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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 477–507.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Meina Yates-Richard Abstract Building on black women’s critical negotiations of black nationalist discourse, this essay names the matrix of black maternal sounds, songs, and approximated womb-spaces as the site of production for black nationalist ideologies and black male identity. Listening...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 463–496.
Published: 01 September 2017
... comprised of nation-states with entangled nationalist rhetorics and narratives—including Columbus’s “discovery”—underwrites the biography’s unprecedented critiques of nationalist historiography. Examining the politics motivating this work offers new insights for discussions of the textual morphologies...
FIGURES
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 117–145.
Published: 01 March 2014
... and cultural nationalist gender and sexual binds. By juxtaposing the spatiotemporalities and affects of these fantasies alongside those of Ronald Reagan’s speeches and CIA literature produced in the wake of the Grenada invasion, the essay shows how these Hurstonian fantasies of the Caribbean worked to both...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 477–504.
Published: 01 September 2012
... of our examination of romanticism in the United States foregrounds the importance of an international literary and sociocultural framework. In this light, romanticism appears less an ideological retreat from modernity or a nationalistic vehicle than a transnational, dialectical engagement...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 137–157.
Published: 01 March 2015
... surveys contemporary fictions of alternate history, particularly Philip Roth’s The Plot against America ( 2004 ). The essay contends that historical fantasy offers a particular mode of engagement with the past—one that steers a middle course between nationalist chauvinism and revisionist debunking. ©...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 153–179.
Published: 01 March 2009
... Americans from a nationalist discourse that automatically referred their appeals for racial justice back to a failed white revolutionary project. Doolen argues that the transnational shift that structures Blake —a movement between the United States and Cuba—constituted Delany's rejection of American...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 583–611.
Published: 01 September 2009
... the war ended. This gap results in part from familiar ethnocentrism in publishing and in part from a deleterious formulation of masculine authenticity in Chicano nationalist texts, which favored representations of aggressive Chicano protestors over those of ambivalent Chicano soldiers. In contrast...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 901–903.
Published: 01 December 2017
... in the black nationalism of the 1960s and 1970s but incorporate contemporary reformulations of black nationalist thought. While we tend to think of black nationalist thought as static, Radical Aesthetics defines it in terms of its debates, its public disagreements, and its divisions that “helped to shape...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 627–629.
Published: 01 September 2017
... unachievable and insatiable desires for and fantasies of an ethnically cleansed America that never was. But as Funchion and Kennedy articulate for us, that absence is part of the antagonistic allure of the past. The object of these nationalistic desires is not some placid prestige of whiteness but a violent...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 197–199.
Published: 01 March 2014
... nationalism to task given its seemingly inextricable ties with patriar-
chy and homophobia, there remains much to be said about the myriad func-
tions of nationalist discourse for Chicana/o intellectual projects. In the books
by Nicole Guidotti-Hernández and Marissa López, we clearly see where else...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 755–786.
Published: 01 December 2016
... accounts of Uncle Tom within Haiti. Second, my expanded archive reveals a number of antinomies in Haitian nationalist appropriations of Stowe. Although writers and editors sought to praise Haiti through Uncle Tom , these revalorizations also highlight the dangers of uncritically examined nationalisms...
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Aztlán’s Asians: Forging and Forgetting Cross-Racial Relations in the Chicana/O Literary Imagination
American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 563–589.
Published: 01 September 2013
... on the interethnic elements of Chicana/o activism during the
1960s and 1970s, for example, reveals that the Third World Left’s inter-
racial and internationalist political ideologies were often mired in
nationalist principles that focused on “questions of identity, [local] com-
munity empowerment, antiracism...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 145–147.
Published: 01 March 2021
...—Washington Irving, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—and the Western literary influences on their Chinese contemporaries—Yung Wing, Dong Xun, Qiu Jin—Da concludes that their diverse cross-cultural work generally results in nationalist values. Irving’s invocation of Henry Hudson’s Northwest...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 185–187.
Published: 01 March 2017
.... This framework has highlighted the role of Africans in the creation of American cultures, while hemispheric and Pacific approaches also have illuminated indigenous, Latin American, and Asian perspectives. These methods all challenge the nationalist master narratives that promulgate uniformly Anglo-European...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 836–838.
Published: 01 December 2014
..., and gendered logics that underlie nationalist propaganda
and commercial capitalism.
Book Reviews 837
“Signifying ethnography,” which has a secondary but nonetheless sub-
stantive place in Real Folks, squarely draws our attention to Zora Neale Hur...
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“Fragmentary and Inconclusive” Violence: National History and Literary Form in The Professor's House
American Literature (2003) 75 (3): 571–599.
Published: 01 September 2003
... wariness of their nationalistic consumption in
the early twentieth century. The Professor’s House has been described
as ‘‘fragmentary and inconclusive its form marked by the ‘‘violence’’
with which the middle section fractures...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 175–184.
Published: 01 March 2011
... of preserving rather
than transcending race; for her, “interracial intimacy is potentially
utopic because it makes race visible” (14).
In a formulation that queers black nationalist logic, Dunning con-
tends that “miscegenation does not contribute to a blending of any
kind...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2002
... and nationalistic (Cuban) newspapers that breaks the old
boundaries (both physical and metaphorical) of nation-formation and
engages the hemispheric dimensions of racism, slavery, and imperial-
ism. The presence of nationalistic Cuban writing in the United States
is like a double-edged knife that cuts through...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 902–904.
Published: 01 December 2019
.... After 1989 (her historical origin point), global relations require new thinking about how to organize our discussions of the literary. Specifically, the critics engaged in the “world literature debate” have called attention to the resilience of nationalist categories in courses and books that focus...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 243–271.
Published: 01 June 2012
... lecture appearances and to Symzonia pre-
sumes—even stipulates—an imperial drive to polar exploration; this
nationalist focus is widely seen in Anglo-American polar exploration
and literary culture.
But as I have begun to suggest, the polar regions never fully reso-
nate in the register...
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