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Red Ink: Native Americans Picking Up the Pen in the Colonial Period the Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism on Records: Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies

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Frank Kelderman
American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 611–614.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2717425
Published: 01 September 2014
... Jodi A. . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2011 . ix , 320 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper , $25.00 . On Records: Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory . By Newman Andrew . Lincoln : Univ. of Nebraska Press . 2012 . ii , 328 pp. $45.00...
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Making the Perfect Record

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Jentery Sayers
American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 817–818.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2367292
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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Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder , African American Literature, and Periodical Culture The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation

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Jeannine Marie DeLombard
American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 651–653.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-6994931
Published: 01 September 2018
...Jeannine Marie DeLombard Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder , African American Literature, and Periodical Culture . By Eric Gardner . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2015 . xi, 329 pp. Cloth , $105.00 ; paper, $31.95 ; e-book, $30.99 . The Black Newspaper...
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“Like a Motherless Child”: Racial Education at the New York African Free School and in My Bondage and My Freedom

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Anna Mae Duane
American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 461–488.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-021
Published: 01 September 2010
...Anna Mae Duane In this essay, Duane argues that reading two disparate texts together—the largely unknown school records chronicling the work of antebellum black children and a text by the most prominent African American author in the canon—allows a powerful model to emerge for reading the mediated...
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Intergenerational Testimonials and the Politics of Black Cherokee Belonging

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Eve Eure
American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 671–690.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11557553
Published: 01 December 2024
... intergenerational testimonials because they record how the Shoe Boots family produced their own archive, their own print record across time and for future generations, as one strategy to build a livable world within and on Cherokee lands. As intergenerational testimonials, they transmit histories of unfinished...
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The End of the American Funding Model: What Comes Next?

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Christopher Newfield
American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 611–635.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-026
Published: 01 September 2010
... source. Using datasets recently compiled by scholars with unusual access to student records, he demonstrates that underachievement is directly tied to underfunding. The antiegalitarian effects of the current American Funding Model cause the decline of U.S. educational attainment. But why do educational...
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What to the American Indian Is the Fourth of July? Moving beyond Abolitionist Rhetoric in William Apess's Eulogy on King Philip

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Drew Lopenzina
American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 673–699.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-041
Published: 01 December 2010
... peoples in the nineteenth century and the archival absences imposed by a settler culture determined to make Natives “vanish” from the colonial scene. When we make the attempt to regard Apess's narrative from “Native space,” weighing the loose materials of his life as he recorded them against a deeper...
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Serpentine Figures, Sinuous Relations: Thematic Geometry in Allison Hedge Coke's Blood Run

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Chadwick Allen
American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 807–834.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-046
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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Obeah’s Sensations: Rethinking Religion at the Transnational Turn

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Toni Wall Jaudon
American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 715–741.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1901418
Published: 01 December 2012
... by political theorists to unsettle these texts’ easy dismissal of the strange sense perceptions and bodily capacities that obeah cultivated among enslaved persons. In their anxious attempts to debunk obeah, these narratives record what Jacques Rancière calls a “dissensus”: a clash between competing models...
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“Freedom with a Vengeance”: Choosing Kin in Antislavery Literature and Law

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Edlie Wong
American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 7–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-049
Published: 01 March 2009
... (1836). It explores material that has been largely left out of the antislavery story: the cases brought by abolitionists to free slaves who had traveled with their masters into free territory. Wong's essay reconstructs the records of these cases from popular literature, newsprint, and legal pamphlets...
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Whitman's Atom and the Crisis of Materiality in the Early Leaves of Grass

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Mark Noble
American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 253–279.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-002
Published: 01 June 2009
..., laboring to fashion a temporary space from which poems of democratic adhesion might be uttered. If in 1856 the atom enables the poet to transcend space and time, in 1860 he may convert matter into spirit, but he may not outlive it. Read in this light, Whitman's early editions of Leaves record an important...
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Unruly Empiricisms and Linguistic Sovereignty in Thomas Jefferson's Indian Vocabulary Project

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Sarah Rivett
American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 645–680.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3329542
Published: 01 December 2015
... Vocabulary archive displays telling instances of cross-cultural mistranslation as indigenous words spill beyond Jefferson's rules of orthography and beyond the word list itself in formal defiance of Jefferson's goal of recording the ancient and pure sounds of “primitive” America. This essay argues...
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Transatlantic Picture Stories: Experiments in the Antebellum American Comic Strip

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Alex Beringer
American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 455–488.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3149333
Published: 01 September 2015
... emerges from this study is a newly coherent picture of recurring forms, conventions, and themes that constitute a distinctively American style of comic strip. From one perspective, this is a record of visual conventions that would dominate twentieth- and twenty-first-century comics. But it is also...
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Sono-Montage: Langston Hughes and Tony Schwartz Listen to Postwar New York

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Lisa Hollenbach
American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 275–302.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2886127
Published: 01 June 2015
... of montage to splice the sounds of their local New York neighborhoods. Hughes’s Montage of a Dream Deferred and Schwartz’s “New York 19” tape-recording projects locate a crisis in listening in New York’s postwar urban geography of race and economics. Although their projects differ in significant ways, both...
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Metadata, Metafiction, and the Stakes of Surveillance in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad

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Katherine D. Johnston
American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 155–184.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3788753
Published: 01 March 2017
... structure the novel’s investments in data surveillance. Moreover, to the extent that the novel’s form mirrors a musical album it also forms a network of characters, speaking to the constellation of forces that not only convert analog recordings into digital data, but also translate relationships, habits...
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“Multiplied without Number”: Lynching, Statistics, and Visualization in Ida B. Wells, Mark Twain, and W. E. B. Du Bois

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Benjamin J. Murphy
American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 195–226.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9003554
Published: 01 June 2021
...Benjamin J. Murphy Abstract Quantification has long played a vexed role in efforts to record and resist racial violence. Building from Ida B. Wells’s antilynching crusade, this essay examines the risks and power of calculating life and death at the close of the nineteenth century. For her part...
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The Arts of Antifascist Black Transnationalism during the Spanish Civil War

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Brandon Truett
American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 639–669.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10950740
Published: 01 December 2023
... Teeth about 1936 Harlem. Using archival research, this article analyzes the collage aesthetic of the scrapbook that the activist Thyra J. Edwards compiled in 1937 to record the actions of the Negro People’s Committee to Aid Spain. In sum, this article demonstrates the integral role of African American...
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“Unquestioned Citizenship”: History, Poetry, and Black and Native Military Service in Hampton Institute’s Southern Workman

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Sidonia Serafini
American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 579–605.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11557521
Published: 01 December 2024
.... With such contingencies in mind, writers use the act of military service as inspiration for the act of writing into the historical and literary record the legacy of Black and Native commissioned and noncommissioned men and women, bestowing upon each other a sense of “unquestioned citizenship” that the nation would...
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Rest Cure versus Rest Tour: The Queer Routes of White Women’s Health

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Samaine Lockwood
American Literature (2025) 97 (1): 93–120.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11597526
Published: 01 March 2025
... contestation of S. Weir Mitchell’s rest cure with Mitchell’s writings, as well as the archival records of the WRTA’s innovative rest tour, reveals the roots of white women’s self-care practices and their biopolitical investments. We also gain insight into how white queer communities have long leveraged...
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Figure 2 Letter from Carl Aimone dated May 30, 1946. Letters from Servicemen A-C; Council on Books in Wartime Records, MC038, Public Policy Papers, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

Letter from Carl Aimone dated May 30, 1946. Letters from Servicemen A-C; Co...

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in “In Accord with the Spirit of American Democracy”: Tracing the Network of the US Armed Services Editions > American Literature
Published: 01 December 2023
Figure 2 Letter from Carl Aimone dated May 30, 1946. Letters from Servicemen A-C; Council on Books in Wartime Records, MC038, Public Policy Papers, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library More