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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 887–888.
Published: 01 December 2000
.... John Whalen-Bridge, National University of Singapore Quiet As It’s Kept: Shame, Trauma, and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison.ByJ. Brooks Bouson. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2000. x, 277 pp. $21.95...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 791–820.
Published: 01 December 2017
....’” Quashie’s concept of quiet resonates with Baraka’s idea of silence through their overlapping efforts at appreciating a black soundlessness that surpasses resistance. But this similarity has its limits. The semantic difference between quiet (Quashie) and silence (Baraka) carries substantial implications...
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Published: 01 September 2023
older men stand at the forefront of the image and speak to one another. As the caption explains, the man to the left says, “Quiet! . . . My daughter is in communication with Dante! . . . ” Photograph courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art More
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 283–305.
Published: 01 June 2021
... the blessed painlessness of death. The film’s visual imagery makes poems like this one painfully clear. Emily’s world offers no outlets. Dickinson is neither lesbian nor twinkling in Terence Davies’s 2016 biopic A Quiet Passion . Starring Cynthia Nixon as Dickinson, with Jennifer Ehle as Lavinia...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 781–806.
Published: 01 December 2007
... the bizarre family romance of Keats’s “still unravished bride of quietness / [the] foster-child of silence and slow time,” O’Hara’s poem opens: “My quietness has a man in it, he is transparent / and he carries me quietly, like a gondola, through the streets” (252). Keats casts quietness as the groom...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 885–887.
Published: 01 December 2000
... authority and the frenzy of renown in postwar American literature will find both Norman Mailer: Works and Days and Mailer: A Biography quite useful. John Whalen-Bridge, National University of Singapore Quiet...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 123–149.
Published: 01 March 2020
... of sanctity and ritual, of aspiration and desire, of order and beauty in a hierarchically male-centered world, limited by the idioms of the literal” (136). There are two standard critical approaches to the text: one argues that there is a quiet interiority to Maud Martha’s narrative, and the other situates...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 811–835.
Published: 01 December 2001
...—to expand this sense of radical disorientation to include the very landscape on which his characters attempt to ground themselves.14 Unlike Quentin, Vardaman, or even Darl, the convict initially re- sponds to this elemental dis- and reorientation not with anguish or madness but a quiet equanimity...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 475–477.
Published: 01 June 2011
... ongoing presence in our memory is a precious treasure. Victor H. Strandberg Professor of English Duke University Lou Budd had retired before I came to teach at Duke, but I got to know him when I was on leave and had found a quiet spot in the library to work that hap- pened to be near his...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 888–889.
Published: 01 December 2000
... to Morrison scholarship is the identification of questions that have most inter- ested the author’s critics. While Morrison’s texts often seem inexhaustible theoretically, Quiet As It’s Kept remindsusthatscholarsareengagedinabattle...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 389–398.
Published: 01 June 2013
... against living organisms by radiation. Piette’s final chapter concerns representations of Vietnam in Gra- ham Greene’s The Quiet American (1955) and in Mary McCarthy’s The Seventeenth Degree (1974): both see “Vietnam as the breaking point for the ideal of liberal objective reporting” (198...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 188–190.
Published: 01 March 2016
...,andreliedoncollaborationbetweenpolitical and economic forces and between state and nonstate agents. This “quiet expansionism” (9) was no less effective, though, and the book analyzes the factors that account for its success. The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 gave rise to a dilemma: how can a republic maintain its political virtue...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 175–177.
Published: 01 March 2020
... consolidated. Park discusses the Graham Greene novel The Quiet American (1955) and its two film adaptations, along with an array of US Vietnam War films, clearly delineating “the narrowing political contours available to the Vietnamese friendly” (164). Against these works, Park productively juxtaposes...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 204–206.
Published: 01 March 2016
... and human harm of oil often occurs in the “quiet, slow accidents that become too ordinary to conceive as accident or threat”? (188). For LeMenager, the everywhereness of oil presents a problem of materialization, a problem of how to make the everywhere and the ordinary visible. This materialization...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 141–170.
Published: 01 March 2018
... more broadly. Consider how often readings of Kingston’s The Woman Warrior functionalize the quiet girl in the famous bathroom scene as a screen for Maxine’s psychic struggles. Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong ( 1993 , 78) reads the girl as a “racial shadow”; Sidonie Smith ( 1999 , 77), as “a mirror image...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 275–302.
Published: 01 June 2015
... and segregated spaces. In the first scholarly article to be written about Schwartz, she shows how New York Times journalists in the 1950s “frequently utilize sound as a stand-in for race” (68), invoking “peace and quiet” and “noise” (63) to disseminate, among other racialized meanings, “the aural...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 243–247.
Published: 01 June 2000
... and going out in Durham for a quiet celebration of a successful discipleship. Serendipity alone has offered me the opportunity to preface the Tseng 2000.5.26 10:49 OCV:4...
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American Literature 11597539.
Published: 16 December 2024
... (quoted in Vandergrift 1996: 695). Writing of impediments to children s librar y use, McDowell (2011) cites a girl who explained why she didn t get a book. I was hardly ever in a place as big as that before; it was all so quiet and everything that I didn t like to go past the door, and besides I thought...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 521–545.
Published: 01 December 2024
... them ambivalently attached to the US state and its increasingly global ambitions. Yet following Katherine McKittrick’s ( 2022 : 7) reading of Glissantian opacity as a generative methodology for the “terrible working through of objecthood and the legible and quiet forms of racist violence,” I find...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 339–364.
Published: 01 June 2001
... of himself: ‘‘He thought it was loneliness he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one place was the same as another to him. But in none of them could he be quiet’’ (226). Caught...