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American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Valerie Sirenko Abstract This article argues that Black writers throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries produced a critical knowledge of how legal documentation functions to produce racialized structures of power and Black vulnerability at law. In literature that reckons with slavery’s...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 745–779.
Published: 01 December 2013
... independently produced hit American videogame Braid (2008). For all of the ways that Braid stands apart from contemporary videogames, it does so less to dismiss them than to contemplate, historicize, and produce a reading of the videogame form. Moreover, this game uses media-specific techniques to make...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 153–174.
Published: 01 March 2011
... that traumatic events produce formal changes in narrative strategies that reflect transformations in historical and political thinking, but many 9/11 novels, like Don DeLillo's Falling Man , do not demonstrate significant formal departures from pre-9/11 works. Others, like Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 377–405.
Published: 01 June 2018
... Sedgwick’s model of reparative reading, I demonstrate how Fun Home ’s form produces a version of reparation that emerges from a shared artistry and embraces ambivalent affective responses to the past. Ultimately, Bechdel produces a queer feminist reparative reading that understands futurity’s potential...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 111–140.
Published: 01 March 2008
... of Paredes's narrative satisfies the conventions of both forms even as it critiques these narratives and the subjectivities that they produce. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Leif The Anti-corrido of George Washington Gómez:
Sorensen A Narrative of Emergent Subject Formation...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 141–166.
Published: 01 March 2008
... they must recognize the historical circumstances that have produced inequality through identity and desire, and their own complicity in this production. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Megan Hybridity, Identity, and Representation in
Obourn La Mollie and the King of Tears...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 419–445.
Published: 01 September 2013
... privileged access to knowledge, just as Clithero does in Edgar Huntly . By treating somnambulists as knowing figures, Brown’s novel, and animal magnetism itself, transvalued an eighteenth-century sensory pathology: insensibility. In a period when the ability to produce public knowledge and even to claim...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 781–809.
Published: 01 December 2013
... methodologies adopted from computer science to help us analyze the vast, networked nature of knowledge and information in postindustrial society produce a major change in our understanding of literature and culture, and indeed the humanities? Some have suggested that we have already embarked on a post...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 31–59.
Published: 01 March 2014
... works and the narrative forms of recursion and repetition that result produce an aesthetic engagement with the past that emphasizes simultaneity and overlap. Highlighting the presence of multiple temporalities as they are represented in landscapes and topographies within popular works frequently read...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 117–145.
Published: 01 March 2014
... and cultural nationalist gender and sexual binds. By juxtaposing the spatiotemporalities and affects of these fantasies alongside those of Ronald Reagan’s speeches and CIA literature produced in the wake of the Grenada invasion, the essay shows how these Hurstonian fantasies of the Caribbean worked to both...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 713–736.
Published: 01 December 2014
...-century collaboration between the geologist and Spiritualist lecturer and writer William Denton and his wife, the psychometric medium Elizabeth Foote Denton, which produced a three-volume study titled The Soul of Things : Psychometric Researches and Discovery , published between 1863 and 1874...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 123–149.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Eve Dunbar Abstract Deeply rooted racial logics of Western culture have long used animal metaphors and affiliations as a method for negatively coding the species permeability between black people and nonhuman animals. Responsively, many black cultural producers have sought to acquire access...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 255–282.
Published: 01 June 2021
...Gerry Canavan Abstract This article takes up science-fictional visions of the future against the “deep time” of the Anthropocene in order to explore the possibilities for utopia that remain in an era that only seems capable of producing necrofuturological dread. The piece surveys a wide range...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 473–496.
Published: 01 September 2021
... communities by diminishing the ecological infrastructures of their lands. This article argues that literary fiction can produce new understandings of situated environmental challenges and can pose particular obligations for environmental justice. Salvage the Bones produces a sustained figuration...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 181–209.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of gamification. Through an analysis of Lucas Pope’s independently produced American video game Papers, Please (2013), this article interrogates gamification as a rhetorical process that communicates how play dynamics sustain the procedural logics of border security and citizenship. Such logics, the game suggests...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 309–341.
Published: 01 June 2020
... they never became environmentalists, they experimented with environmental writing and politics. By recovering these experiments, this article shows how media produce—rather than simply portray—lands and waters. Ultimately it tells the story of the borderlands as a series of struggles over what environments...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 807–834.
Published: 01 December 2010
... writing, produced not simply on the land but through the medium of the land itself , while recording an activist witnessing of historical and ongoing attempts at its erasure. © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Chadwick Serpentine Figures, Sinuous Relations:
Allen Thematic Geometry...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 29–57.
Published: 01 March 2011
... that produced populist imperialism. Moby-Dick narrates how hegemonic redeployments of the working-class rhetoric of loss transformed the hands of industry, seeking autonomy through territorial imperialism, into the prostheses of an Ahabian empire. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Christopher...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 331–354.
Published: 01 June 2011
... mode of cultural production, and it is from this deep understanding of empire (in both its colonial and neocolonial forms) that the genre produces rich cosmopolitan alternatives to imperial discourse and practice. One example of science fiction's successful interrogation of cosmopolitan concerns can...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 355–388.
Published: 01 June 2011
... movement and the gay liberation movement to figure “mutation” as an expansive form of cultural difference that wedded fantasy to the ideals of radical politics. By linking the fictional category of mutation to lived categories of difference, the X-Men series produced a mainstream popular fantasy...
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