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Published: 01 June 2018
Figure 7 Nancy reenacts mass destruction. From Bushmiller, Nancy , June 12, 1945 More
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American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 31–65.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of Books , and elsewhere. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 James Weldon Johnson William Vander Weyde gesture electricity reenactment References Abel Elizabeth . 2012 . “Skin, Flesh, and the Affective Wrinkles of Civil Rights Photography.” Qui Parle 20 , no. 2 : 35...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 382–384.
Published: 01 June 2020
... African Americans are working to make “inclusion . . . the default value for all things southern” by changing the scripts of those cultural memories (5). Davis’s first case study is the rise of black southern performers in Civil War reenactments. These reenactors educate others about the important role...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 406–408.
Published: 01 June 2020
... and was replaced with new modes and forms of historical engagement including a fetish for the past. Television programs like The Waltons and Little House on the Prairie and historical reenactments like the Bicentennial Wagon Train Pilgrimage signaled a shift in popular taste away from earlier postwar futurist...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 533–536.
Published: 01 September 2021
... but badly broken it (165). Indeed, the mythology continues to inflict real damage. Britz and Nichols describe the rise of social clubs in Tombstone, one of them called “the Vigilantes,” dedicated to historical reenactments of shootouts and lynchings. They do not address a former Tombstone reenactor’s...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 885–888.
Published: 01 December 2017
... boundaries” of our better forbears (8). New’s investigative procedures deliberately reenact “the Calvinist-Cartesian regime” (250) of her adopted materials, with a theological underpinning dating to Cotton Mather and an apocalyptic appetite dating to Michael Wigglesworth, and with Harriet Beecher Stowe...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 639–669.
Published: 01 December 2023
... and their reenactments reach across time and space to cohere an elastic form of Black transnationalism. Robeson was attuned as much to the bounded performance of the live event at the Royal Albert Hall as to the potentiality of its translation across other media. He understood the possibility of performance to travel...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 241–267.
Published: 01 June 2016
... publicly hangs her lover. While Tillman’s depiction of a slave woman leaping in the water reenacts the most famous scene in the Clotel novels, her poem does more than recapitulate the past. Instead, as McCaskill notes, Tillman recirculates the figure of Clotel to address the issues of her present, using...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 61–87.
Published: 01 March 2012
..., shooting him in the chest and fleeing the scene. The newspaper’s lyrical, visual reenactment—a gothic tableau replete with silhouettes and rats, burnt-­out lights, and falling curtains—­ conveys a small-­town, macabre Southern event to New York readers. Faithful to the story...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 591–619.
Published: 01 September 2005
... the distinction between reenact- ment and ‘‘mere repetition’’ in TheFridayBook: ‘‘The spiral reenacts the circle, but opens out—if you’re going in the right direction. The nautilus’s latest chamber echoes its predecessors, but does not merely 602 American Literature repeat them, and it is where the animal...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 339–366.
Published: 01 June 2004
... by their desires. Their own cli- max in bed late at night in their dorm room constitutes a reenactment of the challenge they imagine was posed by Henry and Bon’s love, spoken by Bon to Henry (as by Shreve to Quentin in the retelling): —I cannot? [Bon asks.] —You shall not. —Who will stop me...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 611–613.
Published: 01 September 2008
...): the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monu- ment Indian Memorial; museums in Monroe, Michigan, Custer’s hometown; Washita Battlefield National Historic Site; a convention of Custerphiles held in the shadow of the contested Black Hills; and summer reenactments of the Little Bighorn Battle in rural...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 613–615.
Published: 01 September 2008
... Memorial; museums in Monroe, Michigan, Custer’s hometown; Washita Battlefield National Historic Site; a convention of Custerphiles held in the shadow of the contested Black Hills; and summer reenactments of the Little Bighorn Battle in rural Montana. His chapter “Testimony in Transla- tion” visits...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 615–617.
Published: 01 September 2008
... Black Hills; and summer reenactments of the Little Bighorn Battle in rural Montana. His chapter “Testimony in Transla- tion” visits the tangled archives of Native American eyewitness testimony and American Literature, Volume 80, Number 3, September 2008 © 2008 by Duke University Press 612...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 617–620.
Published: 01 September 2008
...): the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monu- ment Indian Memorial; museums in Monroe, Michigan, Custer’s hometown; Washita Battlefield National Historic Site; a convention of Custerphiles held in the shadow of the contested Black Hills; and summer reenactments of the Little Bighorn Battle in rural...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 621–624.
Published: 01 September 2008
... in the shadow of the contested Black Hills; and summer reenactments of the Little Bighorn Battle in rural Montana. His chapter “Testimony in Transla- tion” visits the tangled archives of Native American eyewitness testimony and American Literature, Volume 80, Number 3, September 2008 © 2008 by Duke...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 624–626.
Published: 01 September 2008
...” at commemorative sites (10): the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monu- ment Indian Memorial; museums in Monroe, Michigan, Custer’s hometown; Washita Battlefield National Historic Site; a convention of Custerphiles held in the shadow of the contested Black Hills; and summer reenactments of the Little...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 627–629.
Published: 01 September 2008
... Memorial; museums in Monroe, Michigan, Custer’s hometown; Washita Battlefield National Historic Site; a convention of Custerphiles held in the shadow of the contested Black Hills; and summer reenactments of the Little Bighorn Battle in rural Montana. His chapter “Testimony in Transla- tion” visits...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 629–631.
Published: 01 September 2008
...): the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monu- ment Indian Memorial; museums in Monroe, Michigan, Custer’s hometown; Washita Battlefield National Historic Site; a convention of Custerphiles held in the shadow of the contested Black Hills; and summer reenactments of the Little Bighorn Battle in rural...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 631–634.
Published: 01 September 2008
... hometown; Washita Battlefield National Historic Site; a convention of Custerphiles held in the shadow of the contested Black Hills; and summer reenactments of the Little Bighorn Battle in rural Montana. His chapter “Testimony in Transla- tion” visits the tangled archives of Native American...