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“Unquestioned Citizenship”: History, Poetry, and Black and Native Military Service in Hampton Institute’s Southern Workman

Sidonia Serafini

American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 579–605.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11557521

Published: 01 December 2024

...Sidonia Serafini Abstract This article explores how Black race histories, Native American traditionary histories, and tribute poems published in Hampton Institute’s Southern Workman (1872–1939) used military service as an imaginative foundation for thinking about citizenship beyond legal meanings...

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The Black Atlantic Monthly : Nicholas Said and the Limits of Literary Citizenship

Ira Dworkin

American Literature (2025) 97 (1): 37–64.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11597500

Published: 01 March 2025

... to appeal for citizenship, he wrote about his homeland in today’s northeast Nigeria, a part of the world the he recognized as “so imperfectly known to the civilized nations of Europe and America.” Said uses the pages of the Atlantic to inscribe African intellectual, political, and military history onto...

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The Literary Afterlife of the Korean War

Joseph Darda

American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 79–105.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2865199

Published: 01 March 2015

.... It was Korea, they remind us, that provided the rationale for building a permanent standing military and a global network of more than seven hundred military installations around the world. Those mining this history include some of the most acclaimed American novelists writing today: Ha Jin in War Trash ( 2004...

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The “Comfort” Of Critical Consolidation: Pedagogy, Ethical Alienation, and Asian American Literary Studies

Tina Chen

American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 331–354.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3861541

Published: 01 June 2017

... in relation to “comfort women”/military sex slaves/ halmoni both as a figuration of “complex personhood” (Gordon 1997 , 4–5) and as an interdisciplinary “term of analysis and history rather than personhood” (Chuh 2003a , 9), this article argues that ethical alienation as pedagogical practice can lead us...

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The Logic of Left Alone: The Pioneers and the Conditions of U.S. Privacy

Jeffrey Insko

American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 659–685.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-042

Published: 01 December 2009

...Jeffrey Insko A familiar refrain in U.S. history, “leave me alone” has long been the preferred locution with which one affirms one's right to privacy. Insko's essay investigates a conceptual incoherence at the heart of the various, incompatible definitions and applications of the right to privacy...

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The Korean War, the Cold War, and the American Novel

Steven Belletto

American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 51–77.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2865187

Published: 01 March 2015

...Steven Belletto From a Cold War literary and cultural studies perspective, the Korean War (1950–1953) is a distinctive moment in US cultural history. This essay proposes that there are two broad phases of Korean War literature: the first phase is work written in the 1950s and early 1960s generally...

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Fabulously Procedural: Braid , Historical Processing, and the Videogame Sensorium

Patrick Jagoda

American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 745–779.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2367346

Published: 01 December 2013

..., stabilized as a form during the late Cold War, and became a cultural dominant in the midst of the current proliferation of digital media. This history is far from smooth. Videogames have been shaped by forces as diverse as American counterculture and military R&D (Brand 1972). They are indebted...

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Remembering World War I in America A Shadow on Our Hearts: Soldier-Poetry, Morality, and the American War in Vietnam The Hell of War Comes Home: Imaginative Texts from the Conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq Bodies at War: Genealogies of Militarism in Chicana Literature and Culture

Stephen Cushman

American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 172–175.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8056672

Published: 01 March 2020

... University Press 2020 The National Mall in Washington, DC, includes a landscape of monuments testifying to the indivisibility of war from the emblems and abstractions that have helped to shape many cherished fictions of nationhood. The history of that nationhood is not limited to its military history...

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Charles Fuller's Southern Specter and the Geography of Black Masculinity

Riché Richardson

American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 7–32.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-1-7

Published: 01 March 2005

... to their consolidation as the 221st Chemical Smoke Generating Com- pany. Fuller thus uses C.J. to challenge many of the military’s histori- cal stereotypes about black men from the South. Unlike Cobb, who is wracked by venereal diseases, C.J. is conscientious about protecting himself from infection. He has wisdom...

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Native American Life-History Narratives: Colonial and Postcolonial Navajo Ethnography

American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 192.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-80-1-192-b

Published: 01 March 2008

... with religious themes. Rumors of War and Infernal Machines: Technomilitary Agenda-Setting in American and British Speculative Fiction. By Charles E. Gannon. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Little- field. 2005. 311 pp. Cloth, $82.50; paper, $26.95. Emerging from both military history and literary criticism...

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Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the “Outsider” and Loujon Press

American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 196.

“Unquestioned Citizenship”: History, Poetry, and Black and Native Military Service in Hampton Institute’s Southern Workman

The Black Atlantic Monthly : Nicholas Said and the Limits of Literary Citizenship

The Literary Afterlife of the Korean War

The “Comfort” Of Critical Consolidation: Pedagogy, Ethical Alienation, and Asian American Literary Studies

The Logic of Left Alone: The Pioneers and the Conditions of U.S. Privacy

The Korean War, the Cold War, and the American Novel

Fabulously Procedural: Braid , Historical Processing, and the Videogame Sensorium

Remembering World War I in America A Shadow on Our Hearts: Soldier-Poetry, Morality, and the American War in Vietnam The Hell of War Comes Home: Imaginative Texts from the Conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq Bodies at War: Genealogies of Militarism in Chicana Literature and Culture

Charles Fuller's Southern Specter and the Geography of Black Masculinity

Native American Life-History Narratives: Colonial and Postcolonial Navajo Ethnography

Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the “Outsider” and Loujon Press

Next to the Color Line: Gender, Sexuality, and W. E. B. Du Bois

Anglo-American Modernity and the Mediterranean

Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate: A Tale of the Times

Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life. Vol. 2: The Public Years

Postmodern Humanism in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Reconciling the Void

Faith and Fiction: Christian Literature in America Today

Rumors of War and Infernal Machines: Technomilitary Agenda-Setting in American and British Speculative Fiction

The Atlantic World and Virginia, 1550–1624

Nineteenth-Century American Fiction on Screen

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