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Journal Article
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 85–112.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Stephanie Li Duke University Press 2007 Stephanie Resistance, Silence, and Placées:
Li Charles Bon’s Octoroon Mistress
and Louisa Picquet
In 1850, Mary Walker, a free woman of color, filed a
petition in the Fourth District Court...
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Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 563–589.
Published: 01 September 2005
... on the limited grid of representa-
tion that chattel slavery produced about the people that were called
masters, mistresses, and slaves. On one hand, Reed uses his writ-
ing as a boco would his witchcraft, breathing life into stereotypes
of resistance, submission, dominance, benevolence, brutality...
Journal Article
American Literature (2024) 96 (3): 411–441.
Published: 01 September 2024
... At one moment in Susanna Louise Patteson’s Pussy Meow: The Autobiography of a Cat , published in Philadelphia in 1901 , “Meow” learns about her “namesake” as her “mistress” sits talking to a friend (Patteson 1901 : 107). As the mistress describes her childhood in Switzerland (where Patteson was born...
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Journal Article
American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 7–34.
Published: 01 March 2009
... in constant fear of recapture as a
fugitive slave until her mistress Cornelia Grinnell brokered, explic-
itly against her wishes, her legal freedom. Her children and brother,
however, were free from such fears as they had been brought into
the North legally, with a master’s consent...
Journal Article
American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 33–59.
Published: 01 March 2020
... the floor. In a panic and “not knowing what to do, I seized the fire shovel in my perplexity, and was trying to shovel up my tender charge, when my mistress called to me to leave the child alone and then ordered that I be taken out and lashed for my carelessness” (1868: 20). Certainly, Keckley’s “perplexity...
Journal Article
American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 751–782.
Published: 01 December 2000
... hyperbolizes the sentiments
these novels present. In speaking of her long-dead master and mis-
tress, a ‘‘negro woman’’ declares: ‘‘ ‘I loved my master and mistress
likemyownsoulOh!theyweresogood—sokind.Allon[sic...
Journal Article
American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 553–575.
Published: 01 September 2007
... her with her homework”—but then attributed the white
woman’s support to inexperience at mistress-ship rather than caring
concern.38 More recently, Marli Weiner has shown the ways in which
people locked into simultaneous labor and domestic relationships
found ways to establish...
Journal Article
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 29–55.
Published: 01 March 2010
...-
cal nation personified—daughter of Washington, mistress of the spy,
mother of the union between North and South.
After her brother Henry is sentenced to death by a Continental
tribunal, Frances ascends to Birch’s hut in the hope of finding him.
Instead, when she looks in a window...
Journal Article
American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 874.
Published: 01 December 2000
...-
der roles and cultural values. Ultimately, the language of maternity is used
to encompass both slave mistresses and those they enslaved.
In chapter 4, Patton turns her analysis to the novels of Frances Harper...
Journal Article
American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 873–874.
Published: 01 December 2000
...
to encompass both slave mistresses and those they enslaved.
In chapter 4, Patton turns her analysis to the novels of Frances Harper and
Pauline Hopkins, maintaining that both authors try to revise notions of ‘‘true...
Journal Article
American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 883–885.
Published: 01 December 2019
..., her cruel white mistress? ...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 609–611.
Published: 01 September 2015
... of color or slave—becomes a site
upon which various racial fears and fantasies get written. For example, she
traces the literary rise of the tragic mulatta figure, who has no sexual agency
nor autonomy, as a response—and effort to contain—the unruly public mixed-
race mistress figures...
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Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 611–613.
Published: 01 September 2015
... of the tragic mulatta figure, who has no sexual agency
nor autonomy, as a response—and effort to contain—the unruly public mixed-
race mistress figures (such as the “West Indian mulâtresse” and the New
Orleans “placée”) whose relative financial and sexual independence posed a
threat to the racial...
View articletitled, Experience and Experimental Writing: Literary Pragmatism from Emerson to the Jameses Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Literature, 1945–1975
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Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 769–798.
Published: 01 December 2015
... but nothingness, and
that man’s achievements were all finally perishable—cosmic jokes, like
man himself” (5). When Theodore discovers that his mistress, Lelia
Ballesteros, has been raped, murdered, and mutilated, his abstract pes-
simism is confronted with the violent realities of a senseless world. Her...
Journal Article
American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 701–724.
Published: 01 December 2010
..., obtained per-
mission to bake at night so that she might create a fund for her chil-
dren’s freedom. Both texts recount how she graciously loaned three
hundred dollars to her mistress, who never repaid her. As one might
expect by now, the later version suppresses the sense of outrage
we...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 657–663.
Published: 01 September 2005
... to undated letters as well as let-
ters that were located too late to be included chronologically in the preceding
volumes.
General
Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America’s First Poet. By Charlotte Gordon. New
York: Little, Brown. 2005. xiii, 337 pp. $27.95.
Gordon, a poet herself, finds...
Journal Article
American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 707–738.
Published: 01 December 2008
... might be summarized
together: the bastard daughters of dead mistresses discover their
paternities through erotically charged relationships with their half-
brothers, and then everybody dies. At first glance, The Power of Sym-
pathy might seem to bear little resemblance to Pierre...
Journal Article
American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 221–228.
Published: 01 March 2001
... the story
of Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved mistress, daughter, and granddaughters, a
story inspired by rumors of Jefferson’s intimate relationships with his slaves.
The text is followed by articles, essays, letters, speeches, sermons, and ex-
cerpts from other books that were either direct sources...
Journal Article
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 389–411.
Published: 01 June 2011
... that sur-
prises even his mistress until she orders him to stop. Soon thereafter,
she ritualistically cleans her filthy, knowledge-filled prize. Korga’s
understanding, however artificial, of the discursive processes by
which subjectification, with all of its implications, is effected...
Journal Article
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 769–798.
Published: 01 December 2006
... a marriageable, exchangeable daughter. But Randall multiplies
Mitchell’s traffic in women. The plantation’s white mistress also wants
to play wet-nurse to her own wet-nurse’s brown child. She
pulled me onto her lap and I suckled at her breast till her warm milk
filled me. As always, it was a cheering...
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