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Providence Tales and the Birth of American Literature

Elizabeth Barnes
American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 417–418.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-2-417
Published: 01 June 2000
...Elizabeth Barnes By James D. Hartman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 1999. xii, 202 pp. $38.50. 2000 Reviews 6059 American Literature 72:2 / sheet 179 of223 Providence Tales and the Birth of American Literature. By James D. Hartman...
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The Parasitical Trick: Mediating Dispossession in Early America

Ethan A. Plaue
American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 89–113.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10345379
Published: 01 March 2023
... Indigenous people from relationality by, paradoxically, making them central to it. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 settler colonialism media studies Indigenous relationality providence Mary Rowlandson In the first of the three early nineteenth...
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Figure 2. Alison Bechdel took a digital reference photograph for almost every human pose in Fun Home. This digital photograph provided the reference for the fourth frame of p. 141, as seen in fig. 1. Reprinted by permission of Alison Bechdel.

Alison Bechdel took a digital reference photograph for almost every human p...

in “I’m Very Happy to Be in the Reality-Based Community”: Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home , Digital Photography, and George W. Bush > American Literature
Published: 01 March 2017
Figure 2. Alison Bechdel took a digital reference photograph for almost every human pose in Fun Home . This digital photograph provided the reference for the fourth frame of p. 141, as seen in fig. 1 . Reprinted by permission of Alison Bechdel. More
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Langston Hughes’s Constructivist Poetics

Kristin Grogan
American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 585–612.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-6994817
Published: 01 September 2018
...Kristin Grogan Abstract This essay explores the relationship between Langston Hughes’s 1930s poetry and the Soviet avant-garde theater. It argues that the constructivist theater provides an aesthetic framework through which to read Hughes’s radical poetry. Often read as an artistic failure...
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The Plantation Countermelodies of Dunbar and Du Bois: Writing Agropolitical Subjecthood in the Nadir

Benjamin Child
American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 557–586.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7722128
Published: 01 September 2019
... of the Silver Fleece (1911), to explore counternarratives of black subjecthood. Agriculture’s focus on productive collaborations with the nonhuman, on cycles of decay and rebirth, and on the potential for self-determination provides a generative vocabulary for conceptualizing nadir-era experiences of the human...
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Frances Whipple, Elleanor Eldridge, and the Politics of Interracial Collaboration

Joycelyn Moody
American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 689–717.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1437189
Published: 01 December 2011
...Joycelyn Moody This essay examines the second of two virtually unknown texts coauthored by Frances Whipple (Green McDougal) and Elleanor Eldridge, both of Providence, Rhode Island: Memoirs of Elleanor Eldridge (1838) and Elleanor's Second Book (1839). Whereas the Memoirs exclusively chronicles...
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The Technê Whim: Lin Yutang and the Invention of the Chinese Typewriter

R. John Williams
American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 389–419.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-006
Published: 01 June 2010
... ” not only provides a more accurate picture of Lin's transnational literary development; it also opens a space for a reading of Lin's novel Chinatown Family that dramatically alters the typical Asian American understanding of his work and offers an important contribution to the larger critical discourse...
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Serpentine Figures, Sinuous Relations: Thematic Geometry in Allison Hedge Coke's Blood Run

Chadwick Allen
American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 807–834.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-046
Published: 01 December 2010
... geometry that underlies their free-verse forms. This subtle mathematical patterning, based on the natural numbers four, three, and seven and on the sequence of the first twenty-four primes, provides the foundation for a contemporary earthworks poetics. Hedge Coke explicates an older form of Indigenous...
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Stowe, Byron, and the Art of Scandal

Susan M. Ryan
American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 59–91.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-063
Published: 01 March 2011
...Susan M. Ryan The media firestorm that followed Harriet Beecher Stowe's exposé of Lord Byron's supposed incest (which she first detailed in an 1869 Atlantic Monthly article and later in the book Lady Byron Vindicated [1870]) provides an apt cultural site for analyzing the intersections among...
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State Killing, the Stage of Innocence, and The Exonerated

Katy Ryan
American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 121–151.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-065
Published: 01 March 2011
..., and reception reveal the challenges of creating art that is aimed at social reform and confirm the difficulty in assessing the political function or, in Fredric Jameson's sense, the political unconscious of American literature. As a celebrated example of political theater, The Exonerated also provides a forum...
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Frank Reade, Jr., in Cuba : Dime-Novel Technology, U.S. Imperialism, and the “American Jules Verne”

Nathaniel Williams
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 279–303.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266063
Published: 01 June 2011
...Nathaniel Williams Williams's essay examines the complex portrayal of imperialist themes in the long-running series of nineteenth-century dime novels featuring boy inventor Frank Reade Jr. Authored primarily by Cuban-American writer Luis Senarens under the pseudonym “Noname,” these works provide...
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Literary Information Warfare: Eileen Chang, the US State Department, and Cold War Media Aesthetics

Richard Jean So
American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 719–744.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2367328
Published: 01 December 2013
... confrontation with Communist China in the 1950s provided the basis and impetus for developing a new model of information theory through the weaponizing of literature. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 I would like to thank the following individuals and groups for helping me write and improve...
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Marianne Moore’s Depression Collectives

Odile Harter
American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 333–361.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2079179
Published: 01 June 2013
... for aesthetic excellence but opts to place the poem’s lyric speaker not aloft with the solitary and expert artist but below with a set of well-meaning but inept creatures. This shift in Moore’s artistic priorities provides a lens for understanding the topicality and fond humor of her later poetry...
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Documenting Tradition: Territoriality and Textuality in Black Hawk's Narrative

Mark Rifkin
American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 677–705.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-035
Published: 01 December 2008
... functions as a self-consciously traditionalist critique of the mappings and subjectivities of U.S. Indian policy. The text uses the medium of print to provide a countervailing narrative to the texts of the treaty-system, sketching a set of regional native processes, practices, and principles which have...
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The Sticky Web of Medical Professionalism: Robert Herrick’s The Web of Life and the Political Economy of Health Care at the Turn of the Century

Phillip Barrish
American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 583–610.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2717416
Published: 01 September 2014
... it today were first taking shape. At this fluid historical moment, Herrick stages a competition between two contrasting possibilities for what that system would, or should, look like in the new century. One possibility consists of a democratic profusion of health-care providers and options, all of which...
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The Literary Afterlife of the Korean War

Joseph Darda
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 79–105.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2865199
Published: 01 March 2015
.... It was Korea, they remind us, that provided the rationale for building a permanent standing military and a global network of more than seven hundred military installations around the world. Those mining this history include some of the most acclaimed American novelists writing today: Ha Jin in War Trash ( 2004...
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The Age of Anxiety: Patricia Highsmith, Existential Psychology, and the “Decline” Of American Naturalism

Benjamin Mangrum
American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 769–798.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3329590
Published: 01 December 2015
... become the dominant template for understanding society and the self. Patricia Highsmith's novels provide a nodal point for this political and intellectual history as she recasts representations of violence, murder, alienation, class envy, and social mobility in ways that both represent and helped define...
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The Novelist as Organic Intellectual: William Hill Brown’s The Power of Sympathy , Reconsidered

David Lawrimore
American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 695–721.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3711090
Published: 01 December 2016
... to as the natural aristocracy—and saw the novel genre as a means to disperse his network’s ideology to a growing novel-reading audience. I conclude by reevaluating The Power of Sympathy in light of Brown’s commitment to the natural aristocracy, which provides a model for considering the novel genre within...
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Data-Driven Childhoods: Settler Colonialism and Numeracy in the Boys’ Literature of Francis La Flesche and Francis Rolt-Wheeler

Laura Soderberg
American Literature (2024) 96 (1): 57–83.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11092071
Published: 01 March 2024
...-Wheeler’s The Boy with the U.S. Census (1911), reflect and respond to this conjunction of boyhood, settler colonialism, and official surveillance. Read together, these texts provide a window into the ways that data collection mediated between the everyday lives of children and the bureaucratic machinations...
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“In Accord with the Spirit of American Democracy”: Tracing the Network of the US Armed Services Editions

Anna Muenchrath
American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 671–699.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10950753
Published: 01 December 2023
... and through bureaucratic memos. This assembly provides the backdrop for a consideration of the text of Thomas Mann’s “Mario and the Magician,” a short story published in the Armed Services Editions in 1944, whose plot not only mirrors the tension between authority and free will manifested in the geopolitical...
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