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Blows like a Horn: Beat Writing, Jazz, Style, and Markets in the Transformation of U.S. Culture; Notes to Make the Sound Come Right: Four Innovators of Jazz Poetry

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Scott Saul
American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 862–864.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-4-862
Published: 01 December 2005
...Scott Saul 2005 Blows like a Horn: Beat Writing, Jazz, Style, and Markets in the Transformation of U.S. Culture . By Preston Whaley Jr. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2004. 260 pp. $29.95; Notes to Make the Sound Come Right: Four Innovators of Jazz Poetry . By T. J. Anderson III...
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If God Meant to Interfere: American Literature and the Rise of the Christian Right The Production of American Religious Freedom

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Grant Shreve
American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 669–671.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7722236
Published: 01 September 2019
...Grant Shreve If God Meant to Interfere: American Literature and the Rise of the Christian Right . By Christopher Douglas . Ithaca, NY : Cornell Univ. Press . 2016 . viii, 367 pp. Cloth, $39.95 . The Production of American Religious Freedom . By Finbarr Curtis . New...
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Sounds of Defiance: The Holocaust, Multilingualism, and the Problem of English; Dialect and Dichotomy: Literary Representations of African American Speech; The Language of Caribbean Poetry: Boundaries of Expression; Their Right to Speak: Women's Activism in the Indian and Slave Debates

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Dalia Kandiyoti
American Literature (2007) 79 (2): 427–430.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-013
Published: 01 June 2007
... . By Lisa Cohen Minnick. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. xxi, 194 pp. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $22.50. The Language of Caribbean Poetry: Boundaries of Expression . By Lee M. Jenkins. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida. 2004. x, 232 pp. $59.95. Their Right to Speak: Women's Activism...
View articletitled, Sounds of Defiance: The Holocaust, Multilingualism, and the Problem of English; Dialect and Dichotomy: Literary Representations of African American Speech; The Language of Caribbean Poetry: Boundaries of Expression; Their <span class="search-highlight">Right</span> to Speak: Women&#x27;s Activism in the Indian and Slave Debates View PDF for article titled, Sounds of Defiance: The Holocaust, Multilingualism, and the Problem of English; Dialect and Dichotomy: Literary Representations of African American Speech; The Language of Caribbean Poetry: Boundaries of Expression; Their <span class="search-highlight">Right</span> to Speak: Women&#x27;s Activism in the Indian and Slave Debates
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Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830–1860; To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau's Concord

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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 172–174.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-068
Published: 01 March 2008
.... Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2005. viii, 223 pp. $80.00. To Set This World Right: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau's Concord . By Sandra Harbert Petrulionis. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2006. xi, 233 pp. $29.95. Book Reviews Godly Letters: The Literature...
View articletitled, Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830–1860; To Set This World <span class="search-highlight">Right</span>: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau&#x27;s Concord View PDF for article titled, Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Slavery, Philosophy, and American Literature, 1830–1860; To Set This World <span class="search-highlight">Right</span>: The Antislavery Movement in Thoreau&#x27;s Concord
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Her Voice Will Be on the Side of Right: Gender and Power in Women’s Antebellum Antislavery Fiction Keep the Days: Reading the Civil War Diaries of Southern Women

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Laura Henigman
American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 592–594.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8616235
Published: 01 September 2020
...Laura Henigman Steven M. Stowe has set himself the paradoxical task of reading southern women’s war diaries with empathy while acknowledging that he censures them—“they are not sympathetic figures” (x). Her Voice Will Be on the Side of Right is an unusually written book, a collection of very...
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Figure 6 Butterfly Soup’s ending scene, with its four characters from left to right: Noelle, Arkasha, Min-seo, and Diya. Screenshot by the author, 2020

Butterfly Soup ’s ending scene, with its four characters from left to right...

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in Making Queer Asiatic Worlds: Performance and Racial Interaction in North American Visual Novels > American Literature
Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 6 Butterfly Soup ’s ending scene, with its four characters from left to right: Noelle, Arkasha, Min-seo, and Diya. Screenshot by the author, 2020 More
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In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post–Civil Rights Era / Neo-Segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post–Civil Rights American Literature

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Amy Abugo Ongiri
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 445–447.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587674
Published: 01 June 2012
...Amy Abugo Ongiri In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post–Civil Rights Era . By Iton Richard . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2010 . 424 pp. Paper , $21.95 . Neo-Segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post–Civil Rights American Literature...
View articletitled, In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post–Civil <span class="search-highlight">Rights</span> Era &#x2F; Neo-Segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post–Civil <span class="search-highlight">Rights</span> American Literature View PDF for article titled, In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post–Civil <span class="search-highlight">Rights</span> Era &#x2F; Neo-Segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post–Civil <span class="search-highlight">Rights</span> American Literature
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The Climates of Liberty: Natural Rights in the Creole Case and “The Heroic Slave”

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Carrie Hyde
American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 475–504.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2079296
Published: 01 September 2013
...Carrie Hyde Hyde reassesses the relationship between natural and civil rights by tracking the climatological metaphors that shape representations of the 1841 slave revolt aboard the Creole , in which 135 slaves obtained freedom by redirecting a US ship to the British territory of Nassau, Bahamas...
View articletitled, The Climates of Liberty: Natural <span class="search-highlight">Rights</span> in the Creole Case and “The Heroic Slave” View PDF for article titled, The Climates of Liberty: Natural <span class="search-highlight">Rights</span> in the Creole Case and “The Heroic Slave”
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Mourning the Promised Land: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Automortography and the National Civil Rights Museum

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Thomas H. Kane
American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 549–577.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-3-549
Published: 01 September 2004
...Thomas H. Kane Duke University 2004 Thomas H. Mourning the Promised Land: Martin Luther Kane King Jr.’s Automortography and the National Civil Rights Museum When Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his final speech on the night of 3 April 1968...
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John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights.

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Brooke Hopkins
American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 179–180.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-78-1-179
Published: 01 March 2006
...Brooke Hopkins John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights. By David S. Reynolds. New York: Knopf. 2005. x, 578 pp. $35.00. 2006 Book Reviews John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War...
View articletitled, John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil <span class="search-highlight">Rights</span>. View PDF for article titled, John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil <span class="search-highlight">Rights</span>.
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Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity in Literature

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Allison S. Curseen
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 193–195.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1959616
Published: 01 March 2013
...Allison S. Curseen Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights . By Bernstein Robin . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2011 . 318 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper , $24.00 . Adopting America: Childhood, Kinship, and National Identity...
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Out of Brownsville: Encounters with Nobel Laureates and Other Jewish Writers American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States Race, Rights, and Recognition: Jewish American Literature Since 1969

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Jennifer Glaser
American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 625–628.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2717326
Published: 01 September 2014
... . 2010 . Syracuse, NY : Syracuse Univ. Press . $34.95 . Race, Rights, and Recognition: Jewish American Literature since 1969 . By Franco Dean J. . 2012 . Ithaca, NY : Cornell Univ. Press . $49.95 . © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Book Reviews Red Ink: Native Americans...
View articletitled, Out of Brownsville: Encounters with Nobel Laureates and Other Jewish Writers American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States Race, <span class="search-highlight">Rights</span>, and Recognition: Jewish American Literature Since 1969 View PDF for article titled, Out of Brownsville: Encounters with Nobel Laureates and Other Jewish Writers American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States Race, <span class="search-highlight">Rights</span>, and Recognition: Jewish American Literature Since 1969
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Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–civil Rights Imagination Unbecoming Americans: Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945–1960

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Alys Eve Weinbaum
American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 396–398.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2886223
Published: 01 June 2015
...Alys Eve Weinbaum Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–Civil Rights Imagination . By Tillet Salamishah . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2012 . xvi , 224 pp. $23.95 ; e-book , $23.99 . Unbecoming Americans: Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows...
View articletitled, Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–civil <span class="search-highlight">Rights</span> Imagination Unbecoming Americans: Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945–1960 View PDF for article titled, Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–civil <span class="search-highlight">Rights</span> Imagination Unbecoming Americans: Writing Race and Nation from the Shadows of Citizenship, 1945–1960
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Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination: Innocence by Association Hip Figures: A Literary History of the Democratic Party

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Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins
American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 400–402.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2886247
Published: 01 June 2015
...Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination: Innocence by Association . By Gray Jonathan W. . Jackson : Univ. Press of Mississippi . 2013 . ix , 164 pp. Cloth , $55.00 ; paper , $30.00 . Hip Figures: A Literary History of the Democratic Party...
View articletitled, Civil <span class="search-highlight">Rights</span> in the White Literary Imagination: Innocence by Association Hip Figures: A Literary History of the Democratic Party View PDF for article titled, Civil <span class="search-highlight">Rights</span> in the White Literary Imagination: Innocence by Association Hip Figures: A Literary History of the Democratic Party
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The Novel of Human Rights

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James Dawes
American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 127–157.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3453684
Published: 01 March 2016
...James Dawes In this essay, I identify the centers of aesthetic gravity that pull texts together into what I have come to think of as a subgenre of the contemporary US novel: namely, the novel of human rights. What connective structures and recurring concerns can be discerned at this early stage...
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East Meets Black: Asian and Black Masculinities in the Post–Civil Rights Era Racial Reconstruction: Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship

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Stephanie Li
American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 188–190.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3788777
Published: 01 March 2017
...Stephanie Li East Meets Black: Asian and Black Masculinities in the Post–Civil Rights Era . By Chon-Smith Chong . Jackson : Univ. Press of Mississippi . 2015 . x, 190 pp. $60.00 . Racial Reconstruction: Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship...
View articletitled, East Meets Black: Asian and Black Masculinities in the Post–Civil <span class="search-highlight">Rights</span> Era Racial Reconstruction: Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship View PDF for article titled, East Meets Black: Asian and Black Masculinities in the Post–Civil <span class="search-highlight">Rights</span> Era Racial Reconstruction: Black Inclusion, Chinese Exclusion, and the Fictions of Citizenship
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Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights; New Voices on the Harlem Renaissance: Essays on Race, Gender, and Literary Discourse

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Alisha Gaines
American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 607–609.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-023
Published: 01 September 2007
...Alisha Gaines Duke University Press 2007 Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights . By Keith D. Leonard. Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press. 2006. ix, 283 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.50. New Voices on the Harlem Renaissance...
View articletitled, Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil <span class="search-highlight">Rights</span>; New Voices on the Harlem Renaissance: Essays on Race, Gender, and Literary Discourse View PDF for article titled, Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil <span class="search-highlight">Rights</span>; New Voices on the Harlem Renaissance: Essays on Race, Gender, and Literary Discourse
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Bildungsroman Hermeneutics in the Post–Civil Rights Era

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Long Le-Khac
American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 141–170.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4326439
Published: 01 March 2018
...Long Le-Khac Abstract This essay defines the problem of bildungsroman hermeneutics for literary criticism and social policy in the post–civil rights era. Examining critical responses to Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street , it argues that the traditional bildungsroman exerts a powerful hold...
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Transforming Geographies of Black Time: How the Free Southern Theater Used the Plantation for Civil Rights Activism

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Julius B. Fleming, Jr.
American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 587–617.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7722140
Published: 01 September 2019
...Julius B. Fleming, Jr. Abstract This essay examines the cultural and political work of the Free Southern Theater, specifically how this company used plantations, porches, and cotton fields in order to build a radical black southern theater in the civil rights movement. Staging plays like Samuel...
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Ghosts of the African Diaspora: Re-visioning History, Memory, and Identity How to Read African American Literature: Post-Civil Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life

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Andreá N. Williams
American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 186–188.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8056707
Published: 01 March 2020
... Rights Fiction and the Task of Interpretation . By Aida Levy-Hussen . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2016 . xi, 211 pp. Cloth, $89.00 ; paper, $26.00 . Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life . By Christopher Freeburg . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2017 . x...
View articletitled, Ghosts of the African Diaspora: Re-visioning History, Memory, and Identity How to Read African American Literature: Post-Civil <span class="search-highlight">Rights</span> Fiction and the Task of Interpretation Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life View PDF for article titled, Ghosts of the African Diaspora: Re-visioning History, Memory, and Identity How to Read African American Literature: Post-Civil <span class="search-highlight">Rights</span> Fiction and the Task of Interpretation Black Aesthetics and the Interior Life