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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 203–204.
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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American Literature (2008) 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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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 596–598.
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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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 391–394.
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...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 630–632.
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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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 243–269.
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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American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 729–753.
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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American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 323–352.
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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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 117–145.
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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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 355–388.
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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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 273–301.
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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American Literature 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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American Literature 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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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 121–150.
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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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 59–90.
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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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 1–3.
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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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 591–593.
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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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 593–596.
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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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 598–600.
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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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 600–603.
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...