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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 194–197.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Shari Huhndorf “That the People Might Live”: Loss and Renewal in Native American Elegy . By Krupat Arnold . Ithaca, NY : Cornell Univ. Press . 2012 . xii , 242 pp. $45.00 . The Red Land to the South: American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico . By Cox James H...
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Transparent Citizenship: The Racialization of Privacy in Post–World War II Japanese American Fiction
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 521–545.
Published: 01 December 2024
... if the goal of transparency was not to expose or condemn the individual but to better illuminate the parts that individuals play in the construction of our society, and the complexity of their connections to others? And how might transparent citizenship be reconceptualized to empower, rather than infantilize...
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Spinster Ecology: Rachel Carson, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Nonreproductive Futurity
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 409–435.
Published: 01 June 2012
... of The Country of the Pointed Firs . Ultimately, Ensor contends that paying heed to figures like the spinster might inspire a queer ecocritical practice attentive to affects customarily considered too weak to be socially efficacious. By redefining where and how we see the future, the spinster alters our sense...
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Embodied Politics: Antebellum Vegetarianism and the Dietary Economy of Walden
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 33–60.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Michelle C. Neely Near the beginning of Walden , Henry David Thoreau tells his readers that his “experiment in living” is dedicated to learning “what are the gross necessaries of life... the grossest groceries,” a choice of metaphor that might remind us just how much of his personal and political...
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Within, Aside, and Too Much: On Parentheticality across Media
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 689–717.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Jeff Scheible In the context of the proliferation of textuality in the new media age, and the changing demands of adequately analyzing it, Scheible’s essay explores the possibilities of a reading strategy that asks how we might take parentheses as starting points for critical thinking, looking...
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Fabulously Procedural: Braid , Historical Processing, and the Videogame Sensorium
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 745–779.
Published: 01 December 2013
... to purely cognitive. The game uses its formal blends and its play mechanics to complicate how history is typically thought and to imagine how it might be engaged or processed differently. Ultimately, Braid interrogates the impulses that drive videogames and the historical subjects that they produce. ©...
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Making the Perfect Record
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 817–818.
Published: 01 December 2013
..., audio playback, and visual culture—early magnetic recording materialized. In so doing, the essay offers scholars of both new and old media a sense of how we might better historicize the ostensible permanence and immateriality of contemporary data cultures and their digital economies. “Making the Perfect...
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Impostors of Freedom: Southern White Manhood, Hypodermic Morphine, and E. P. Roe's Without a Home
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 527–554.
Published: 01 September 2008
... time, the temperance plot was updated to include the idea that such habituations might be nervous illnesses afflicting modern professional workers. Through its addicted protagonist Martin Jocelyn, Roe's novel engages these unevenly developing medical, reform, and popular early representations...
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Salvaging History: Modern Philosophies of Memory and Time in The Age of Innocence
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 555–581.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of the emotional trauma wrought by the war and a proposal for how the modern world might recover and move forward. Cannily manipulating time within the accessible form of the historical novel, Wharton makes readable a version of modern consciousness in which behavior and emotion, public time and private time...
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Whitman's Atom and the Crisis of Materiality in the Early Leaves of Grass
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American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 253–279.
Published: 01 June 2009
..., laboring to fashion a temporary space from which poems of democratic adhesion might be uttered. If in 1856 the atom enables the poet to transcend space and time, in 1860 he may convert matter into spirit, but he may not outlive it. Read in this light, Whitman's early editions of Leaves record an important...
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Angels in (Mexican) America
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 683–711.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Jordan Alexander Stein This essay posits that scholars interested in studying the history of secularism might avail themselves of the tools attendant upon the study of another well-worn historically important but empirically fraught object: literature. Precisely because secularism is a story—a bad...
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Fictionality Risen: Early America, the Common Core Curriculum, and How We Argue About Fiction Today
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 225–253.
Published: 01 June 2017
... debates. After a brief reading of Royall Tyler’s The Algerine Captive (1797), the article explores how attention to these historical contestations over fiction’s value might lead to a reconsideration of the grounds on which we defend fiction’s educational value today. I close by considering the more...
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All the Microworld’s a Stage: Realism in Interactive Fiction and Artificial Intelligence
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 229–254.
Published: 01 June 2023
... abandoned, AI researchers have recently called for their return, this time borrowing from the literary genre of interactive fiction, whose forms and conventions they might use to represent the world in text for the purpose of teaching machines to speak. This confluence of literary form and scientific method...
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Cripping the Archive: Analyzing Archival Disorder in the Yamashita Family Archives and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Letters to Memory
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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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“Unquestioned Citizenship”: History, Poetry, and Black and Native Military Service in Hampton Institute’s Southern Workman
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 579–605.
Published: 01 December 2024
... publicly, through imaginative verse, Black and Native military service. These writers share a hope that military service might usher in the benefits of formal citizenship. But that hope is accompanied by a sense of skepticism, in that wartime did not always yield a completely united American front...
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What’s in a Name? Vincent Ogé, Toussaint Louverture, and George Boyer Vashon’s Revision of the Haitian Revolution
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 237–262.
Published: 01 June 2019
... the free black people of the United States might activate the volcanic latency of racial discontent in their country just as Ogé had in his. At the same time, Vashon’s revision of John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem “Toussaint L’Ouverture” (1833) offsets the way in which Louverture’s name had become...
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The Plantation Countermelodies of Dunbar and Du Bois: Writing Agropolitical Subjecthood in the Nadir
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 557–586.
Published: 01 September 2019
.... Under this model, literature provides a venue wherein the legacies of the plantation might be imaginatively transposed from a Jim Crow necropolitics of violent constraint and dispossession into vectors of agropolitical possibility. To that end, the essay uses Dunbar and Du Bois to propose potentially...
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Race Leaders, Race Traitors, and the Necropolitics of Black Exceptionalism in Paul Beatty’s Fiction
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 619–647.
Published: 01 September 2019
... of the African American literary tradition, these novels take on a nihilistic tone to raise questions about how the black community might effectively (if at all) achieve civil progress in the contemporary age. Ultimately, these satirical novels reimagine historically necropolitical spaces, such as the basketball...
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Gaming Borders: The Rhetorics of Gamification and National Belonging in Papers, Please
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 181–209.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and symbolic value of national boundaries through the deployment of specific gameplay mechanics and storytelling elements. However, as this essay argues, border games do more than merely represent borders in games; they reflect how borders themselves might be experienced as games within the cultural logic...
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Reconsidering Lost Opportunities for Diverse Representation
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 73–102.
Published: 01 March 2022
... suggests particular ways that developers might conceive of diverse representation as simply a design issue under neoliberal logics of economic opportunity, commercial risk, and fetishized innovation—without meaningful consideration of political significance. Opposing this instrumentalization of frustrated...
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