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The American Play: 1787–2000; The Scene of the Harlem Cabaret: Race, Sexuality, Performance
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 210–212.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Arthur Knight © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 The American Play: 1787–2000. By Marc Robinson. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press. 2009. x, 405 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $28.00. The Scene of the Harlem Cabaret: Race, Sexuality, Performance. By Shane Vogel. Chicago: Univ...
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Stephen Crane's Blue Badge of Courage; The Material Unconscious: American Amusement, Stephen Crane, and the Economies of Play
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American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 411–413.
Published: 01 June 2002
... how children learned in the colonial (and for Crain, nineteenth-
century) United States, and with the help of what books.
Copiously illustrated and beautifully produced, Crain’s The Story of A is a
pleasure to hold, look at, and read. Playful and allusive in her treatment of
texts, Crain’s wide...
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> American Literature
Published: 01 June 2023
Figure 1 TextWorld game play. Source: Côté et al. 2018
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The Shining and the Media Conglomerate; or, How All Work and No Play Made Jack a Creative Artist in the 1970s
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 151–182.
Published: 01 March 2019
... initially tries to produce literary fiction: he has plans “of becoming a major American writer during the next decade” (King 1977 , 268); having published two dozen short stories, he thinks of himself as “well qualified to teach that great mystery, creative writing” (36). While he aspires to write a play...
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Eugene O'Neill and His Eleven-Play Cycle: “A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed”
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American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 208–209.
Published: 01 March 2001
...
Book Reviews 193
for playing Indian and claiming to be an egalitarian abolitionist. It nails Stowe
for sentimentalizing African Americans while endorsing colonization. Even
Moby-Dick—which Powell reads as the conflict of heroic Ahab and his trans-
national crew against the monocultural white...
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Agonistic Audiences: Comic Play in the Early National Theater
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 429–455.
Published: 01 September 2020
... disturbance, including Washington Irving’s famous depiction of a disorderly audience, to demonstrate how patrons cultivated a comic mode of sociality, one that foregrounded and maintained the essential playfulness of social contest. Such comic play acknowledged a horizon of popular enjoyment that stood...
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Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O. J. Simpson
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 670–672.
Published: 01 September 2002
... not be neglected; it is an
important part of the larger picture of the forced migration of people of Afri-
can descent across the Americas over several generations, and of the roles
these people played in the development of numerous societies. Walter John-
son’s Soul by Soul draws attention to the internal...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 213–216.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Stephen Knadler Playing in the White: Black Writers, White Subjects . By Stephanie Li . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2015 . 299 pp. Cloth, $73.00 ; e-book available. Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World . By Cassander...
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Playing the Races: Ethnic Caricature and American Literary Realism; Enter the New Negroes: Images of Race in American Culture; Hoodlums: Black Villains and Social Bandits in American Life
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American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 882–884.
Published: 01 December 2006
...Habiba Ibrahim Duke University Press 2006 Playing the Races: Ethnic Caricature and American Literary Realism . By Henry B. Wonham. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2004. viii, 196 pp. $47.50. Enter the New Negroes: Images of Race in American Culture . By Martha Jane Nadell...
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The Political Plays of Langston Hughes
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 171–172.
Published: 01 March 2002
... women to
claim the identity of writer in the professions of journalism, play writing, and
novel and magazine writing. Her study will be of interest to those in the fields
of education and writing studies, as well as to those working on twentieth-
century women’s writing.
A Group of Their Own...
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How Literature Plays with the Brain: The Neuroscience of Reading and Art Mindful Aesthetics: Literature and the Science of Mind Stories and Minds: Cognitive Approaches to Literary Narrative
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American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 194–197.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Ralph James Savarese Ralph James Savarese , author of one book and editor of three collections, teaches at Grinnell College in Iowa. He spent the academic year 2012–2013 as a neurohumanities fellow at Duke's Institute for Brain Sciences. How Literature Plays with the Brain...
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Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 873–875.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Ann Keniston Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture . By Keyser Catherine . New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers Univ. Press . 2010 . xii, 225 pp. $39.95 . Pink Pirates: Contemporary American Women Writers and Copyright . By Irr Caren . Iowa City...
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“Everything Is Alive”: Moving and Reading in Excess of American Freedom
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 83–109.
Published: 01 March 2018
... and the narrator’s playful—more ludic—rendering of the cat’s movement. While the picture of Tom’s play with Peter depicts intentional and unprovoked violence, we are not supposed to notice Tom’s cruelty or impulse to dominate. We are not supposed to wonder what happens to Peter when he runs out the window and exits...
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State Killing, the Stage of Innocence, and The Exonerated
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 121–151.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Katy Ryan Ryan's essay analyzes the coordination of the innocence argument and sentimentality in Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen's The Exonerated (2003), a documentary play based on interviews with people sentenced to die for crimes they did not commit. The play's composition, performance...
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Gaming Borders: The Rhetorics of Gamification and National Belonging in Papers, Please
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 181–209.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of gamification. Through an analysis of Lucas Pope’s independently produced American video game Papers, Please (2013), this article interrogates gamification as a rhetorical process that communicates how play dynamics sustain the procedural logics of border security and citizenship. Such logics, the game suggests...
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Transforming Geographies of Black Time: How the Free Southern Theater Used the Plantation for Civil Rights Activism
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 587–617.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Julius B. Fleming, Jr. Abstract This essay examines the cultural and political work of the Free Southern Theater, specifically how this company used plantations, porches, and cotton fields in order to build a radical black southern theater in the civil rights movement. Staging plays like Samuel...
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An unknown gentleman, Frederick Buck (c. 1805). 1 and 2: front and back fra...
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in Colonial Relations in Miniature: Affective Networks, Race, and the Portrait in Victor Séjour’s “Le Mulâtre”
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Published: 01 June 2021
Figure 1 An unknown gentleman, Frederick Buck (c. 1805). 1 and 2: front and back frame; 3: miniature portrait on ivory; 4: Bristol glass for rear frame; 5: backing for glass made from playing card; 6: compartment for rear frame, used for holding hair; 7: backing support for ivory. Image courtesy
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Repugnant Aboriginality: LeAnne Howe's Shell Shaker and Indigenous Representation in the Age of Multiculturalism
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 93–119.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Monika Barbara Siebert Surprisingly for a novel evidently invested in representations of contemporary Choctaw traditionalism as a viable alternative to settler society, LeAnne Howe's 2001 Shell Shaker gives unrelenting play to the gruesomeness, horror even, of the traditional rituals it depicts...
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Embodied Politics: Antebellum Vegetarianism and the Dietary Economy of Walden
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 33–60.
Published: 01 March 2013
... antebellum debates about diet and food commodity consumption. A turn to Sylvester Graham's vegetarian movement, however, shows that far from being divorced from civic concerns, the vegetarian dietary theory driving Thoreau's practices at Walden Pond plays a complicated role in the political design of Walden...
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Fabulously Procedural: Braid , Historical Processing, and the Videogame Sensorium
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 745–779.
Published: 01 December 2013
... to purely cognitive. The game uses its formal blends and its play mechanics to complicate how history is typically thought and to imagine how it might be engaged or processed differently. Ultimately, Braid interrogates the impulses that drive videogames and the historical subjects that they produce. ©...
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