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American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 879–881.
Published: 01 December 2003
... Joy Harjo’s poem ‘‘Deer Dancer Sara Lundquist, University of Toledo The Visionary Moment: A Postmodern Critique. By Paul Maltby. Albany: SUNY Press. 2002. xi, 176 pp. Cloth, $54.50; paper, $17.95...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 523–551.
Published: 01 September 2018
... “Balloon Hoax” (1844), see Tresch 1997 . 25 On the link between spiritualist mediumship and modernist literary aesthetics, see Sword 2002 . 24 The liminality of the moment of dying is a recurring concern in Emily Dickinson’s poetry; see, for instance, “I heard a Fly buzz—when I died...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 867–869.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Bob Perelman 2005 Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy . By Marjorie Perloff. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. xxxiv, 307 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $29.95; The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics . By Barrett Watten. Middletown, Conn...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 187–189.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Hildegard Hoeller A Man's Game: Masculinity and the Anti-Aesthetics of American Literary Naturalism. By John Dudley. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. viii, 222 pp. $35.00. Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism. By Jennifer L. Fleissner. Chicago: Univ...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 903–906.
Published: 01 December 2003
...- ings of familiar texts and in its often lively assessment of the state of American 6986 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:4 / sheet 215 of 255 studies today. Bryan Wagner, University of California, Berkeley American Studies in a Moment...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 437–438.
Published: 01 June 2000
... Chopin’s life. Similarly, her frequent overreading of Chopin’s texts to find hid- den references to real-life personalities and events distracts from the other- wise solid analysis she provides. Many key moments in Chopin’s life are de...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 167–194.
Published: 01 June 2021
... intimacy with physically present Black and Indigenous peoples. Although the portrait is said to depict Georges’s father, who readers know is also the man’s white enslaver, the object remains hidden from view in a bag until the final moments of the sketch, which concludes with the father’s beheading...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 583–610.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Phillip Barrish Robert Herrick’s novel The Web of Life (1900), a self-proclaimed work of literary realism, opens a critical window onto an urban “web” of intersecting practices, institutions, and professional formations at a moment when key dimensions of the US health-care system as we know...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 485–511.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Philomena Polefrone Abstract This essay argues that American literary naturalism engages with the Anthropocene at the moment it began to be visible, the turn of the twentieth century, and specifically identifies the role of finance in precipitating the crisis. Frank Norris’s The Octopus (1901...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 35–58.
Published: 01 March 2021
... premised on the significance of consumer data as the raw material of economic interpretation and fixated on mathematical analysis as a source of knowledge about value. Marginalism in economic theory and realism in American literary practice were contemporaneous efforts to mediate value at a moment...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 255–282.
Published: 01 June 2021
... of contemporary literature and film; the key prose authors discussed are Octavia E. Butler, Margaret Atwood, Ernest Callenbach, and Kim Stanley Robinson. These texts are used to identify patterns of thought that have become habitual in the cultural moment of the Anthropocene, and they are explored as critiques...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 497–523.
Published: 01 September 2021
... to ironize assumptions of white universalism and uncritical postracialism. Studious deracination challenges medical discourse’s “color-blind” approach to healthcare and enables a reconsideration of comparative racialization in a moment of accelerating social disintegration and blasted landscapes. Indeed...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 269–295.
Published: 01 June 2024
.... In a moment when abortion legislation faces continued assaults, these narratives invite a consideration of how the embodied, personal pain of abortion can facilitate creative models of community that rethink the power structures that restrict reproductive autonomy. [email protected] Copyright © 2024...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 553–581.
Published: 01 September 2010
... the sometimes monolithic focus on modernist or experimental writing in assessments of the postwar moment as an antiwar watershed. Vincent emphasizes war narrative's continuities with prior Progressive-Era longings for compulsory civic foundations as well as the bourgeoning culture of national security...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 March 2011
..., contrasting it with the other board games of the period as a way of understanding the competing perspectives on selfhood that existed in this moment. Using Bradley's innovations in Life to codify these differences, Guerra then explores Whitman's use of the figure in “Song of Myself.” Whereas Bradley's game...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 217–246.
Published: 01 June 2013
... to theorize, dramatically and imaginatively, a set of relations that reflected their conceptualizations of conflict and strife within their nineteenth-century moment—conceptualizations, too, of US power if we understand this power as an arrangement that makes possible certain orders or types of conflict. ©...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 303–331.
Published: 01 June 2013
... interrogates US mass culture at a crucial moment in its foreign expansion, during a period when many Europeans feared an Americanization of their cities and cultures concomitant with US-funded postwar rebuilding. The text’s fictive geographies represent a Faulknerian spatial imagination unthinkable...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 623–650.
Published: 01 December 2022
... of industrial capitalism. Despite seemingly regressive views of women’s place in the home and society, Beecher’s writings on domesticity during the historic transition to fossil fuels speak to our own moment of climate and public health crises. To reassess Beecher in light of the environmental humanities...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 651–676.
Published: 01 December 2022
... takeover of American publishers and the rise of Black studies programs, this article reconstructs a lost moment in both cultural history and business history. Starting with the story of The Black Book , a “scrapbook-history” of African American experience edited by Morrison and published by Random House...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 459–486.
Published: 01 September 2023
... of allotment. Against the norms enforced by that policy, in peyote meetings the alteration of sentience could unbind the day-to-day reproduction of property-bearing personhood. Lines of collective transport opening from the passage of ecstasy thus composed a historical moment in refusal of allotment drives...