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“The Complexity of Loss Itself”: The Comics Form and Fun Home ’s Queer Reparative Temporality
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 377–405.
Published: 01 June 2018
... Sedgwick’s model of reparative reading, I demonstrate how Fun Home ’s form produces a version of reparation that emerges from a shared artistry and embraces ambivalent affective responses to the past. Ultimately, Bechdel produces a queer feminist reparative reading that understands futurity’s potential...
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Signifyin(g) on Reparation in Toni Morrison's Jazz
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 583–609.
Published: 01 September 2008
...” in Wild, the narrator accomplishes what Joe Trace could not. Locating her own origins in Wild's “chamber of gold,” the narrator discovers the ways in which reading itself can become a site within which to work through “paranoid” feelings and to arrive at reparation. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008...
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Relative Strangers: Contracting Kinship in the Queer Ecology Classroom
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 279–304.
Published: 01 June 2017
.... Heeding and responding to a specific experience of pedagogical surprise, this article thus reads the current predicament of higher education reparatively, describing and attempting to find meaning for what a paranoid reading (whether performed by the neoliberal institution or by its most trenchant critics...
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COVID-19: Pandemic Reading
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 681–688.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and the shape they would take. Here we find some solidarity with pandemic readers past. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, for example, begins her essay on reparative reading with a conversation she and her activist-scholar friend Cindy Patton had in the 1980s, as the two grappled with how to narrate and understand HIV...
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One More Time with Feeling: Repetition, Reparation, and the Sentimental Subject in William Wells Brown’s Rewritings of Clotel
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 241–267.
Published: 01 June 2016
... and transformation that emerge from Brown’s self-duplication, I therefore argue that Clotel and its successors provide a new historiography of systemic trauma that is highly relevant to current debates on redress and reparations in the United States. Read together, this interlinked series reshapes what narrative can...
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Postcritical Howells: American Realism and Liberal Guilt
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 229–255.
Published: 01 June 2020
..., Socialism, and Democracy. New York : Routledge . Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky . 2003a . “ Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay Is about You .” In Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity , 123 – 52 . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press...
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Imperative Reading: Brothertown and Sister Fowler
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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 595–622.
Published: 01 December 2022
... society encourages us to forget. Samson Occom gender liberalism settler colonialism reparative reading Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 [email protected] References Altman Janet Gurkin . 1982 . Epistolarity: Approaches to a Form . Columbus : Ohio...
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Brief Mention
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 914–921.
Published: 01 December 2019
...: A Mystery” (1990), and Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day (2006) are among the monograph’s objects of study. In the spirit of what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick has called “reparative reading,” this volume seeks to broaden conversations about present-day literary representations of the early American past...
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Sacra/Mentality in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 737–765.
Published: 01 December 2014
... : Routledge . Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky , ed. 1997 . “ Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading; or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Introduction Is about You .” In Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction , 1 – 40 . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . Seitler Dana . 2008...
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The Verdict from the Porch: Zora Neale Hurston and Reparative Justice
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 455–483.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Philip Joseph Duke University Press 2002 Philip The Verdict from the Porch: Zora Neale Hurston
Joseph and Reparative Justice
Well over a century after the emancipation of
American slaves and the collapse of Reconstruction, the question of
slavery...
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Ironic Institutions: Counterculture Fictions and the American Express Company
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 107–136.
Published: 01 March 2015
... : State Univ. of New York Press . Rorty Richard . 1989 . Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity . Cambridge, UK : Cambridge Univ. Press . Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky . 2003 . “ Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading; or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay Is about You...
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The Subsident Gulf: Refiguring Climate Change in Jesmyn Ward’s Bois Sauvage
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 473–496.
Published: 01 September 2021
... . Schiebinger Londa . 1999 . Has Feminism Changed Science? Cambridge , MA: Harvard Univ. Press . Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky . 2003 . “ Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay Is about You .” In Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 855–858.
Published: 01 December 2016
... an account of the transformation of individualism than of its disappearance. Roberts reads the American gothic as “literary evidence” of the cultural development of fluid, changeable selves and collectivist imaginaries, which were “better suited to an early Atlantic world bound by the fluctuations...
View articletitled, Episodic Poetics: Politics and Literary Form after the Constitution Gothic Subjects: The Transformation of Individualism in American Fiction, 1790–1861 The Life and Undeath of Autonomy in American Literature
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 656–659.
Published: 01 September 2019
... archive of efforts to attain reparations for slavery and explores Stephen Crane’s novella The Monster (1898) as a response to this context. In a revolutionary reading, The Monster emerges as a sophisticated analysis of black “hereditary social degradation” (127) and as a novella that makes the case...
View articletitled, Weapons of Democracy: Propaganda, Progressivism, and American Public Opinion Untimely Democracy: The Politics of Progress after Slavery Direct Democracy: Collective Power, the Swarm, and the Literatures of the Americas
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Spinster Ecology: Rachel Carson, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Nonreproductive Futurity
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 409–435.
Published: 01 June 2012
...: Norton, 1994), 76. Further references will be
cited parenthetically in the text as PF.
18 In this formulation (“what the present as future has already failed to
become we might hear echoes of Sedgwick’s work in “Paranoid Read-
ing and Reparative Reading, or, You’re So...
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Introduction: Queer about Comics
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 197–219.
Published: 01 June 2018
... “‘The Complexity of Loss Itself’: The Comics Form and Fun Home ’s Queer Reparative Temporality” focuses on Bechdel’s celebrated 2006 graphic memoir Fun Home to make broader claims about comics’ potentiality for queer world making. McCullough closely reads Fun Home using queer theories of temporality...
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The “Comfort” Of Critical Consolidation: Pedagogy, Ethical Alienation, and Asian American Literary Studies
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 331–354.
Published: 01 June 2017
... and Reparations for Human Injustice , edited by Brooks Roy , 113 – 25 . New York : New York Univ. Press . Howard Keith . 1996 . True Stories of the Korean Comfort Women . New York : Cassell Academic . Jay Gregory . 1991 . “ The End of ‘American Literature’: Toward a Multicultural...
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Making Queer Asiatic Worlds: Performance and Racial Interaction in North American Visual Novels
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 17–47.
Published: 01 March 2022
... is thus a collaborative and interactive process that can offer reparative responses to the “genre of man” by inviting audiences to take part in remaking their already genre-based worlds. As Kondo ( 2018 : 25) stresses, in a world structured by race, worldmaking as a frame allows us to trace...
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The Limbs of Empire: Ahab, Santa Anna, and Moby-Dick
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 29–57.
Published: 01 March 2011
...). Narratives of loss grounded
imperialism’s economy of regeneration. Starbuck’s failed reinscrip-
tion of capitalist substitution is an attempt to get out of this “blasphe-
mous” economy of inflationary reparation. James Duban reads Star-
buck’s feckless attempt to reinscribe capitalist value...
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Sacred Theories of Earth: Matters of Spirit in The Soul of Things
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 713–736.
Published: 01 December 2014
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of sacred text—or rather, it took the material world as its sacred text. In
doing so, it constituted itself as a properly historical science, with its
own mode of lithic exegesis: stratigraphic correlation, or “reading the
rock record.”1 Stratigraphic reading ignored...
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