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American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 413–415.
Published: 01 June 2006
... Ostrowski. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2004. x, 261 pp. $39.95. Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form: Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century America . By Margaret Reid. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2004. xxxii, 259 pp. Cloth, $69.95; paper, $22.95. Book Reviews
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View articletitled, Canons by Consensus: Critical Trends and American Literary Anthologies; Books, Maps, and Politics: A Cultural History of the Library of Congress, 1783-1861; Cultural Secrets as <span class="search-highlight">Narrative</span> <span class="search-highlight">Form</span>: Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century America
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The Narrative Forms of Southern Community
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 892–893.
Published: 01 December 2000
... Literature 72:4 / sheet 202 of238
The Narrative Forms of Southern Community. By Scott Romine. Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State Univ. Press. 1999. xi, 226 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $24.95.
Scott Romine...
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The Health of the State: Modern US War Narrative and the American Political Imagination, 1890–1964 This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel as Global Form
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 902–904.
Published: 01 December 2019
... discussion around narratives of “foreign” wars, Vincent reinforces a postnationalist view of the United States and its relationship to militarism. Debjani Ganguly’s This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel as Global Form advances this critical impulse in light of more recent cultural history...
View articletitled, The Health of the State: Modern US War <span class="search-highlight">Narrative</span> and the American Political Imagination, 1890–1964 This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel as Global <span class="search-highlight">Form</span>
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Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction; Re-Forming the Past: History, the Fantastic, and the Postmodern Slave Narrative
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American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 845–847.
Published: 01 December 2007
..., this
narrative frontier led novelists to rely on forms already familiar to readers—
sentimentalism, melodrama, and mesmerism—to give shape and order to
otherwise unfathomable market shifts. Zimmerman is particularly skilled at
glossing topical contexts, which he then uses as interpretive rubrics...
View articletitled, Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction; Re-<span class="search-highlight">Forming</span> the Past: History, the Fantastic, and the Postmodern Slave <span class="search-highlight">Narrative</span>
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Neo-Slave Narratives: Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary Form
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 888–889.
Published: 01 December 2000
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Rebecca Wanzo, Duke University
Neo-Slave Narratives: Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary Form. By Asraf
Rushdy. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 1999. 232 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $17.95...
View articletitled, Neo-Slave <span class="search-highlight">Narratives</span>: Studies in the Social Logic of a Literary <span class="search-highlight">Form</span>
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American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 192–194.
Published: 01 March 2006
... Narratives. By Eleanor Ty. Toronto, Ont.: Univ. of Toronto Press. 2004. xv, 227 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $24.95. America's Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945. By Colleen Lye. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2005. x, 342 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $21.95. 2006 Book...
View articletitled, The Fiction of South Asians in North America and the Caribbean: A Critical Study of English-Language Works since 1950; The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American <span class="search-highlight">Narratives</span>; America's Asia: Racial <span class="search-highlight">Form</span> and American Literature, 1893-1945.
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for article titled, The Fiction of South Asians in North America and the Caribbean: A Critical Study of English-Language Works since 1950; The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American <span class="search-highlight">Narratives</span>; America's Asia: Racial <span class="search-highlight">Form</span> and American Literature, 1893-1945.
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The Genius of Place: The Geographic Imagination in the Early Republic American Road Narratives: Reimagining Mobility in Literature and Film Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 657–660.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Lauren Coats The Genius of Place: The Geographic Imagination in the Early Republic . By Christopher C. Apap . Durham : Univ. of New Hampshire Press . 2016 . xiii, 282 pp. Cloth , $85.00 ; paper, $40.00 ; e-book, $34.99 . American Road Narratives: Reimagining Mobility...
View articletitled, The Genius of Place: The Geographic Imagination in the Early Republic American Road <span class="search-highlight">Narratives</span>: Reimagining Mobility in Literature and Film Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social <span class="search-highlight">Form</span>
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 609–612.
Published: 01 September 2020
... counterdictatorial imaginary, mobilizing the novel genre to connect “structures of power, narrative control, and social location” (15). Each chapter centers on one novel—allowing a deep exploration of the relationship between content and form. Especially attentive to form, chapter 1 examines the competing dictators...
View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Forms</span> of Dictatorship: Power, <span class="search-highlight">Narrative</span>, and Authoritarianism in the Latina/o Novel Hispanicism and Early US Literature: Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and the Origins of US National Identity Where the New World Is: Literature about the U.S. South at Global Scales
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for article titled, <span class="search-highlight">Forms</span> of Dictatorship: Power, <span class="search-highlight">Narrative</span>, and Authoritarianism in the Latina/o Novel Hispanicism and Early US Literature: Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and the Origins of US National Identity Where the New World Is: Literature about the U.S. South at Global Scales
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Seriality and Settlement: Southworth, Lippard, and The Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 31–59.
Published: 01 March 2014
... works and the narrative forms of recursion and repetition that result produce an aesthetic engagement with the past that emphasizes simultaneity and overlap. Highlighting the presence of multiple temporalities as they are represented in landscapes and topographies within popular works frequently read...
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“Be Cautious of the Word `Rebel'”: Race, Revolution, and Transnational History in Martin Delany's Blake; or, The Huts of America
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 153–179.
Published: 01 March 2009
... narrative forms. However, Doolen argues that Martin Delany uses the novel form to identify how the fictions of white supremacy established the terms and categories of U.S. historiography. Recognizing that white-authored histories helped maintain the institutions of slavery, Delany attempts to remove African...
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More than “A Matter of Deciding To”: Citizenship, Border Positionality, and Irresolution in Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 691–716.
Published: 01 December 2024
... in the novel’s narrative form—which refuses closure. The article uses the term border positionalities to describe the unresolved and un settled tension between the characters’ Indigenous and settler political identities. It contends that the incommensurability of these social and political identities makes...
View articletitled, More than “A Matter of Deciding To”: Citizenship, Border Positionality, and Irresolution in Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman
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“The Complexity of Loss Itself”: The Comics Form and Fun Home ’s Queer Reparative Temporality
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 377–405.
Published: 01 June 2018
... the contribution of women writers to turn-of-the-century discourses of US nationalism. She is currently working on a project on queer time and narrative form. José Esteban Muñoz ( 2009 , 35) understands “our remembrances and their ritualized tellings—through film, video, performance, writing, and visual...
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The Anti- corrido of George Washington Gómez: A Narrative of Emergent Subject Formation
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 111–140.
Published: 01 March 2008
... of Paredes's narrative satisfies the conventions of both forms even as it critiques these narratives and the subjectivities that they produce. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Leif The Anti-corrido of George Washington Gómez:
Sorensen A Narrative of Emergent Subject Formation...
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Unsuitable for Children? Adult-erated Age in Underground Graphic Narratives
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 283–313.
Published: 01 June 2018
... of childhood memory becomes the mode of adult desire within the graphic narrative’s execution. As Fawaz ( 2017 , 336) writes, “Comic strip form allows an inarticulable affective intensity —Wojnarowicz’s conflicting feelings of rage and desire amid the chaos of the AIDS epidemic—to be conveyed through...
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Organic Shrapnel: Affect and Aesthetics in September 11 Fiction
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 153–174.
Published: 01 March 2011
.... In this sense, the novel can be read as con-
sciously attesting to the disturbing resiliency of narrative form in the
face of the event that was supposed to change everything.5
This resiliency runs contrary to what many critics would like to see
from September 11 fiction because of assumptions about...
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“The One Place Where Money Makes No Difference”: The Campus Novel from Stover at Yale Through The Art of Fielding
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American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 67–91.
Published: 01 March 2016
... such a necessary form in contemporary American society.
Keywords campus novel, college sports, higher education, Chad Harbach, meritocracy
Owen Johnson’scampusnovelStover at Yale
(1912) rehearses a familiar narrative about college life. The idealistic
protagonist Dink Stover comes...
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Fugitive Obscura: Runaway Slave Portraiture and Early Photographic Technology
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 93–125.
Published: 01 March 2009
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and remaining skeptical of the truthful qualities of the photographic
image, the fugitive notice, and the slave narrative itself, Douglass and
Jacobs enact a complicated form of resistance that alters our under-
Runaway Slave Portraiture 97
standing of both...
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“Marked for Demolition”: Mary McCarthy’s Vietnam Journalism
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 363–387.
Published: 01 June 2013
... to hybrid forms, most commonly dubbed
“nonfiction novels” or “new journalism,” in an effort to rejuvenate narra-
tive form. Whether these writers tried to rescue conventional realism
or to supplant it, narrative journalists addressed the problem of knowl-
edge, and its relation to narrative voice...
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Charles Brockden Brown and the Conundrum of Complicity
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 665–693.
Published: 01 December 2016
..., that the conundrum of complicity served as the prompt for a synoptic mode of reading that Brown introduced to American fiction. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 blame gothic narrative form individualism history of the novel causative acts Charles Brockden Brown’s four major novels...
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Obeah’s Sensations: Rethinking Religion at the Transnational Turn
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 715–741.
Published: 01 December 2012
... representations of obeah, a creole religion practiced by enslaved persons in the British Caribbean, arguing that such narratives use religious experience to craft an alternative transnationalism. Works such as William Earle’s 1800 novel Obi; or, The History of Three-Fingered Jack and similar chapbooks, penny...
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