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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 827–830.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Dean Rader How Did Poetry Survive? The Making of Modern American Verse . By Newcomb John Timberman . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois Press . 2012 . xi, 338 pp . $75.00 . Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys: Poverty, Labor, and the Making of Modern American Poetry . By Marsh John...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 403–404.
Published: 01 June 2009
...Michael Robertson © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840–1945 . By Gavin Jones. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2008. xvi, 228 pp. $35.00. Visions and Divisions: American Immigration Literature, 1870–1930...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 473–496.
Published: 01 September 2022
... business relied too heavily on the exploitation of poverty conditions produced by and disseminated through the medium of popular print. But this optimism is quickly overlaid with irony when it is revealed that Rufus can “judge which of the great morning dailies would be likely to suit the taste...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 585–594.
Published: 01 September 2022
... This Crisis (and the Next) . By Dean Spade . Brooklyn, NY : Verso . 2020 . 152 pp. Paper, $14.95 ; e-book, $9.99 . Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 When I think of poverty, I think of constant physical and material oppression. You know you aren’t poor one day and well-to-do...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 383–397.
Published: 01 September 2022
... not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Public rhetoric tends to present poverty as a static condition, often a condition of abject and total deprivation, rather than recognize it as an ongoing act of dispossession. Yet the word poverty itself has the potential to open up quite different...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 439–472.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Lori Merish Abstract “Picturing Poverty” addresses the striking absence of discussion of poverty in US cultural criticism by turning to the archive to examine historically significant and influential, but previously neglected, early photographs of the poor alongside more familiar literary texts...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 399–438.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Jean Franzino Abstract This article considers texts written or sold by disabled Civil War veterans for their economic support as an understudied precursor to twentieth-century disability memoir and an instructive subgenre of the literature of poverty. These so-called mendicant texts challenged...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2008
... outlook, Dred advances a positive position, represented by Millie, an older black woman who devotes the end of her life to rescuing orphaned children from poverty. Millie's commitment to and defense of principles associated with republicanism establishes her moral and political excellence, particularly...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 91–119.
Published: 01 March 2019
... : Partridge . Jones Gavin . 2008 . American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840–1945 . Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univ. Press . Kahan Benjamin . 2013 . “ The Walk-in Closet: Situational Homosexuality and Homosexual Panic in Hellman’s The Children’s Hour...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 619–621.
Published: 01 September 2020
... Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 In the spirit of that pivot, this special issue seeks to revise and reimagine the category of poverty itself. It follows recent work that attends to the productive dilemmas of representation that this category highlights. Gavin Jones’s...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 687–689.
Published: 01 September 2019
... Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 In the United States, the contradictions of poverty are especially acute: while the nation has the world’s highest GDP, a 2018 United Nations report found that more than 40 million Americans live in poverty, almost half of those in “extreme...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 922–924.
Published: 01 December 2019
... In the spirit of that pivot, this special issue seeks to revise and reimagine the category of poverty itself. It follows recent work that attends to the productive dilemmas of representation that this category highlights. Gavin Jones’s American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in U.S...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 194–198.
Published: 01 March 2020
... Submissions of 11,000 words or fewer (including endnotes and references) should be submitted electronically at www.editorialmanager.com/al/default.asp by October 1, 2020 . When choosing a submission type, select “Submission-Special Issue-Poverty.” For assistance with the submission process...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 423–427.
Published: 01 June 2020
... Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 In the spirit of that pivot, this special issue seeks to revise and reimagine the category of poverty itself. It follows recent work that attends to the productive dilemmas of representation that this category highlights. Gavin Jones’s...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 527–549.
Published: 01 September 2022
... Jones ( 2007 : 3) has argued that studies of poverty should proceed by acknowledging the state of “socioeconomic suffering,” though this may create ethical dilemmas for literary critics whose methodologies have traditionally emphasized form and culture over the materiality of need. While Jones concedes...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 563–572.
Published: 01 September 2022
...John Marsh jem55@psu.edu Poverty Politics: Poor Whites in Contemporary Southern Writing . By Sarah Robertson . Oxford : Univ. of Mississippi Press . 2019 . xxii, 188 pp. Cloth, $99.00 ; paper, $30.00 ; e-book available. Peculiar Whiteness: Racial Anxiety and Poor Whites...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 497–527.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of luxurious living.” No longer depicted as a stolid citizen and diligent worker, the genius is now seen as incapable of working within normative economic or labor systems; he is completely divorced from that “practical judgment, which controls every-day affairs.” Misled into poverty not by unfair copyright...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 803–829.
Published: 01 December 2011
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they unsettle literary pieties about the “immigrant story,” challenging
scholars to complicate that analytical paradigm.
Additionally, Arabian Jazz offers a detailed portrait of white poverty,
representing the white poor as trapped in a temporality of the con-
tinuous present. If these characters...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 573–584.
Published: 01 September 2022
.... Have you seen their faces? —Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric ( 2014 ) In the popular imagination, poverty is a site of negation, of invisibility, of absence. In a neoliberal order whose imagination orbits around the concepts of growth, accumulation, and expansion, at all scalar...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 412–413.
Published: 01 June 2009
... to Belonging: The Worcester Slave Narra-
tives, edited by B. Eugene McCarthy and Thomas L. Doughton, is a valuable
collection of primary sources. “I was born a slave. My recollections of early life
are associated with poverty, suffering, and shame,” Thomas H. Jones observes
at the beginning of his 1862...
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