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A Wayward Art: Battle-Pieces and Melville's Poetic Turn
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 91–119.
Published: 01 March 2010
... sensibility, Marrs demonstrates, not only leads him to conjoin the South's rebellion to an extended series of upheavals, from the bloody coups of ancient Rome to the peasant rebellions of medieval France, but also stimulates the very form of his poetry, in which damaged rhymes, broken meters, and twisted...
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Igorots and Indians: Racial Hierarchies and Conceptions of the Savage in Carlos Bulosan's Fiction of the Philippines
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 843–866.
Published: 01 December 2000
... his family’s poverty and lack of education as part
of this effort to construct a Filipino peasant identity.5 Despite the nos-
talgia of his nativist focus, Bulosan engages Western discourse and
colonial policy by putting...
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Toward a Definition of Caribbean American Regionalism: Contesting Anglo-America's Caribbean Designs in Mary Seacole and Sui Sin Far
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American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 293–322.
Published: 01 June 2008
... to the laboring and peasant populations.13 These vernacu-
lar boardinghouses amounted to a collective of independently owned
and operated female businesses that provided a striking visual con-
trast to housing and business space provided by the male-dominated
Panama Railroad Company to its white American...
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Charles Brockden Brown's Biloquial Nation: National Culture and White Settler Colonialism in Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist
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American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 459–496.
Published: 01 September 2001
... of
her might, compared with which his own is diminished to insignifi-
cance, only the misery, peril, and distress that would compass the
man who was thrown to its mercy. So the simple-minded, and, for
the most part, intelligent Savoyard peasant, (as Herr von Sassure
relates,) unhesitatingly...
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Aesthetics at the Limits of the Nation: Kant, Pound, and the Saturday Review
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 525–547.
Published: 01 September 2004
... aestheticism and
fascism were not only real but proudly advertised. The Pisan Cantos
Kant, Pound, and the Saturday Review 539
wore its politics on its sleeves. Canto LXXIV begins by mourning the
deathofMussolini:
The enormous tragedy of the dream in the peasant’s bent...
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The Provision Ground in New York: Claude McKay and the Form of Memory
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 273–300.
Published: 01 June 2012
... from his
environment: in preparation for his trip, McKay tells us, “I did a lot
of planting. With the help of the peasants I planted yams and conga
peas, black-eyed peas and red peas as well as sweet potatoes, yams
and like things.”20 Because McKay financed his journey to become a
poet...
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Caribbean Waves: Relocating Claude McKay and Paule Marshall
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 880–881.
Published: 01 December 2000
...-
piction of nearly all peasants in Banana Bottom, in fact, exposes his own in-
ternalization of the very Western ideas of superiority that he wishes to de-
nounce Marshall, in her treatment of the adults in Brown Girl, Brownstones...
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Aztlán’s Asians: Forging and Forgetting Cross-Racial Relations in the Chicana/O Literary Imagination
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 563–589.
Published: 01 September 2013
... geographies over those of Asia
and then denying differences between the class politics of Chicana/o
migrant laborers and Vietnamese peasants. In this sense, Vietnam
Campesino does much more than link Chicana/os and Asians within
global structures of US hegemony across distinct geopolitical spaces...
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Houses of Contention: Tar Baby and Essence
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 613–641.
Published: 01 September 2018
...—and disempowered black men in a social order that simultaneously granted and euphemized the seigniorial slave-master’s sexual access to his slaves. Thus, in her foreword to Tar Baby , Morrison ( 2004 , xii) describes the Tar Baby as “the sticky mediator between master and peasant, plantation owner and slave...
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The Godfather and American Culture: How the Corleones Became “Our Gang.”; Class, Language, and American Film Comedy
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 458–460.
Published: 01 June 2003
... in
understanding history as progressively lonelier stages of development toward
self-realization, it also has the broadly Catholic immigrant-ethnic charge of
Old World tribalism, peasant skepticism, and familial blood-obsession. Some...
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What The Bluest Eye Knows about Them: Culture, Race, Identity
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American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 141–168.
Published: 01 March 2006
... established social sciences recognized in
one another a similar attentiveness to the facts of ethnic life, and that
these discourses borrowed concepts and evidence from one another
during this time. William Thomas and Florian Znaniecki’s The Polish
Peasant in Europe and America, for example, an important...
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From Eye to We: Richard Wright's 12 Million Black Voices , Documentary, and Pedagogy
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 549–583.
Published: 01 September 2006
... speak like a book’’ (64). Thus, the flow
of sympathy that seems to encircle middle-class (white) reader and
peasant (black) folk in the photograph is revealed by the text to be
short-circuited at various points. Recognition of the black folk as part
of the national family, in other words, must...
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Plantation Modernity: Gone with the Wind and Irish-Southern Culture
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 505–530.
Published: 01 September 2013
...
the white Southern elite with impoverished Irish peasants, as victims
of an ineluctable imperial-capitalist modernity, is perhaps most evi-
dent in a scene in which Scarlett compares the siege of Atlanta to the
massacre at Drogheda and declares that William Tecumseh Sher-
man is worse than Oliver...
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Literatures of Exile and Return: Jack Kerouac and Quebec
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 589–615.
Published: 01 September 2012
... in the diaspora, the migration of about 900,000 Francophones,
overwhelmingly of peasant background, to the United States mainly
between 1840 and 1930;9 in 1901, 37 percent of all French Canadians
lived in the United States, 24 percent of them in New England (about
55 percent lived in Quebec...
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Darkness on the Edge: Revisionary Black Radicalism in the Depression Era
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 573–584.
Published: 01 September 2022
...” characters are condensations of, on one hand, the “antecapitalist” values that displaced peasants carry with them to industrial spaces and, on the other, the “lumpen” tendency to elude categorization and assimilation to social norms (108). The theme of doubly marginalized subjects recurs in the final chapter...
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The Many Ecologies of AI
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 337–349.
Published: 01 June 2023
... revitalization, Wang writes: “The new socialist countryside will be filled with peasants starting e-commerce businesses, small-scale manufacturing, new data centers, and young entrepreneurial workers returning to their rural homes. Rural Revitalization envisions the use of blockchain and mobile payment...
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Merchants, Money, and the Economics of “Plain Style” in William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 695–720.
Published: 01 December 2000
... and
concealment. Fernand Braudel explains that the face-to-face trading
practices of the public market, where peasants arrived from the coun-
try to exchange goods for money with which they in turn purchased
other goods, were...
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“The Truth about Us”: Pastoral, Pragmatism, and Paterson
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American Literature (2003) 75 (3): 601–627.
Published: 01 September 2003
... or peasant, represented as simpler in nature than the poet
and thus often politically marginal. According to William Empson, the
sophisticated poet has a ‘‘double attitude’’ toward the shepherd, feel-
ing ‘‘in one way...
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Postcritical Howells: American Realism and Liberal Guilt
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 229–255.
Published: 01 June 2020
... offered an unambiguous, if unsettling, response: one can (and should), like the famous author, renounce one’s claims to wealth, title, and social privilege, abandon the profession of writing, and commit oneself to living as a peasant. Writing from the “Editor’s Study” at Harper’s Monthly , Howells ( 1993...
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Brief Mention
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American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 203–215.
Published: 01 March 2004
... Wedding (1933), Guillén’s poems
Brief Mention 205
about Cuban liberation (1948), and Roumain’s story of Haitian peasant revolt
in Masters of the Dew (1947)—underscore Hughes’s commitment to global
liberation.
The Humane Particulars...
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