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Cultural Melancholy: Readings of Race, Impossible Mourning, and African American Ritual In the Wake: On Blackness and Being Long Past Slavery: Representing Race in the Federal Writers’ Project
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 870–872.
Published: 01 December 2018
... Sharpe . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2016 . xi, 175 pp. Cloth, $84.95 ; paper, $22.95 ; e-book available. Long Past Slavery: Representing Race in the Federal Writers’ Project . By Catherine A. Stewart . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . 2016 . xv, 353 pp. Paper...
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Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture American Guides: The Federal Writers’ Project and the Casting of American Culture
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 397–400.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Joel Pfister Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture . By Evan Kindley . Cambridge, MA : Harvard Univ. Press . 2017 . 164 pp. Cloth, $ 36.00 . American Guides: The Federal Writers’ Project and the Casting of American Culture . By Wendy Griswold . Chicago : Univ...
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Unruly Empiricisms and Linguistic Sovereignty in Thomas Jefferson's Indian Vocabulary Project
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 645–680.
Published: 01 December 2015
... that the vocabulary lists reveal forms of linguistic sovereignty whereby the indigenous speakers interviewed for the project refused to have their languages condemned to the atavistic detritus of American antiquity. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 American Philosophical Society early republic language...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 409–411.
Published: 01 June 2005
..., and the Nation: Staging American Identities.ByS.E.Wilmer.New
York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2002. vii, 281 pp. $60.00.
The Federal Theatre Project: A Case Study. By Barry B. Witham. New York: Cam-
bridge Univ. Press. 2003. xiii, 190 pp. $60.00.
In the opening pages of Theatre, Society, and the Nation, S. E...
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Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States; Poets in the Public Sphere: The Emancipatory Project of American Women's Poetry,1800-1900
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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 891–894.
Published: 01 December 2004
... Mortensen. Pittsburgh, Penn.: Univ. of Pittsburgh Press. 2002. xi,
279 pp. $34.95.
Poets in the Public Sphere: The Emancipatory Project of American Women’s Poetry,
1800–1900. By Paula Bernat Bennett. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2003.
xvi, 264 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.50.
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Sono-Montage: Langston Hughes and Tony Schwartz Listen to Postwar New York
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 275–302.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Lisa Hollenbach In the late 1940s and early 1950s, large-scale population shifts, urban-development projects, and new media transformed New York City in ways that were heard as much as seen. In this context, Langston Hughes and sound documentarian Tony Schwartz each experimented with techniques...
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Marking Time in Native America: Haiku, Elegy, Survival
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American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 333–359.
Published: 01 June 2009
...Karen Jackson Ford Ford's essay investigates the post–World War II haiku boom in the United States with particular attention to how haiku has served different projects of national identity. These diverse projects share an inclination to respond in haiku to the United States' troubled history...
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Public Humanities in the Reconstructed University
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 781–790.
Published: 01 December 2020
... public humanities seminar at Emory University who partnered with a large regional theater on a project involving dramaturgy and audience engagement for a spring 2020 production of Lynn Nottage’s play Sweat (first performed in 2015). The graduate seminar and the project—both before and in the wake...
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Cesar Chavez’s Video Collection
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 811.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Curtis Marez Marez’s author statement introduces a Scalar project titled “Cesar Chavez’s Video Collection,” which finds in Chavez’s store of graphics, photos, films, and videos from the 1940s to the 1990s evidence of farm workers’ appropriation of visual technologies to project social alternatives...
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Holocaust Survivors on Schindler’s List
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 813–814.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Jeffrey Shandler Shandler’s author statement introduces a Scalar project titled “Holocaust Survivors on Schindler’s List ; or, Reading a Digital Archive against the Grain.” Examining references to the 1993 film Schindler’s List in videotaped interviews with Holocaust survivors at the USC Shoah...
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Making the Perfect Record
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 817–818.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Jentery Sayers Sayers’s author statement introduces a Scalar project titled “Making the Perfect Record.” This project unpacks the often ignored, pre-1940s history of magnetic recording, with particular attention to how—through an interweaving of print fiction, sound transduction, storage media...
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The Epistemology of the Ursuline Convent in New Orleans
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American Literature 11792395.
Published: 07 March 2025
...Liz Polcha Abstract The Ursuline convent in New Orleans is the oldest standing European-designed structure in the Mississippi Valley, a site of the plantationocene in the ongoing colonial project, within a global South landscape of wetlands and barrier islands that are rapidly becoming...
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Beyond Protest: Voice and Exit in Contemporary American Poetry
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 841–870.
Published: 01 December 2019
...) as exemplars of an impetus in contemporary American poetry to enable exit from the state. However, this project inevitably fails, and the poetics of exit resorts to a renewed voice. Rather than a complaint addressed to authority, these poets’ voiced demand for exit now forms the potential basis of new...
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Makandal and Pandemic Knowledge: Literature, Fetish, and Health in the Plantationocene
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 723–735.
Published: 01 December 2020
... the world are fugitive from, and revolutionary with respect to, racial capitalism and the plantation project and are traceable within a line of literary Makandal texts. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Plantation project agronomy anti-colonial epistemology human-environmental...
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Richard Wright and the Black Metropolis: From the Great Migration to the Urban Planning Novel
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 653–680.
Published: 01 December 2020
... in response to the Great Migration and used Wright’s informal study of sociology with the Chicago school to animate its project. Native Son , for all of its flaws, first considered how narrative can help explain and unspool the “neutral and egalitarian” guise behind the truly discriminatory urban planning...
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Picturing Poverty in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 439–472.
Published: 01 September 2022
.... The essay demonstrates that the period’s photographic apprehension of the poor haunts literary depictions. Tracing rich, productive exchanges between nineteenth-century visual and literary texts, it argues that the photographic project of bearing witness to urban poverty helped authorize the emergence...
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Talking to Bessie: Richard Wright's Domestic Servants
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 151–176.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Julieann Veronica Ulin Over the course of the debate concerning Wright's depiction of black women, critics have ignored the manuscript and extensive body of research to which Wright immediately turned after Native Son , a project Wright explicitly identified as female-centered and for which his...
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Gaming Borders: The Rhetorics of Gamification and National Belonging in Papers, Please
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 181–209.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Gary Kafer Abstract Game media have long participated in projects of nation building by remediating historical, political, and social relations in ways that reinforce affective processes of national belonging. The genre of border games in particular is well-known for staging the discursive...
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Serpentine Figures, Sinuous Relations: Thematic Geometry in Allison Hedge Coke's Blood Run
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American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 807–834.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Chadwick Allen Allison Hedge Coke's remarkable sequence of two narrative and sixty-four persona poems, Blood Run , gives voice to the traditions of Indigenous North American mound-building cultures and, most strikingly, to Indigenous earthworks themselves. Central to this project is the poet's...
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Embodied Politics: Antebellum Vegetarianism and the Dietary Economy of Walden
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 33–60.
Published: 01 March 2013
... reform project in Walden hinges on diet and Thoreau's attitude toward literal “groceries.” Thoreau's interest in dietary practices has generally been read as apolitical or even antipolitical, primarily because his dietary and consumptive practices have never been adequately situated amid contemporary...
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