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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 489–516.
Published: 01 September 2015
... by which many ethnologists classified race. Stowe comes to emphasize nature's mutability and interconnectedness, and invites her readers to consider human nature as part of this dynamic natural order. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Harriet Beecher Stowe slavery botany plant studies...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 327–351.
Published: 01 June 2012
..., documentary theory, and science studies— Lynch reads these newer documentaries to illuminate how changing political, material, and economic realities have reshaped how opponents of nuclear energy imagine the relationships between body, place, and planet. She suggests that this reimagining is predicated...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 723–735.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Elizabeth Maddock Dillon; Kate Simpkins Abstract Key aspects of the plantation economy, centered in the early Caribbean, include the theft of Indigenous land, agricultural monocropping, and racial capitalism as well as an epistemological effort to separate out humans, animals, and plants...
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American Literature 11792403.
Published: 07 March 2025
... thought. So quickly becoming cognizant of so many things formerly unknown plants, peoples, continents, hemisphere perhaps suggested to sixteenth- and seventeenthcentury Europeans that their habitual way of knowing itself required American Literature, Volume 97, Number 2, June 2025 DOI 10.1215/00029831...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 485–511.
Published: 01 September 2020
...) and The Pit (1903) offer a case study of a naturalist Capitalocene aesthetics, one capable of capturing global capitalism’s destructive planetary agency. As a student at the University of California at Berkeley, Frank Norris was exposed to Joseph LeConte’s influential theory of the Psychozoic era, a proto...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2024
... avenues in environmental justice studies to think about history, cultural production, and rights beyond the human and strengthens Native sovereignty through evidence of historic Native relations to land beyond property law. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 691–716.
Published: 01 December 2024
... otherwise. Taking up conversations in Indigenous studies pertaining to the limits of state recognition and the possibilities of generative forms of refusal, the article expands upon Mohawk scholar Audra Simpson’s (2014) model of refusal with an emphasis on irresolution. This irresolution is manifested...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 445–472.
Published: 01 September 2021
... in spectacular ways, thus acknowledging the experience of those who live in relation to necropolitical regimes while refusing to naturalize this violence or render it unremarkable. Within the sphere of literary studies (as a formal feature), geomemory names a major element of contemporary African American...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 243–271.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Hester Blum In 2007, a Russian submarine planted a titanium flag on the seabed under the North Pole, laying the groundwork for Russia’s claim to Arctic oil and gas resources. Blum’s essay explores the prehistory of Russia’s polar land grab in terms of the influential (if satirized) early-nineteenth...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 263–293.
Published: 01 June 2019
... did men. I begin with “Coral Reefs” (1858, 239), a periodical essay by Sarah Josepha Hale, in which Hale draws on contemporary reef studies to posit that familiar “coral ornaments” in fact comprise minute interactions of animal and plant, living and nonliving, and thus affirm a fluid material world...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 433–454.
Published: 01 September 2015
... housed at the Library Company of Philadelphia . Gernes Todd . 2001 . “Recasting the Culture of Ephemera.” In Popular Literacy: Studies in Cultural Practices and Poetics , edited by Trimbur John , 107 – 27 . Pittsburgh, PA : Univ. of Pittsburgh Press . Goddard Mary , Album...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 761–789.
Published: 01 December 2017
... might not see or hear. This essay argues for the continuing importance of apocalyptic narrative forms in representations of environmental risk to disrupt conservative realisms that maintain the status quo. Taking the ecological disaster of nuclear waste as my case study, I examine two treatments...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 585–588.
Published: 01 September 2020
... and events like war, captivity, planting, and printing took place within a web of diplomatic and kin relationships that remain today. The four books reviewed here together represent two emergent paths in early Native studies. One path follows Indigenous knowledge, aesthetic, and political practices...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 297–324.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Catherine Belling Abstract The communication of pain has been figured, in both the canonical work of Elaine Scarry and in biomedical discourse, as bringing pain up from bodily depths to a surface where it is visibly manifest to others. This study of acute physical pain in three popular American...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 273–300.
Published: 01 June 2012
... only insofar
as he believed it would keep him rooted. As McKay later reflected,
his mentor believed that studying at Tuskegee would keep McKay in
contact with “the peasantry and their aspirations and ways of think-
ing.” He continues, “He felt that [the peasantry] was the backbone...
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American Literature 11845230.
Published: 07 March 2025
...Alexander Mazzaferro Alexander Mazzaferro Introduction: New Directions in the Study of New World Knowledge Making An intriguing digression punctuates Edward Water- house s account of the 1622 Powhatan Uprising, the attack on the Virginia colony by members of the Powhatan paramount chiefdom...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 275–303.
Published: 01 June 2014
... . Noble Marianne . 2006 . “ Sympathetic Listening in Frederick Douglass’s ‘The Heroic Slave’ and My Bondage and My Freedom .” Studies in American Fiction 34 , no. 1 : 56 – 76 . Nott Josiah Gliddon George . 1854 . Types of Mankind , 6th ed. Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 475–500.
Published: 01 September 2007
... throughout Susan Cooper’s writings.
Susan Fenimore Cooper was born to James Fenimore Cooper and Susan
Augusta Cooper (previously De Lancey) in 1813 in Cooperstown, New
York, where she lived for thirteen years before traveling and studying
for seven years with her family in Europe, after which she...
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The Plantation Countermelodies of Dunbar and Du Bois: Writing Agropolitical Subjecthood in the Nadir
American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 557–586.
Published: 01 September 2019
... of the Silver Fleece , show how political subjecthood develops in combination with plant matter, particularly agricultural products. Such a view conveys potentially radical processes of black subject formation wherein the agricultural gives rise to new mergers of epistemic and embodied selfhood and where...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 666–668.
Published: 01 September 2017
..., experience, agency, and resistance of the oppressed. This search for minoritarian agency explains in part the deployment of new critical methods of ecocriticism, disability, and animal studies, often within the geographic frame of the “American tropics,” for analyzing slavery, colonialism, and imperialism...
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