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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 611–635.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Christopher Newfield The United States has long been seen as the world's leader in higher education, but in fact its academic outcomes have been stagnating or falling for years. Newfield shows that the current funding model for higher education is not the solution to this educational crisis but its...
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American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America; Model-Minority Imperialism
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American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 850–852.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Josephine Nock-Hee Park Duke University Press 2007 American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America . By Allan Punzalan Isaac. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2006. xxx, 205 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $20.00. Model-Minority Imperialism . By Victor Bascara. Minneapolis...
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Published: 01 September 2022
Figure 1 Jacob A. Riis, The Inspector’s Model: Photographing a Rogue (c. 1895). Courtesy of Museum of the City of New York. 90.13.2.2
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 402–405.
Published: 01 June 2014
...Sonnet Retman Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America . By Jun Helen Heran . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2011 . x , 198 pp. Paper , $22.00 . Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing...
View articletitled, Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America <span class="search-highlight">Modeling</span> Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing the White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black Jewish Imaginary
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Transcending Boundaries: The Network Concept in Nineteenth-Century American Philosophy and Literature
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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 493–521.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Regina Schober The network is a figure of thought that began to emerge as a concrete physical formation and as a conceptual model long before the digital revolution. Following recent scholarship on historical network epistemology, this essay traces such network thinking in nineteenth-century US...
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The Sticky Web of Medical Professionalism: Robert Herrick’s The Web of Life and the Political Economy of Health Care at the Turn of the Century
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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 583–610.
Published: 01 September 2014
... jostle against one another in a marketplace largely unregulated by any external authority. Herrick implicitly associates this energizing, though unsettling, model of US health care with both the labor movement (the novel is set in the same year as Chicago’s Pullman strike) and certain aspects of the New...
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in “The General Practice of the Nation”: Walt Whitman, Language, and Computerized Search in the Nineteenth-Century Archive
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Published: 01 September 2016
Figure 3. The Distance Machine’s ngram chart for the word boss in Google’s US English corpus. The gray area indicates the period in which the word is relatively infrequent according to the model that is used to highlight words.
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Immunity’s Racial Empire: Virality, Melancholy, Whiteness
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 513–541.
Published: 01 September 2020
... modeled life in late liberalism’s dematerialized time-space compressions. Moreover, if the immune system reified life in this radical expansion, its preternatural competency for discrimination between self and other simultaneously availed a means of retaining racial hygiene in this brave new world...
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National Wounds and Gendered Harm: Reframing Abortion Pain in The Worst of Times
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 269–295.
Published: 01 June 2024
... basis of feminist community. Against these discourses, the semi-anonymous narrators of The Worst of Times disrupt hierarchized, universal, and exclusionary models of pain. Rather, this article argues that, in constructing life writing centered around the painful experience of illegal abortion...
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Readerly Revisions: Letters to the Editor in the Crisis
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 257–280.
Published: 01 June 2020
... past, present, and future issues of the magazine and, therefore, evoke a temporality that exceeds the critical capacities of close reading. To address how editors, readers, and authors responded to each other over time, I combine close reading with topic modeling, a method of computational text...
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From Sympathy to Empathy: Anzia Yezierska and the Transformation of the American Subject
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 361–388.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Ann Mikkelsen The work of Anzia Yezierska presents a challenge to early-twentieth-century models of personhood, citizenship, and reading based on common assumptions regarding the nature of sympathy. Yezierska's deployment of what Mikkelsen terms “aesthetic empathy” draws on an emergent discourse...
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O Cant: Singing the Race Music of Jean Toomer's Cane
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American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 725–752.
Published: 01 December 2010
...—modeled on African American spirituals—could be appreciated and sung by readers of various ethnic backgrounds. This essay argues that their musicality and performability were ultimately intended to promote interracial empathy and to elide racial difference. Other topics of the essay include turn...
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Reflexivity’s Ontological Turn: From Cybernetics to Autopoiesis in “The Circular Ruins” and The People of Paper
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American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 729–753.
Published: 01 December 2023
... and body-as-text metafiction, the latter emerges as a uniquely useful heuristic in the Ontological Turn for modeling molecular embodiment and nonhuman agency. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 cybernetics autopoiesis metafiction Ontological Turn...
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Extra Consciousness, Extra Fingers: Automatic Writing and Disabled Authorship
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American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 487–512.
Published: 01 September 2023
... to Gertrude Stein and Lucille Clifton, who center extrasensory perceptions in the compositional scene. Foregrounding mind and body, they upend the privileging of the rational male subject who dominates accounts of authorship in literary studies. By modeling collaborative forms of writing that exceed...
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“In Accord with the Spirit of American Democracy”: Tracing the Network of the US Armed Services Editions
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American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 671–699.
Published: 01 December 2023
... conflict of World War II, but also elucidates the dialectic of power and agency modeled by the form of the network as articulated in the council’s reader-producing experiment itself. What is ultimately at stake in positing an uneven network of actors who negotiate, maintain, extend, and possibly even...
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Antebellum Apathy: A Study of Indifference in Melville
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 529–556.
Published: 01 September 2017
..., and response that have enjoyed critical favor in recent years as a broadly conceived affect studies. If apathy is not a foil for the study of affect, it does extend the emotional range of our criticism by modeling a way to formulate feelings—those associated with the literary subjects of our scholarship...
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The Normative Broken: Melinda Gebbie, Feminist Comix, and Child Sexuality Temporalities
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 347–375.
Published: 01 June 2018
.... The comic thus models the temporalities of surviving trauma. The feminist temporalities of survivorship here also model utopian futures that are homosocial, queer, often ecstatic, and resistant to normative scripts of what should give women comfort. Undergirded by a radical feminist perspective that sees...
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Emersonian Terrorism: John Brown, Islam, and Postsecular Violence
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 333–360.
Published: 01 June 2010
... American fascination with the figure of the Muslim terrorist as a symptom of the modern West's own contradictory and incomplete process of secularization. At the same time, also under the influence of John Brown and his volunteer army, Emerson articulated a model for practical action that depended neither...
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In the “Training Center of the Skillful Servants of Mankind”: Carlos Bulosan's Professional Filipinos in an Age of Benevolent Supremacy
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American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 381–406.
Published: 01 June 2008
..., in their attempts to position themselves as included subjects. The article examines the ways Bulosan revises Luce's arguments in order to study the implications of benevolent assimilation, the colonial policy of tutelage for Filipinos. Although the notion of a model minority discourse is conventionally understood...
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The Digital Afterlives of This Bridge Called My Back : Woman of Color Feminism, Digital Labor, and Networked Pedagogy
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 255–278.
Published: 01 June 2017
... marginalized readers and writers who produce it, at once urging new considerations of academic labor and modeling alternatives to neoliberal university systems. The problem of marginalized users on social networks doing pedagogical labor without pay or even consent is not unique to Tumblr. However...
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