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American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 29–58.
Published: 01 March 2023
... Grande’s The Distance between Us (2012), and Dan-el Padilla Peralta’s Undocumented (2015) as examples of the critical DREAMer memoir, foregrounding suppressed and subversive self-representation. Such self-fashionings are constrained by overachievement while still troubling the myth of meritocracy...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 67–91.
Published: 01 March 2016
... Findeisen , a PhD candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is completing a dissertation titled “Absent-Minded Forms: The Academic Novel, American Meritocracy, and Other Educational Fictions.” His e-mail address is [email protected] . © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 campus novel...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 611–635.
Published: 01 September 2010
... with. This dilemma is as true for
advanced research as it is for general college attainment. I will end by
mentioning the faculty role here. Our elitist model of meritocracy has
made faculty inadvertently complicit with administrators who are try-
ing to put our Humpty-Dumpty AFM back together again. Faculty...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 733–761.
Published: 01 December 2022
... the loop of liberalism and neoliberalism that frames academic labor politics through fantasies of meritocracy, individual autonomy, and the universality of aggrieved ex-privilege. Though I begin by critiquing quit lit’s story of the exceptional individual, I write of contingency from a place...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 169–178.
Published: 01 March 2006
...’’ institutions. The realities of anti–Affirmative Action dis-
course, the newly emergent ideological commitment to meritocracy,
and the sweeping testing and assessment criteria now institutional-
ized in most public-school arenas place these issues at the forefront of
current political discourse around race...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 169–178.
Published: 01 March 2003
... with jargon (micromanage, meritocracy, autograph,
infomercial) as well as brief meditations on the many uses of trendy
and fashionable as epithets. I imagine that many readers will not be
won over by Garber’s apparent proof...
Journal Article
American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 423–435.
Published: 01 June 2009
..., and this study demon-
strates how their failure to participate in the war affected the representation of
sexuality, meritocracy, and ethnicity in their works. The study also makes use
of previously unexamined archival materials from the U.S. Army.
Writing the Lost Generation: Expatriate Autobiography...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 291–317.
Published: 01 June 2005
... with a culture characterized by
self-invention and self-creation, and both narrate the demise of lineage
in favor of meritocracy, the decline of aristocracy in favor of populism.
The discourse of Anglo-American political history that made the dyad
of populist-aristocrat particularly weighty in the late...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 381–406.
Published: 01 June 2008
... does not enfranchise
him in an American meritocracy but, instead, provides a way for him
to consider how such entitlements are racialized. Later in life, when
he reads that Richard Wright was refused books by his local library,
Carlos claims that it enables him to take an analytical perspective...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 255–279.
Published: 01 June 2023
... development of the CRISPR gene-editing tool. When he first heard about her work, he recounts, he thought, “It’s going to make a meritocracy something quite savage.” References Allado-Mcdowell K. 2020 . Pharmako-AI . Peru : Ignota Books . Barthes Roland . (1967) 1977 . “ The Death...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 7–32.
Published: 01 March 2005
... military and by his embrace of notions of meritocracy.
He runs the 221st Chemical Smoke Generating Company ‘‘like it was
a chain gang’’ (33), demotes Wilkie, and plans to promote Peterson,
who conforms to his ideal of black manhood. However, Fuller points
to the idealism and hopelessness...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 497–523.
Published: 01 September 2021
...; B-Mors are included in minor capacities within Charter economy and culture, “mostly [as] bystanders or else hardworking service people” (42), and a miniscule percentage who “do extremely well on the yearly aptitude Exam” are “Chartered” and jump social spheres (27). This putative meritocracy is even...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 619–647.
Published: 01 September 2019
... the ideologies of individualism and meritocracy” (DiAngelo 2018 : 26). By diverting attention away from the fact that an overwhelming majority of black people still struggle to make economic, social, and political gains in contemporary US society, “black celebrities have sold the idea that America is no longer...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 607–641.
Published: 01 December 2024
... of this class, nor is respectability enshrined through descriptions of polite socializing and enlightened debate as in Sketches . Since elite status is based primarily on wealth, respectability and its liberal corollary—meritocracy—do not feature as Clamorgan’s central currency in leveraging the status of his...
