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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 204–206.
Published: 01 March 2010
... Multiculturalism . By Christopher Douglas. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2009. vii, 372 pp. $45.00. Realism for the Masses: Aesthetics, Popular Front Pluralism, and U.S. Culture, 1935–1947 . By Chris Vials. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2009. xlii, 232 pp. $50.00. Book Reviews
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 815–839.
Published: 01 December 2018
... frequently appeal to the United States’ allegedly Puritan past, suggesting that the United States is particularly well placed to deal with both radical Islamism and anti-Islamic prejudice because of the ecumenical pluralism that emerged from the colonial crucible of competing denominations. I interrogate...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 333–361.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Odile Harter The Great Depression engendered a special kind of first-person plural, which drove fundamental changes in Marianne Moore’s quoting practice during the period. She moved toward a quotation practice that was less dense, drawn increasingly from mottoes and collective speech, and couched...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 141–166.
Published: 01 March 2008
... as a celebratory model of either an ideal embodied pluralism or a free-floating deconstructive signifier. It presents an alternative model in Islas's use of hybridity for critiquing readerly desires for identity representation and common, everyday habits of thinking of identity in terms of a one-to-one relation...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 753–784.
Published: 01 December 2018
... plural ways in which cultures and their various institutions efface and alter sexual meaning.” Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 devotion poetry queer textual editing Unless proven otherwise, Puritan literature is rarely presumed to be queer. But why? Even scholars at work...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 237–262.
Published: 01 June 2019
... overburdened within the transatlantic antislavery discourse of the mid-nineteenth century. In doing so, “Vincent Ogé” shifts attention from the singular heroism of Louverture to the plurality of contributors that shaped the long history of the Haitian Revolution. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 671–690.
Published: 01 December 2024
... familial claims and materially contain the fragmentary echoes of a collective set of desires. These testimonials refuse a racial and colonial conception of belonging. The article argues that the collaborative political labor of submitting claims captures the plurality of expression in the documents. What...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 218–220.
Published: 01 March 2003
... in the book’s epigraph) that the quest for
‘‘the variety in things’’ should be as central to philosophy as the quest for ‘‘the
world’s unity As a genealogy of the pluralism at the heart of one of the domi-
nant...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 655–682.
Published: 01 December 2014
... . Conceived in Doubt: Religion and Politics in the New American Nation . Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press . ———. 2013 . “ Religious Pluralism in Religious Studies .” In Gods in America: Religious Pluralism in the United States , edited by Cohen Charles L. Numbers Ronald L. , 21 – 42 . New...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 159–186.
Published: 01 March 2015
... profiling, the hatred,
fear, and violence—I think these unifying ambitions merit attention.
To assert a strain of humanist pluralism, however bland, was an act of
contestation. Even discussed at this general level, it seems clear that
these poems work against the incipient language of the Bush...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 644–646.
Published: 01 September 2017
... section examines the keywords world , globe , and planet as they have been used by literary and cultural critics, particularly for the ways they relate to a view of globalization as a monocultural singularity. In contrast, Moraru argues for a dialogical, plural form of planetarism; as he puts...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 783–810.
Published: 01 December 2019
... American literature according to the liberal ethic of “high cultural pluralism,” in which student-writers were encouraged to combine acts of authorial self-making with “a rhetorical performance of cultural group membership preeminently, though by no means exclusively, marked as ethnic.” High cultural...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 663–670.
Published: 01 September 2010
... to a broader audience that might also be interested in the influence
of storytelling.
668 American Literature
Plural Sovereignties and Contemporary Indigenous Literature. By Stuart Christie. New
York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2009. xiv, 279 pp. $84.95.
The imposition of Anglo-European nationality...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 641–644.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of sadomasochistic scenes (173). In Musser’s reading, Williams plays with race while Walker plays with history; she will not argue that either thereby goes so far as to create a space of black female sexual agency, but she does see both practices as opening space for a plurality of sensate experience. She concludes...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 396–398.
Published: 01 June 2015
... rereadings of novels often considered “failed” (Bulosan’s
America Is in the Heart [1946] and Wright’s The Outsider [1953 Keith argues
that both authors recognized that new forms, hybrid forms, and diverse
genres were necessary to the task of exposing the poverty of racial liberal
pluralism and what...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 333–360.
Published: 01 June 2010
...
from the shift in the background conditions for spirituality caused by
the de facto plurality of religion in an increasingly mobile and intercon-
nected world, where a particular faith or faith in general becomes “one
human possibility among others.”14 In American intellectual history,
Emerson...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 821–824.
Published: 01 December 2013
... to capture “the metaphysics of sec-
ularism” as it is materialized in these diverse contexts (10).
Modern effectively renarrates antebellum American religious history. He
argues, “What is most remarkable about this period . . . was not the so-called
flowering of religious pluralism...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 729–760.
Published: 01 December 2005
... superseded national
union as a means of realizing humanity’s full potential.2 In his writings
and addresses on slavery and race, dating from roughly the mid-1840s
to the outbreak of civil war, Emerson seems to have arrived at the
conclusion that the motto epluribusunummust apply to racial plural-
ism...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 549–583.
Published: 01 September 2006
... plural that
convenes and divides groups along lines of class, race, and region.
Given Wright’s enormous stature, Black Voices has received sur-
prisingly little critical attention. But its reliance on pedagogy and col-
lective identity formation makes it a pivotal text for American lit-
erary...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 March 2004
... outside the purer
language of name, man makes language a means . . . and therefore
also, in one part at any rate, a mere sign; and this later results in the
plurality of languages’’ OL 120).
Benjamin’s two meanings for translation clarify the distinction be-
tween Fuller’s and Emerson’s...
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