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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 23–50.
Published: 01 March 2015
... on that fear, working to undo what Brian Massumi has called its “preemptive logic.” © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 emergent trauma theory perpetrators preemptive logic violence fear References Azoulay Ariella . 2014 . “ Presidential Forum: ‘Vulnerable Times, Perpetrators...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 181–209.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., Please remediates how failure more broadly operates as a technique of control in gamification when mobilized within neoliberal systems of governance and preemptive security logics. In the game, failure is tied to various forms of breakdown—mechanical as well as affective—shoring up clashing scenes...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 869–892.
Published: 01 December 2015
...-Century American Friend-
ship Album Verses,” by Laura Zebuhr, 433–54.
Popular Verse. “The Work of Friendship in Nineteenth-Century American
Friendship Album Verses,” by Laura Zebuhr, 433–54.
Preemptive Logic. “Who’s Afraid of Virginia’s Nat Turner? Mesmerism,
Stowe, and the Terror...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 79–105.
Published: 01 March 2015
...
ways introduced the narrative logic of permanent war, creating the idea
of preemptive, “limited” war making in the interest of defending human-
ity against its own perceived ideological degeneracies. In this way liter-
ature becomes a critical terrain for negotiating and contesting the nar-
rative...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 321–335.
Published: 01 June 2023
... ground here comprises the histories—most strikingly, that of eugenics—that inform the putatively apolitical logic of computational analysis. In this review I engage with the most revealing aspects of Amoore’s and Chun’s analyses before returning to the centrality of slum demolition to Forrester’s Urban...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 255–282.
Published: 01 June 2021
... for a future that now seems preemptively and permanently foreclosed, not simply by political failure or by human frailty but by scientific law. This is intended as a broad overview of the field rather than as a deep critical dive into any particular work; the ambition of this piece is to use science fiction...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 353–379.
Published: 01 June 2012
... of the same logic under another name. Extended readings of Henry David Thoreau (“Walking”), Edgar Allan Poe (“The Island of the Fay,” “The Black Cat,” and “The Colloquy of Monos and Una”) and recent posthumanist discourse illuminate these points. Unlike his transcendentalist contemporaries and many current...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 513–537.
Published: 01 September 2023
... to achieve a unified national culture, bound to racialized and heteronormative logics of white belonging and kinship. This contradiction is then resolved by precluding racially differentiated people from proper citizenship. I suggest this resolution also manifests as an embodied experience of sweetness...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 761–789.
Published: 01 December 2017
... to predict a set of realistic futures for the site of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, creates a present that is fully knowable and a future that is fully predictable. 2 Such an approach, I suggest, perpetuates the state logics of implausibility that have long undergirded settler colonialism...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 433–454.
Published: 01 September 2015
... in a web
of obligation and exchange that annuls the logic of the gift itself. The
initial joy of receiving a letter is too-soon replaced by the guilt of hav-
ing not yet responded to the letter. And yet who of us is bold enough or
cruel enough or young enough to rid all sense of obligation from our...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 419–445.
Published: 01 September 2013
....
Edgar Huntly and the Regulation of the Senses 423
The beginning of Edgar’s descent into insensibility is just what it would
be for any seduction victim: he believes in a romance.
The logic of this episode both repeats and frustrates a certain
expected trajectory of the seduction plot...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 439–472.
Published: 01 September 2022
... (as when he preemptively volunteers to empty out his pockets on the street car), just as he readily accedes to the visual logic of “improvement” his reformer-mentors propagate. The subversive performances of street boys (e.g., those featured in the comic archive of Leech et al.) are regularly invoked...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 111–140.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of the captives, the ideology of the captors, and the space between. Attending to the politics of Himes’s original manuscript can also illuminate how the expurgated Cast the First Stone retreated from Yesterday ’s critical stance, silencing its protests against the prison regime’s pathologizing logic...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 439–467.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of early
American conspiracy thought, focused as it is on the conspiratorial
logic of revolutionary rhetoric or postrevolutionary alarms about
Jesuits, Freemasons, and Illuminati.3 This tradition has focused
almost exclusively on what Bernard Bailyn concisely calls “ministerial...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 429–461.
Published: 01 September 2014
... source of
interest was once as a history of Indians is now read in some quarters
as having little to say about or to Amerindian people in particular.
The perhaps perverse stance of this essay is that, beyond these
vicissitudes of interpretation, The Book of Mormon’s formal logic and
not just...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 93–119.
Published: 01 March 2013
... of the unsanitary African American citizen. But at
the same time, he recasts its logic of cultural deficiency within the pub-
lic identity of the unsanitized mother to perform similar affective and
discursive work within debates over racial uplift. At the beginning of
his essay, thus, Roman refutes...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (2): 301–329.
Published: 01 June 2022
..., “bein’ the corsets warn’t no good, an’ me bout as small as a bag o’ taters” that would have logically seemed impossible (368). In her story of exaggerated, hard-to-follow falsifications about her mutable Blackness, Ophelia Davis refuses to fit into and exist within proper, intelligible speech...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 597–626.
Published: 01 September 2016
... Mockery of Beloved Character,” July 15, 2015). Social media pronouncements by Mockingbird fans were more personal, if not more dramatic, ranging from preemptive self-protection (“I won’t be reading this book. I need to remember Atticus my own way”) to profound disillusionment: “My childhood is ruined...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 323–356.
Published: 01 June 2019
... locate these animal stories as “multicultural” children’s literature, if at a step removed, and highlight their interventionist politics, their admirable prophylactic address to the developing biases of children. And yet I unveil the unintended consequences of their race-as-species logic. Enlisting...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 185–188.
Published: 01 March 2011
... departs from Slavoj Žižek’s claim that noir is less a genre than a “logic,”
one which introduces “the same anamorphic distortion in every genre it is
applied to” (3). The distortion takes the form of preemptively darkening the
world being viewed, and the word “distortion” points to the inherent...
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