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The Artist as Outsider in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf

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Katherine Sugg
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 203–204.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-203
Published: 01 March 2003
..., beyond a quantitative presence, of the African American voice in the public arena. Stephen Knadler, Spelman College 6815 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:1 / sheet 207 of 252 The Artist as Outsider in the Novels...
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Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the “Outsider” and Loujon Press

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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 196.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-80-1-196
Published: 01 March 2008
... 2008 General Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the “Outsider” and Loujon Press . By Jeff Weddle. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2007. xiii, 220 pp. $28.00. Brief Mention Editions Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate: A Tale of the Times. By Walt Whitman. Ed...
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Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America

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Alan Nadel
American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 596–598.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2296713
Published: 01 September 2013
...Alan Nadel Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” . By Foley Barbara . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2010 . xi, 386 pp. Cloth , $99.95 ; paper , $29.95 . A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion...
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Jeremiah’s Scribes: Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England Empowering Words: Outsiders and Authorship in Early America Writing the Rebellion: Loyalists and the Literature of Politics in British America

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Dennis Moore
American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 391–394.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3533350
Published: 01 June 2016
...Dennis Moore Jeremiah’s Scribes: Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England . By Neuman Meredith Marie . Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press . 2013 . x, 265 pp. Cloth , $69.95 ; e-book, $69.95 . Empowering Words: Outsiders and Authorship in Early America...
View articletitled, Jeremiah’s Scribes: Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England Empowering Words: <span class="search-highlight">Outsiders</span> and Authorship in Early America Writing the Rebellion: Loyalists and the Literature of Politics in British America View PDF for article titled, Jeremiah’s Scribes: Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England Empowering Words: <span class="search-highlight">Outsiders</span> and Authorship in Early America Writing the Rebellion: Loyalists and the Literature of Politics in British America
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Thinking Outside the Book Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound What Is Your Quest? From Adventure Games to Interactive Books

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Carol Colatrella
American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 630–632.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3149525
Published: 01 September 2015
...Carol Colatrella Thinking Outside the Book . By Rohrbach Augusta . Amherst : Univ. of Massachusetts Press . 2014 . xiii , 161 pp. Cloth, $80.00 ; paper, $24.95 . Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound . By Emerson Lori . Minneapolis : Univ...
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Dying Instruction: Puritan Pedagogy in Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Molly Farrell
American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 243–269.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-001
Published: 01 June 2010
... racial outsiders and mark them as separate from the religious educators who taught and cared for them. Stowe drew these strategies from James Janeway's seventeenth-century Token for Children storybooks, which evangelicals actively reprinted and adapted for use in Sunday schools in Stowe's time...
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Reflexivity’s Ontological Turn: From Cybernetics to Autopoiesis in “The Circular Ruins” and The People of Paper

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T. J. Martinson
American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 729–753.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10950779
Published: 01 December 2023
...T. J. Martinson Abstract While postmodern metafiction (or reflexive fiction ) is commonly positioned outside the scope of the Ontological Turn due to metafiction’s association with postmodernism’s insistence on “world as text,” this article argues that metafiction’s proximity to scientific theories...
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Within and without Raced Nations: Intratextuality, Martin Delany, and Blake; or the Huts of America

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Katy Chiles
American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 323–352.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-005
Published: 01 June 2008
... to think about “texts within texts” that demonstrates the tensions that arise when individuals or entities exist both inside and outside various national or textual totalities. The novel's serialization also enacts a type of history that compresses different periods into the briefer time of the novel's...
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“Times When Greater Disciplines Are Born”: The Zora Neale Hurston Revival and the Neoliberal Transformation of the Caribbean

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Patricia Stuelke
American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 117–145.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2395537
Published: 01 March 2014
... Marshall’s novel Praisesong for the Widow (1983) and Audre Lorde’s biomythography Zami (1982), the essay demonstrates how US black feminist literature used Hurston’s work as a stimulant and script for representing the Caribbean as a free zone of individual autonomy and desire outside of hegemonic...
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“Where No X-Man Has Gone Before!” Mutant Superheroes and the Cultural Politics of Popular Fantasy in Postwar America

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Ramzi Fawaz
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 355–388.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266090
Published: 01 June 2011
...”—a figure popularized in Marvel Comics's acclaimed X-Men series—whose genetic difference from humanity positioned the superhero as a cultural outsider akin to racial, gender, and sexual minorities struggling for political recognition in the post–Civil Rights period. In this essay, Fawaz theorizes...
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“It’s Good to Be Shifty”: The Local Democracies of Old Southwestern Humor

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D. Berton Emerson
American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 273–301.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2079161
Published: 01 June 2013
... decision making existing alongside or outside the abstracting, normalizing tendencies of elitist republican ideology; they are unreceptive to traditional social hierarchies and civic institutions that supplement the Constitutionally managed nation-state; and they often engage in a more radical version...
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“For Ought Is Known”: Hearsay, Antislavery, and the Golden Rule in Colonial North America

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Jeffrey Glover
American Literature 11792387.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11792387
Published: 07 March 2025
... lent credence to early antislavery efforts. Yet defenders of slavery also used the same reports to argue that African nations were outside of rules-based legal order and therefore eligible for perpetual enslavement. Jeffrey Glover For Ought Is Known : Hearsay, Antislavery, and the Golden Rule...
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The Epistemology of the Ursuline Convent in New Orleans

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Liz Polcha
American Literature 11792395.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11792395
Published: 07 March 2025
... an outside to settler colonialism’s walls. This way of reading thus locates anticolonial meaning in the discrepancies between the documents that speculatively visualized the convent and the convent’s enduring physical edifice. Ultimately, this article argues that reading across these multifarious genres...
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The History of Jewish American Literary History: A Critical Genealogy of Emergence

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Benjamin Schreier
American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 121–150.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7335373
Published: 01 March 2019
...Benjamin Schreier Abstract This article takes the cliché of Jewish American literary breakthrough in the late 1950s as an opportunity to examine the perverse professional legibility of the Jewish American literary field: everyone knows about it, but few scholars outside the field take it seriously...
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Lovelorn Columns: A Genre Scorned

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Jean M. Lutes
American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 59–90.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7335349
Published: 01 March 2019
... simply render irrelevant the question of genuine emotional expression. Using a complex masquerade of gender and race, columnists shifted counsel outside the bounds of interpersonal exchange, forged an anonymous, recursive imaginative field, and generated glimmers of an ethics of intimacy. Copyright ©...
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Preface: Thoreau Symposium

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Patrick Thomas Morgan, Priscilla Wald
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 1–3.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1959517
Published: 01 March 2013
... the relevance of a writer—known for more than a cen- tury as, in part, a “nature writer”—to meditations on surfaces and depths, insides and outsides. Thoreau perhaps acts as a particularly constructive conduit for such an outer-inner discourse because, as each essay points out in a different way, he...
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On Lingering and Being Last: Race and Sovereignty in the New World Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism

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Hester Blum
American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 591–593.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2296686
Published: 01 September 2013
...; paper, $29.95. A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America. By Grace Elizabeth Hale. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2011. xi, 386 pp. $29.95. “Inside” and “outside” are complicated, interdependent concepts that con- tinually worry the idea...
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Spectacular Blackness: The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic Specters of Democracy: Blackness and the Aesthetics of Politics in the Antebellum United States Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature

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Evie Shockley
American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 593–596.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2296695
Published: 01 September 2013
...; paper, $29.95. A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America. By Grace Elizabeth Hale. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2011. xi, 386 pp. $29.95. “Inside” and “outside” are complicated, interdependent concepts that con- tinually worry the idea...
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Mythohistorical Interventions: The Chicano Movement and Its Legacies of Space and Mind: Cognitive Mappings of Contemporary Chicano/a Fiction

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José E. Limón
American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 598–600.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2296722
Published: 01 September 2013
... in store for us. Evie Shockley, Rutgers University DOI 10.1215/00029831-2296695 Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man”. By Bar- bara Foley. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press. 2010. xi, 386 pp. Cloth, $99.95; paper, $29.95. A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle...
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Private Bodies, Public Texts: Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics Reading Embodied Citizenship: Disability, Narrative, and the Body Politic Toys and Tools in Pink: Cultural Narratives of Gender, Science, and Technology

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Lisa Lynch
American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 600–603.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2322595
Published: 01 September 2013
.../00029831-2296695 Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man”. By Bar- bara Foley. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press. 2010. xi, 386 pp. Cloth, $99.95; paper, $29.95. A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America. By Grace...
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