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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 384–387.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Christopher Breu The Modernist Corpse: Posthumanism and the Posthumous . By Erin E. Edwards . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2018 . xii, 227 pp. Cloth, $ 108.00 ; paper, $ 27.00 . Antebellum Posthuman: Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 141–166.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Megan Obourn Through a reading of Arturo Islas's posthumously published La Mollie and the King of Tears , this essay offers a critique of liberal, multicultural uses of postcolonial hybridity in the context of U.S. literature and literary criticism. The essay reviews current uses of hybridity...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 87–115.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Sonnet Retman In this essay, Retman explores Sterling Brown’s radical use of signifying ethnography in his posthumous collection A Negro Looks at the South (2007), a work of mostly unpublished essays written in the early 1940s when Brown journeyed as a participant observer to take stock of African...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 639–669.
Published: 01 December 2023
... that extends work by Brent Hayes Edwards, Robert F. Reid-Pharr, and Nadia Nurhussein. To manifest this argument, this article examines Paul Robeson’s speeches at rallies in London that he later reprinted in his autobiography Here I Stand (1958) and Claude McKay’s posthumously published novel Amiable with Big...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 441.
Published: 01 June 2008
... 2008 American Literature 441
Erratum for “Brief Mention,” American Literature 79 (September 2007): 635.
In our description of The Bones of the Others: The Hemingway Text from the
Lost Manuscripts to the Posthumous Novels, by Hilary K...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 633–640.
Published: 01 September 2007
... the links between his
personal and writerly lives. In addition to drawing from these archival docu-
ments, Justice uses Hemingway’s posthumously published novels, including
Death in the Afternoon and The Garden of Eden, to reassess his earlier fiction.
She argues that “the posthumous novels...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 549–577.
Published: 01 September 2004
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through the object of the automortographic act. Like the aesthetic,
which is ‘‘caught between subjectivity and objectivity automortog-
raphy enables the subject to fantasize about a posthumous objectifica-
tion and the survivors to return, through melancholic sentiment and
repetition, to that moment...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 874–876.
Published: 01 December 2016
... human than to transform the category from within. For posthumous rehabilitation to full humanity does not help us recover the modes of being of those rendered bare life by the necropolitics of colonial plantation slavery. Rather, as Weheliye asks, “How might we go about thinking and living enfleshment...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 666–668.
Published: 01 September 2017
... in what we might call a black posthumanism has sought less to restore humanity to those rendered not quite human than to transform the category from within. For posthumous rehabilitation to full humanity does not help us recover the modes of being of those rendered bare life by the necropolitics...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 145–147.
Published: 01 March 2021
... that are productive for further studies. Although Schleitwiler emphasizes Filipino, Filipino American, and African American cultural exchanges, he also treats Toshio Mori’s novella, The Brothers Murata (posthumously published in 2000), written during his internment at Topaz concentration camp, and Hisaye...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 843–866.
Published: 01 December 2000
... of Bulosan’s works were published posthumously; except for one
poem and one story, his literary works were not published in the Philip-
pines until 1978, twenty-two years after his death (Leigh Bristol-Kagan...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 209–212.
Published: 01 March 2017
... might call a black posthumanism has sought less to restore humanity to those rendered not quite human than to transform the category from within. For posthumous rehabilitation to full humanity does not help us recover the modes of being of those rendered bare life by the necropolitics of colonial...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 648–650.
Published: 01 September 2016
... marginalized lived experience. In a series of adept readings, Robbins traces engagements with crime fiction in Stein’s Blood on the Dining Room Floor (written in 1933 and published posthumously) and Laura Mullen’s Murmur (2007), and with noir fiction and film in Notley’s postlyric/epic/narrative long poem...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 880–882.
Published: 01 December 2019
... was both a scientific and a philosophical undertaking, she primarily quotes from Thoreau’s 1853 journal entries, the year before Walden was published. Much of what goes on in Thoreau’s later journal finds its way into his posthumous books such as The Maine Woods . I have no such quibbles...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 187–189.
Published: 01 March 2003
... of
her life with a posthumous biography culled from a painstakingly assembled
and necessarily fragmentary archive. However, The Showman and the Slave
is centrally concerned with the media spectacle surrounding Heth, whose...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 247–274.
Published: 01 June 2003
... transformation to which he himself contrib-
uted pre-posthumously in his Farewell Address. The Address, cowrit-
ten with Alexander Hamilton and delivered in 1796, is one of the earli-
est and most complex statements...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 660–664.
Published: 01 September 2016
... to transform the category from within. For posthumous rehabilitation to full humanity does not help us recover the modes of being of those rendered bare life by the necropolitics of colonial plantation slavery. Rather, as Weheliye asks, “How might we go about thinking and living enfleshment otherwise so...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 283–313.
Published: 01 June 2018
... all-too-facile potential for damage—both physical and mental. 9 Acker did a similar spoken word–music collaboration for her novel My Mother: Demonology ( 1993 ). Posthumously released, it includes music by queercore band Tribe 8; the appropriately named Redoing Childhood ( 1999...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 439–445.
Published: 01 June 2016
... that Black Lives Matter? Recent work in what we might call a black posthumanism has sought less to restore humanity to those rendered not quite human than to transform the category from within. For posthumous rehabilitation to full humanity does not help us recover the modes of being of those rendered...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 658–665.
Published: 01 September 2017
... sociohistorical events taking place around her—such as the wars in Vietnam and Yugoslavia or the women’s movement—and traces her posthumous legacy as a public intellectual. Playing with Expectations: Postmodern Narrative Choices and the African American Novel . By Preston Park Cooper. New York: Peter Lang...
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