwon Hong. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2006. xxxiv, 190 pp. Cloth, $58.50; paper, $19.50. Incorporations: Race...
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Racism and Violence in Current US Literary and Cultural Criticism

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James Dawes
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 177–184.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1959580
Published: 01 March 2013
... Racism and Violence in Current US Literary and Cultural Criticism Represent and Destroy: Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capi- talism. By Jodi Melamed. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2011. 304 pp. Paper, $25.00. Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality...
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The Diversity Requirement; or, The Ambivalent Contingency of the Asian American Student Teacher

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Douglas S. Ishii
American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 733–761.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10341762
Published: 01 December 2022
... American movement, see Maeda 2009 ; Umemoto 1989 . Chan 2000 and Osajima 2007 address the role of the university and Asian American panethnic politics after the 1970s. 19 See Nash 2019 for more on the conversion of Black feminist thought to symbolic capital. See also Melamed 2011...
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Changing the Subject: Adrienne Rich and the Poetics of Activist Pedagogy

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Danica Savonick
American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 305–329.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3861529
Published: 01 June 2017
... and Adrienne Rich .” In Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde , 81 – 109 . Freedom, CA : Crossing Press . Melamed Jodi . 2011 . Represent and Destroy: Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . Newfield Christopher...
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Data/Dispossession

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Seb Franklin
American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 321–335.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10575105
Published: 01 June 2023
..., in combination with certain legal forms articulated over the postwar course of what Jodi Melamed ( 2011 : 1–50) has identified as racial liberalism and its subsequent state antiracisms, has produced a situation where older modes of racialized hierarchy are dissimulated through data that are strongly correlated...
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White Writers, Race Matters: Fictions of Racial Liberalism from Stowe to Stockett Black Prometheus: Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atlantic Slavery

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Chris Taylor
American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 528–531.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9361321
Published: 01 September 2021
... as if it were itself a form of political action. What distinguishes White Writers, Race Matters from this critical tradition (as simple signposts, think of Lauren Berlant’s The Female Complaint [2008] and Jodi Melamed’s Represent and Destroy [2011]) is Jay’s ambivalence regarding racial liberalism’s self...
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“Times When Greater Disciplines Are Born”: The Zora Neale Hurston Revival and the Neoliberal Transformation of the Caribbean

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Patricia Stuelke
American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 117–145.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2395537
Published: 01 March 2014
... . London : Macmillan . Melamed Jodi . 2011 . Represent and Destroy: Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . Miller Mark Crispin . 1988 . “ Massa, Come Home .” In Boxed In: The Culture of TV , 31 – 39 . Evanston, IL...
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“An Extreme Sense of Protest against Everything”: Chester Himes’s Prison Novel

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Thomas Alan Dichter
American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 111–140.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4326427
Published: 01 March 2018
...–37. In any case, since portions of Yesterday were published while Himes was still incarcerated, the text reflects a work undertaken in the early-to-mid-1930s and completed within a decade after his release. See also Van Peebles 1998 , 19. 2 See D. Bell 1980 , Dudziak 2002 , and Melamed...
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The Literary Afterlife of the Korean War

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Joseph Darda
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 79–105.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2865199
Published: 01 March 2015
... . Cambridge : Harvard Univ. Press . Melamed Jodi . 2011 . Represent and Destroy: Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . Morrison Toni . 2012 . Home . New York : Knopf . ———. 2013 . Interview by Torrene Boone. YouTube...
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Afro-Asian Antagonism and the Long Korean War

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Kodai Abe
American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 701–728.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10950766
Published: 01 December 2023
... gradually became residual after World War II,” Jodi Melamed ( 2011 : 1, 3) writes, “it was replaced by a formally antiracist, liberal-capitalist modernity”—racial liberalism—and it “extended racialization procedures beyond color lines.” The replacement signaled the end of “color-line racialization...
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The Novel of Human Rights

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James Dawes
American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 127–157.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3453684
Published: 01 March 2016
... . “Introducing Human Rights and Literary Forms; or, The Vehicles and Vocabularies of Human Rights.” Special edition of Comparative Literature Studies 46 , no. 1 : 1 – 19 . Melamed Jodi . 2011 . Represent and Destroy: Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism . Minneapolis : Univ...
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The Asian American Contract: On Useful Labor and Social Reproduction in Severance and Minari

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Rebecca N. Liu
American Literature (2024) 96 (3): 473–499.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11398655
Published: 01 September 2024
... Asians in America . Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ. Press . Marx Karl . 1990 . Capital: Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy . Translated by Fowkes Ben . 3 vols. London : Penguin . Melamed Jodi . 2015 . “ Racial Capitalism .” Critical Ethnic Studies 1 , no. 1 : 76...
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Race Leaders, Race Traitors, and the Necropolitics of Black Exceptionalism in Paul Beatty’s Fiction

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Roberta Wolfson
American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 619–647.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7722152
Published: 01 September 2019
... multiculturalism,” I am using Jodi Melamed’s ( 2011 ) sense of the term, which she defines as a contemporary ideology that sees global capitalism as inherently antiracist. Like color-blind racism, neoliberal multiculturalism reinforces structural inequities caused by the uneven distribution of resources...
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The Thin White Line: Veterans and the White Racial Politics of Creative Writing

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Joseph Darda
American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 783–810.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7917308
Published: 01 December 2019
... affluent students of color. Now white students could read N. Scott Momaday to learn about American Indians, Rudolfo Anaya to learn about Chicanos, and Maxine Hong Kingston to learn about Asian Americans. Ethnic studies scholar Jodi Melamed ( 2011 : xvi) shows how literature emerged in the second half...
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Index to Volume 85 (March 2013-December 2013)

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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 845–862.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2379740
Published: 01 December 2013
... Cold War Satire, reviewed by Christian Moraru, 409–12. Melamed, Jodi. Represent and Destroy: Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism, reviewed by James Dawes, 177–84. Miller, Cristanne. Reading in Time: Emily Dickinson in the Nineteenth Cen- tury, reviewed by Marianne Noble, 824...
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Poetry Will Not Optimize; or, What Is Literature to AI?

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Michele Elam
American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 281–303.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10575077
Published: 01 June 2023
... for people to name and navigate their realities. The coda explores an example of AI as literary interlocutor and creative engagement beyond optimization. melam@stanford.edu Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 artificial intelligence literature art race GPT-3 At first...
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“Never Allowed for Property”: Harriet Jacobs and Layli Long Soldier before the Law

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Hannah Manshel
American Literature (2022) 94 (2): 331–355.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9779064
Published: 01 June 2022
... Studies 5 , no. 1–2 : 207 – 14 . Byrd Jodi , Goldstein Alyosha , Melamed Jodi , and Redy Chandan , eds. 2018 . “ Economies of Dispossession: Indigeneity, Race, Capitalism .” Special issue, Social Text 135 36 , no. 2 . Camp Stephanie M. H. 2004 . Closer...
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Ghosts of Essentialism: Racial Memory as Epistemological Claim

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John J. Su
American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 361–386.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-006
Published: 01 June 2009
... sponsored by the Future of Minority Studies National Research Project, and I would like to thank Michael Hames- García and Margaret Somers for their thoughtful responses. I would also like to thank Tobin Siebers, Jodi Melamed, and Cynthia Petrites for their critical readings. 1 This definition...
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Heartless Immensity: Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America; Traveling Women: Narrative Visions of Early America

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Lance Newman
American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 821–823.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-041
Published: 01 December 2007
... Melamed, Marquette University DOI 10.1215/00029831-2007-050 Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction. By Keith Byer- man. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2005. viii, 228 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95. Re-Forming the Past: History, the Fantastic...
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