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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 (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. References Adams Myron E. 1905 . “ Children in American Street Trades .” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 25 : 23 – 44...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 585–594.
Published: 01 September 2022
... (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 the next...
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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 (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): 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
...” a queer, in effect also queering himself, he queers as well the masses of down-and-out unemployed men whose unloosed gender stirred up a national anxiety about precarious masculinity. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 poverty 1930s Tom Kromer hobos The Great Depression...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 527–549.
Published: 01 September 2022
.... of Chicago Press . Jones Gavin . 2007 . American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in American Literature: 1840–1945 . Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univ. Press . Kennedy Liam . 2006 . Race and Urban Space in Contemporary American Culture . Edinburgh, UK : Edinburgh Univ. Press...
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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
... Levi Barnard ( [email protected] ), Stephanie Foote ( [email protected] ), Jessica Hurley ( [email protected] ), and Jeffrey Insko ( [email protected] ). This special issue examines the role of literature and criticism in addressing poverty and dispossession. In a 2009 Inside Higher...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 922–924.
Published: 01 December 2019
... ). This special issue examines the role of literature and criticism in addressing poverty and dispossession. In a 2009 Inside Higher Ed op-ed, Keith Gandal predicted that the economic crisis would lead to literary studies finally putting “poverty near the top of the agenda and the center of the field.” Ten...
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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): 563–572.
Published: 01 September 2022
... peculiar.” Poor whites do the same thing. They make other whites feel a bit peculiar. If Poverty Politics talks about class without confronting the uglier side of race, Justin Mellette’s Peculiar Whiteness at least acknowledges racism among whites. And like Robertson, he keeps an eye out...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 497–527.
Published: 01 September 2017
... and 1850s, US writers of all kinds, many inspired by emerging critiques of poverty and wage labor, launched activist campaigns to get themselves recognized as positive, productive entities in US publishing economies. The texts in this tradition include everything from pro-copyright materials by such well...
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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
...” commissioned by the federal government to document poverty and who suffered more materially by their exclusion from a wide range of New Deal relief, often to accommodate southern segregationists within the Democrats’ coalition. In the present moment of mounting fears of catastrophe, eroding norms...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 387–390.
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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