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American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 191–193.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Joshua Logan Wall The Impossible Jew: Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History . By Schreier Benjamin . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2015 . x, 270 pp. Cloth , $89.00 ; paper, $25.00 ; e-book available. Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 202–204.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Kathleen McClancy The Oriental Obscene: Violence and Racial Fantasies in the Vietnam Era . By Chong Sylvia Shin Huey . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2012 . xii , 364 pp. Cloth , $94.95 ; paper , $26.95 . Welcome to the Suck: Narrating the American Soldier's Experience...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 849–851.
Published: 01 December 2009
..., and the Marriage Crisis . By David R. Shumway. xi, 269 pp. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2003. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $22.00. The Novel and the Obscene: Sexual Subjects in American Modernism . By Florence Dore. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2005. xii, 167 pp. $50.00. Book Reviews...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (4): 713–715.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Guyora Binder [email protected] Legal Fictions: Constituting Race, Composing Literature . By Karla FC Holloway . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2014 . xvi, 158 pp. Cloth, $89.95 ; paper, $23.95 ; e-book available. Literary Obscenities: U.S. Case Law and Naturalism...
Journal Article
American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 347–375.
Published: 01 June 2018
... the taboo or obscene in order to address sexual and gender inequalities. These comics suggest that the obscene can push against purity narratives attached to womanhood, narratives that potentially stigmatize all girls and women. Lost Girls keeps the taboos of children’s sexuality and incest central...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 331–358.
Published: 01 June 2015
... that failed to conform to its editorial point of view. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 editorship history of the book obscenity cool Hugh Hefner References Abrahamson David . 1996 . Magazine-Made America: The Cultural Transformation of the Postwar Periodical . Cresskill, NJ...
Journal Article
Down on All Fours: Atavistic Perversions and the Science of Desire from Frank Norris to Djuna Barnes
American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 525–562.
Published: 01 September 2001
... in a fit of laughter, obscene and touching Their actions
intensify simultaneouslygrinning and cryingmovingheadto
headuntil they both lie down, exhausted, the dog’s ‘‘head flat along
her knees’’ (N, 169–70).
For readers of Frank Norris’s novel Vandover and the Brute (1895),
whose main character ends...
Journal Article
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 779–810.
Published: 01 December 2001
... aspirations to-
ward liberty—the peculiar strength of Douglass’s Narrative lies in
its delineation of a state in which power and obscenity become in-
terwoven with each other and, consequently, mutually reinforcing.
Whereas Dickens disavows obscenity, Douglass theatricalizes it, turn-
ing it into a form...
Journal Article
American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 497–524.
Published: 01 September 2001
...-
ing obscene publications. So long as ‘Leaves of Grass’ may be sent
through the mails, the country is safe from over-prudery, at least 14
Since it was precisely the mailing of Leaves of Grass that was later
banned, at least one of Whitman’s friends, William Douglas O’Connor,
suspected...
Journal Article
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 220–222.
Published: 01 March 2003
..., Steiner develops an account of artistic experi-
ence and social responsibility by using five case studies from the ‘‘battle-
ground of contemporary culture’’ (209): the Mapplethorpe obscenity trial...
Journal Article
American Literature (2024) 96 (1): 113–137.
Published: 01 March 2024
... . Tobin James . 1984 . “ On the Efficiency of the Financial System .” Lloyd’s Bank Review 153 : 1–15. United States . 1970 . Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography . Washington, DC : Government Printing Office . United States . 1986 . Final Report of the Attorney...
Journal Article
American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 174–176.
Published: 01 March 2018
... against black bodies but eliminated the obscene culmination of that violence. Brown left his readers, in other words, haunted by the sadism that endlessly iterated across nineteenth-century mass culture, but he pulled the curtain down at the last moment. As Sanborn suggests, Brown might well be the “most...
Journal Article
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 218–220.
Published: 01 March 2003
..., Steiner develops an account of artistic experi-
ence and social responsibility by using five case studies from the ‘‘battle-
ground of contemporary culture’’ (209): the Mapplethorpe obscenity trial...
Journal Article
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 57–84.
Published: 01 March 2007
... of ourselves we might ordinarily repress,” personifying “the
unconscious and the instinctual.”16 More important, the desire to eat
her suggests an obscene cannibalistic drive that ignores the edicts of
humanist ideologies that separate human from animal by forbidding
the consumption of human flesh...
Journal Article
American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 307–327.
Published: 01 June 2021
...: in other words, the obscene” (19). Edelman then counterposes Afropessimistic scholars like Wilderson and Sexton, who insist upon the impossibility of blackness within society as it is configured, 4 with Fred Moten, who follows Baldwin’s dogged persistence by way of obligatory optimism. 5 Also like...
Journal Article
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 389–411.
Published: 01 June 2011
... traumatized communities—have been chas-
tened, matured if you will, by a pandemic is hardly a contemporary
phenomenon. Instead, one of the more obscene realities that progres-
Death and Desire in Stars in My Pocket 391
sive intellectuals must confront is the belief...
Journal Article
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 185–188.
Published: 01 March 2013
... as well as the genre’s many internal dis-
tinctions as it proliferates in an array of media forms.
Ramzi Fawaz, George Washington University
DOI 10.1215/00029831-1959652
The Oriental Obscene: Violence and Racial Fantasies in the Vietnam Era. By Sylvia
Shin Huey Chong. Durham, NC: Duke Univ...
Journal Article
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 188–190.
Published: 01 March 2013
... also need to understand SF’s differ-
ence from other modes of storytelling as well as the genre’s many internal dis-
tinctions as it proliferates in an array of media forms.
Ramzi Fawaz, George Washington University
DOI 10.1215/00029831-1959652
The Oriental Obscene: Violence and Racial...
Journal Article
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 190–192.
Published: 01 March 2013
... as well as the genre’s many internal dis-
tinctions as it proliferates in an array of media forms.
Ramzi Fawaz, George Washington University
DOI 10.1215/00029831-1959652
The Oriental Obscene: Violence and Racial Fantasies in the Vietnam Era. By Sylvia
Shin Huey Chong. Durham, NC: Duke Univ...
Journal Article
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 193–195.
Published: 01 March 2013
... also need to understand SF’s differ-
ence from other modes of storytelling as well as the genre’s many internal dis-
tinctions as it proliferates in an array of media forms.
Ramzi Fawaz, George Washington University
DOI 10.1215/00029831-1959652
The Oriental Obscene: Violence and Racial...
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