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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 417–444.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Suzanne F. Boswell Abstract This essay uncovers the environmental and historical conditions that played a role in cyberspace’s popularity in the 1980s and 1990s. Tracing both fictional and critical constructions of cyberspace in a roughly twenty-year period from the publication of William Gibson’s...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 429–455.
Published: 01 September 2020
... about the relationship between theater and politics in the early United States? How did sovereign patrons of the theater contribute to a broader cultural understanding of the volatile pleasures of popular rule within a democratic republic? Scobs’s happy fusion of audience rule with popular sovereignty...
Journal Article
American Literature (2025) 97 (1): 65–91.
Published: 01 March 2025
... 2025 detective fiction crime fiction paper money nationalism popular sovereign From In the Line of Fire (1993) to Olympus Has Fallen (2013), cinematic depictions of the US Secret Service feature agents thwarting plots to assassinate the president. But this popular narrative obscures...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 553–581.
Published: 01 September 2010
...” and “redemp-
tive future,” making it possible “to be a part of the transtemporal unity
of the state that is the popular sovereign.”31 Loyal to the prerogative
power of the law and the state, sacrifice’s many individuated points
of resonance convened an ideological consensus suturing submerged
gaps...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 573–584.
Published: 01 September 2022
... see these poor individuals, so many of these people almost all of them that we see, are so poor, someone else said, and they are so black. Have you seen their faces? —Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric ( 2014 ) In the popular imagination, poverty is a site of negation...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 591–593.
Published: 01 September 2013
... or the sovereign state is constituted by racialized acts—often
violent—that are both rhetorical and actual; the expression of such acts gen-
erally is either obscured or elided by the dominant ideological power, or
transformed by it to its own imaginative ends. Critical work that tracks the
operations...
Journal Article
American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 593–596.
Published: 01 September 2013
... books
emerge from—and have already been driving—ongoing transnational con-
versations about race and nation, politics and literature, form and theory,
coherence and fracture. As both books argue on their most fundamental lev-
els, the nation or the sovereign state is constituted by racialized...
Journal Article
American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 596–598.
Published: 01 September 2013
... searingly important books
emerge from—and have already been driving—ongoing transnational con-
versations about race and nation, politics and literature, form and theory,
coherence and fracture. As both books argue on their most fundamental lev-
els, the nation or the sovereign state...
Journal Article
American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 598–600.
Published: 01 September 2013
... already been driving—ongoing transnational con-
versations about race and nation, politics and literature, form and theory,
coherence and fracture. As both books argue on their most fundamental lev-
els, the nation or the sovereign state is constituted by racialized acts—often
violent...
Journal Article
American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 600–603.
Published: 01 September 2013
... and literature, form and theory,
coherence and fracture. As both books argue on their most fundamental lev-
els, the nation or the sovereign state is constituted by racialized acts—often
violent—that are both rhetorical and actual; the expression of such acts gen-
erally is either obscured or elided...
Journal Article
American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 604–606.
Published: 01 September 2013
... about race and nation, politics and literature, form and theory,
coherence and fracture. As both books argue on their most fundamental lev-
els, the nation or the sovereign state is constituted by racialized acts—often
violent—that are both rhetorical and actual; the expression of such acts gen...
Journal Article
American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 533–536.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of “wild” spaces and people. Rehearsed in every form of art and popular culture, frontier mythology is also a broken promise, since the moral order, homogeneous social accord, and economic prosperity it ascribes to white settlement never arrived. As such, it prompts Americans’ continuous engagement; we...
Journal Article
American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2002
... a fixture
of a mid-nineteenth-century popular culture enthralled with tales of
expansionist derring-do14 Villaverde set aside his literary ambitions
and served as López’s secretary as the two worked to tap into expan-
sionist currents in the United States.
Cubans in Villaverde’s circle believed...
Journal Article
American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 691–714.
Published: 01 December 2012
... to be understood as sovereign and self-determining poli
ties, rather than objects of ethnographic interest, and over the past
decade, scholars working in nineteenth-century American literary
studies have focused on forms of Native political self-representation,
as against the tendency to treat Native...
Journal Article
American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 389–398.
Published: 01 June 2013
... experimental fiction to popular film and rap,
money becomes a means of shaping action distinct from both society
and the sovereign individual” (3). William Gaddis’s 1975 novel JR offers
Clune a rich opportunity to demonstrate how a literary text might rep-
resent the market as an organizing force...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 421–427.
Published: 01 June 2015
... larger questions about sovereign authority and democracy.
The Afterlife of “Little Women.” By Beverly Lyon Clark. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
Univ. Press. 2014. x, 271 pp. Cloth, $44.95; e-book, $44.95.
This study examines diaries, letters, and autobiographies to trace the recep-
tion history...
Journal Article
American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 747–773.
Published: 01 December 2011
... possession. What is the origin of this curious
expression? A popular anecdote purported to tell the real story behind
the metaphor. The author of the New York Times piece opens with a
detailed version of this story:
When a Siamese despot takes a grudge against one of his poorer
subjects...
Journal Article
American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 745–779.
Published: 01 December 2013
... 2009). Through its gameplay, Braid offers an ingenious twist on
the classic 2D side-scrolling “platform” or “run ’n’ jump” game genre
that originated in arcades and was popularized by the Nintendo Enter-
tainment System console in the 1980s. Traditionally, these games rely
on hand-eye...
Journal Article
American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 547–577.
Published: 01 December 2024
... and political affairs in Indian Territory, this was not the case in Oklahoma Territory. As I have argued elsewhere, because Indian Territory was mostly governed by sovereign tribal nations, we must understand it as Native space and the print produced there—even print produced by non-Native people—as part...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 579–605.
Published: 01 December 2024
... but fighting with the pen in the public sphere to claim Black and Native peoples’ place as unquestioned citizens. A popular genre among Black contributors to the Southern Workman was what is known as the race history. In race histories, writers chronicle the forgotten and/or misrepresented...
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