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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 51–77.
Published: 01 March 2015
... with the Cold War rhetorical frame that shift the meaning of the war away from US claims about it. The category of “Korean War literature” changes how we understand “Cold War literature” and therefore post-1945 American literature and culture. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Korean War literature...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 799–823.
Published: 01 December 2015
... critics and
scholars of post-1945 literature have begun to seek alternate modes of
periodizing late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century literature. The
broader critical and literary historical context of this claim is laid out by
Gladstone and Worden (2012). While...
Journal Article
American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 389–398.
Published: 01 June 2013
.... By Mark Silverberg. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2010.
xii, 281 pp. $124.95.
These five books are welcome additions to the exciting recent work
on the period variously identified as post-1945 or contemporary, a field
that has come of age in the last decade. We might witness this matura-
tion...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 396–398.
Published: 01 June 2015
... in the Post–Civil Rights Imag-
ination. By Salamishah Tillet. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press. 2012. xvi, 224 pp.
$23.95; e-book, $23.99.
Unbecoming Americans: Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizen-
ship, 1945–1960. By Joseph Keith. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press.
2013. xi, 239 pp...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 869–892.
Published: 01 December 2015
... Literature by Emily J. Lordi, 841–43.
Weinbaum, Alys. Review: Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in
the Post–Civil Rights Imagination by Salamisha Tillet; Unbecoming Ameri-
cans: Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945–1960
by Joseph Keith, 396–98.
Williams...
Journal Article
American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 627–637.
Published: 01 September 2016
... of collective life” (7). By excavating a counterhistory of medium itself, Tierney seeks to both challenge the consensus narrative of post-1945 America and redefine medium not as black-boxed technology but as “the shifting but shared space of community formation” (57). What Lies Between powerfully uncovers...
Journal Article
American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 783–810.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Joseph Darda Abstract This essay considers how the creative writing workshop transformed the white Vietnam vet into a minority writer. The MFA system, which organized the group-based politics of post–civil rights American literature, originated as a space geared toward white combat veterans. Some...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 616–618.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Susana M. Morris Black Internationalist Feminism: Woman Writers of the Black Left, 1945–1995 . By Higashida Cheryl . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois Press . 2011 . xi , 250 pp. Cloth, $50.00 ; paper, $25.00 ; e-book available. From Sugar to Revolution: Women's Visions of Haiti...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 497–525.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and legacy of 1930s proletarian modernisms. ccstclai@iu.edu Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 “Facing Eviction, Wife Takes Poison” ( Washington Post ; March 29, 1934) “Faced Eviction, Ends Life” ( New York Times ; April 2, 1937) “Aged Couple, Facing Eviction, Pick Death” ( New...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 321–355.
Published: 01 June 2000
... was an aesthetic call-to-arms for
the post-Harlem Renaissance generation of black writers. Wright re-
buked the black writers of the 1920s for overzealously parading black
culture to whites and for failing to master...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 611–613.
Published: 01 September 2015
... in American Literature, 1945–1975 . By LeMahieu Michael . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2013 . viii , 244 pp. Cloth, $49.95 ; e-book available. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Book Reviews 611
stage” (9). Manganelli does...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 367–389.
Published: 01 June 2004
... for political debates and fairy tales nor
his connections to left organizations ended with childhood. In 1943 he
enrolled at Columbia University with the support of a partial scholar-
ship from the New Jersey CIO and in 1950 he took an early post-
graduate job with the Labor Herald, the newspaper of the New...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 79–105.
Published: 01 March 2015
... and biopower and a war “we’re
still fighting” in Korea as well as within the United States itself.
96 American Literature
Framed by the Korean War, Cee’s medicalized vulnerability under-
scores the scientific grounds on which state authority is founded in the
post–World War II period. While her...
Journal Article
American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 897–914.
Published: 01 December 2012
....
Fabre, Cara. Review: Hames-García, identity complex: Making the Case for
Multiplicity, 894–96.
Review: Obourn, Reconstituting Americans: Liberal Multiculturalism
and Identity Difference in Post-1960s Literature, 894–96.
Ferraro, Tom. Review: Marcus and Sollors, eds., A New Literary History...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 187–189.
Published: 01 March 2015
... Amer-
ican literature published between 1920 and 1960, a neglected period of liter-
ary production. Scholars usually consider works published during this period
to be distinct from post-1960s literature, which emphasizes cultural revival
and political restoration. Cox, however, refutes...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 394–396.
Published: 01 June 2015
... for decades after the author’s
death. Both are imaginative critical contributions, and well worth reading.
Frank Donoghue, The Ohio State University
DOI 10.1215/00029831-2886211
Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–Civil Rights Imag-
ination. By Salamishah Tillet. Durham...
Journal Article
American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 426–427.
Published: 01 June 2001
...-
count of masculinity in magazines like the Saturday Evening Post and Es-
quire looks pretty much like the story that figures from David Riesman to
E. Anthony Rotundo have led us to expect: a Victorian productivist ethos...
Journal Article
American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 427–428.
Published: 01 June 2001
... like the Saturday Evening Post and Es-
quire looks pretty much like the story that figures from David Riesman to
E. Anthony Rotundo have led us to expect: a Victorian productivist ethos
gradually but definitively...
Journal Article
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 113–141.
Published: 01 March 2007
...Marsha Bryant Duke University Press 2007 Marsha Gwendolyn Brooks, Ebony,
Bryant and Postwar Race Relations
A lthough Gwendolyn Brooks and Ebony emerged
from the same Chicago neighborhood and published their first vol-
umes in 1945...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 205–206.
Published: 01 March 2015
... this period
to be distinct from post-1960s literature, which emphasizes cultural revival
and political restoration. Cox, however, refutes this distinction by illuminating
the political dimensions of these earlier works. In particular, he connects
them to contemporary literary nationalism and its...
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