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The Origin of Others Goodness and the Literary Imagination: Toni Morrison

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Eric Lott
American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 600–602.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10679293
Published: 01 September 2023
...Eric Lott [email protected] The Origin of Others . By Toni Morrison . Foreword by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Cambridge, MA : Harvard Univ. Press . 2017 . xvii, 114 pp. Cloth, $22.95 . Goodness and the Literary Imagination: Toni Morrison .Ed. Davíd Carrasco...
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Fictions of American Prehistory: Indians, Archeology, and National Origin Myths

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Annette Kolodny
American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 693–721.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-4-693
Published: 01 December 2003
...Annette Kolodny Annette Kolodny 2003 Annette Fictions of American Prehistory: Kolodny Indians, Archeology, and National Origin Myths 6986 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:4 / sheet 5 of 255 In the midst of a national debate...
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Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War Literary Indians: Aesthetics and Encounter in American Literature to 1920 Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation Modernity and Its Other: The Encounter with North American Indians in the Eighteenth Century

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Kelly Wisecup
American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 585–588.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8616211
Published: 01 September 2020
... and the Origins of a Literary Nation . By Sarah Rivett . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2017 . 400 pp. Cloth, $41.95 ; paper, $29.95 , e-book available. Literary Indians: Aesthetics and Encounter in American Literature to 1920 . By Angela Calcaterra . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North...
View articletitled, Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War Literary Indians: Aesthetics and Encounter in American Literature to 1920 Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the <span class="search-highlight">Origins</span> of a Literary Nation Modernity and Its Other: The Encounter with North American Indians in the Eighteenth Century View PDF for article titled, Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War Literary Indians: Aesthetics and Encounter in American Literature to 1920 Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the <span class="search-highlight">Origins</span> of a Literary Nation Modernity and Its Other: The Encounter with North American Indians in the Eighteenth Century
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Forms of Dictatorship: Power, Narrative, 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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Jenna Grace Sciuto
American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 609–612.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8616307
Published: 01 September 2020
...-book. Hispanicism and Early US Literature: Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and the Origins of US National Identity . By John C. Havard . Tuscaloosa : Univ. of Alabama Press . 2018 . viii, 212 pp. Cloth, $44.95 ; e-book, $44.95 . Forms of Dictatorship: Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina/o...
View articletitled, Forms of Dictatorship: Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina&#x2F;o Novel Hispanicism and Early US Literature: Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and the <span class="search-highlight">Origins</span> of US National Identity Where the New World Is: Literature about the U.S. South at Global Scales View PDF for article titled, Forms of Dictatorship: Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina&#x2F;o Novel Hispanicism and Early US Literature: Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and the <span class="search-highlight">Origins</span> of US National Identity Where the New World Is: Literature about the U.S. South at Global Scales
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The Origins of American Literature Studies: An Institutional History; Critique for What? Cultural Studies, American Studies, Left Studies

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Joseph Helminski
American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 656–658.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-036
Published: 01 September 2010
...Joseph Helminski © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 The Origins of American Literature Studies: An Institutional History . By Elizabeth Renker. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2007. xii, 219 pp. $98.00. Critique for What? Cultural Studies, American Studies, Left Studies...
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Rome Reborn on Western Shores: Historical Imagination and the Creation of the American Republic; The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural Origins of the Constitution; Democracy's Spectacle: Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing

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Andy Doolen
American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 188–190.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-069
Published: 01 March 2011
... Origins of the Constitution. By Eric Slauter. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2009. xii, 373 pp. $40.00. Democracy's Spectacle: Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing. By Jennifer Greiman. New York: Fordham Univ. Press. 2009. xi, 276 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $24.00...
View articletitled, Rome Reborn on Western Shores: Historical Imagination and the Creation of the American Republic; The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural <span class="search-highlight">Origins</span> of the Constitution; Democracy&#x27;s Spectacle: Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing View PDF for article titled, Rome Reborn on Western Shores: Historical Imagination and the Creation of the American Republic; The State as a Work of Art: The Cultural <span class="search-highlight">Origins</span> of the Constitution; Democracy&#x27;s Spectacle: Sovereignty and Public Life in Antebellum American Writing
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Counterfeit Detectors: The Literary Origins of the US Secret Service

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Todd Barosky
American Literature (2025) 97 (1): 65–91.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11597513
Published: 01 March 2025
...Todd Barosky Abstract This article examines the US Secret Service, a federal agency created during the Civil War to protect the greenback against counterfeiters, and its literary origins. It explores an overlooked chapter in the history of American crime and detective fiction, one that has special...
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The Gothic Origins of Global Health

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Sari Altschuler
American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 557–590.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4160894
Published: 01 September 2017
...Sari Altschuler Abstract Global health traces its origins back to a single moment in 1854 when John Snow eradicated cholera with a map. It is a nice story, but it’s a myth, a fantasy of empiricism. The modern global health approach did begin with the nineteenth-century, worldwide cholera pandemics...
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Unspeakable Violence: Remapping US and Mexican National Imaginaries Chicano Nations: The Hemispheric Origins of Mexican American Literature

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Richard T. Rodríguez
American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 197–199.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2079269
Published: 01 March 2014
...Richard T. Rodríguez Unspeakable Violence: Remapping US and Mexican National Imaginaries . By Guidotti-Hernández Nicole M. . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2011 . xviii , 374 pp. Cloth , $94.95 ; paper , $25.95 . Chicano Nations: The Hemispheric Origins of Mexican American...
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Chang and Eng Reconnected: The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the Nineteenth Century Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in US Drama and Fiction

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Clare Callahan
American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 394–396.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2647045
Published: 01 June 2014
...Clare Callahan Chang and Eng Reconnected: The Original Siamese Twins in American Culture . By Wu Cynthia . Philadelphia : Temple Univ. Press . 2012 . xiii , 203 pp. Cloth , $84.50 ; paper , $28.95 ; e-book , $28.95 . Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the Nineteenth...
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Imaginary Citizens: Child Readers and the Limits of American Independence, 1640-1868 Disciplining Girls: Understanding the Origins of the Classic Orphan Girl Story Freud in Oz: At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature Girls and Their Comics: Finding a Female Voice in Comic Book Narrative

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Sarah Wadsworth
American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 405–408.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2646937
Published: 01 June 2014
...Sarah Wadsworth Imaginary Citizens: Child Readers and the Limits of American Independence, 1640-1868 . By Weikle-Mills Courtney . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press . 2013 . x , 265 pp. $55.00 . Disciplining Girls: Understanding the Origins of the Classic Orphan Girl Story...
View articletitled, Imaginary Citizens: Child Readers and the Limits of American Independence, 1640-1868 Disciplining Girls: Understanding the <span class="search-highlight">Origins</span> of the Classic Orphan Girl Story Freud in Oz: At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature Girls and Their Comics: Finding a Female Voice in Comic Book Narrative View PDF for article titled, Imaginary Citizens: Child Readers and the Limits of American Independence, 1640-1868 Disciplining Girls: Understanding the <span class="search-highlight">Origins</span> of the Classic Orphan Girl Story Freud in Oz: At the Intersections of Psychoanalysis and Children’s Literature Girls and Their Comics: Finding a Female Voice in Comic Book Narrative
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The American Aeneas: Classical Origins of the American Self

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Eric Ashley Hairston
American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 431–433.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-2-431
Published: 01 June 2003
...- tionshipwiththeworldweinhabit. Jonathan Beecher Field, University of Chicago The American Aeneas: Classical Origins of the American Self. By John C. Shields. Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press. 2001. xlv, 432 pp. $45.00...
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Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson; The Origins of African American Literature: A History of the African American Literary Presence, 1680-1865

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Stephen Knadler
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 201–203.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-201
Published: 01 March 2003
... Book Reviews 201 Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson. By Keith Clark. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2002. x, 164 pp. $34.95. The Origins of African American Literature...
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The Origins of the American Detective Story; Brown Gumshoes: Detective Fiction and the Search for Chicana(o) Identity; True Crime: Observations on Violence and Modernity

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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 187–189.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-074
Published: 01 March 2008
... © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 The Origins of the American Detective Story . By LeRoy Lad Panek. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2006. viii, 227 pp. Paper, $35.00. Brown Gumshoes: Detective Fiction and the Search for Chicana(o) Identity . By Ralph E. Rodriguez. Austin...
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Figure 2 “Advertisement: WomaNews Workshops and Page Spread.” Originally in WomaNews, March 1984. Courtesy of Lesbian Herstory Archives

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in “The Lesbian Norman Rockwell”: Alison Bechdel and Queer Grassroots Networks > American Literature
Published: 01 June 2018
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Figure 1 Photograph of the “Ice-Cream Sextet,” original Broadway production of Street Scene, Adelphi Theater, 1947. Courtesy of the Weill-Lenya Research Center, Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, New York

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in Street Scenes: Langston Hughes, Lyric Pop, and Walter Benjamin’s Baudelaire > American Literature
Published: 01 September 2024
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in Rest Cure versus Rest Tour: The Queer Routes of White Women’s Health > American Literature
Published: 01 March 2025
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Figure 11 “Advertisement: WomaNews 5th Anniversary! Variety Show!” Originally in WomaNews, November 1984. Courtesy of Lesbian Herstory Archives

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in “The Lesbian Norman Rockwell”: Alison Bechdel and Queer Grassroots Networks > American Literature
Published: 01 June 2018
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Figure 12 “Advertisement: Get Yourself a WomaNews T-Shirt!” Originally in WomaNews, April 1984. Courtesy of Lesbian Herstory Archives

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in “The Lesbian Norman Rockwell”: Alison Bechdel and Queer Grassroots Networks > American Literature
Published: 01 June 2018
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Figures 3–8 Letter-writing lesbians. Originally in WomaNews, October 1983–July/August 1984. Courtesy of Lesbian Herstory Archives

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Published: 01 June 2018
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