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“Indelicate Exposure”: Sentiment and Law in Fall River: An Authentic Narrative
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American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 373–401.
Published: 01 June 2002
...Jeanne Elders DeWaard Duke University Press 2002 Jeanne ‘‘Indelicate Exposure Sentiment and Law in
Elders Fall River: An Authentic Narrative
DeWaard
In one of the many pamphlets published in the nine-
teenth century about the infamous ‘‘haystack murder...
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The Fence and the River: Culture and Politics at the U.S.-Mexico Border
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 185–187.
Published: 01 March 2002
... down lower Manhattan’s Catherine Street to the sort of East River market
where an Atlantic lumpen culture was coming alive. Here ‘‘there was danc-
ing among the memory of the chains’’ that bound ‘‘workers who were both
enslaved and pressed, whipped and waged’’ (22), the latter of whose elabo-
rated...
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Deep River: Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 649–652.
Published: 01 September 2002
... of Minnesota-Morris
Deep River: Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought. By Paul Allen
Anderson. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2001. x, 335 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper,
$19.95.
At least since Frederick Douglass wrestled in his Narrative with the ‘‘deep
meaning of those rude and apparently...
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River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 193.
Published: 01 March 2008
... 2008 General River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain . By Thomas Ruys Smith. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2007. x, 232 pp. $38.00. Brief Mention
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Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate: A Tale of the Times. By Walt Whitman. Ed...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 839–841.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Tyler Nickl Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909 . By Schuyler David . Ithaca, NY : Cornell Univ. Press . 2012 . xii , 206 pp. $29.95 . Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition . By Sachs Aaron . New...
View articletitled, Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson <span class="search-highlight">River</span> Valley, 1820–1909 Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition Ecopoetics: The Language of Nature, the Nature of Language
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A Storied Place: Jonathan Carver’s Travel Narrative and the Indigenous Map of the Upper Mississippi River Valley
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 March 2020
...Caroline Wigginton Abstract This essay recognizes the totality of practices by which Native peoples of the upper Mississippi River valley for centuries oriented themselves to place as an Indigenous map. After limning the map and its material and nonmaterial components, I then place it at the center...
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The Meaning of Rivers: Flow and Reflection in American Literature / Environmental Evasion: The Literary, Critical, and Cultural Politics of “Nature’s Nation.”
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 440–442.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Nicole M. Merola The Meaning of Rivers: Flow and Reflection in American Literature . By McMillin T. S. . Iowa City : Univ. of Iowa Press . 2011 . xviii, 220 pp. Paper , $34.95 . Environmental Evasion: The Literary, Critical, and Cultural Politics of “Nature’s Nation...
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Documenting Tradition: Territoriality and Textuality in Black Hawk's Narrative
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American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 677–705.
Published: 01 December 2008
...Mark Rifkin In the spring of 1832, a well-respected Sauk warrior named Black Hawk led a group of Sauks, Foxes, Kickapoos, and Potawatomies across the Mississippi River, through lands formerly occupied by the Sauks. Characterized as an assault on white settlements by U.S. officials during...
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O Cant: Singing the Race Music of Jean Toomer's Cane
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American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 725–752.
Published: 01 December 2010
... pieces—“Deep River,” “My Lord, What a
Mornin and “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” and even then only in snip-
pets—and Cane can come to seem musical in an essentially abstract
sense, more concerned with what one of its poems refers to as “soul
sounds” than with anything that could be literally heard...
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Frank O'Hara Nude with Boots: Queer Ekphrasis and the Statuesque Poet
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American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 781–806.
Published: 01 December 2007
... Rivers, Grace Harti-
gan, and Jane Freilicher—against claims that they “had lost heart and
abandoned abstract-expressionism in a cowardly fashion to return to
representational work.”47 According to these accounts, the return to
figurative painting was itself figured as a loss of nerve, a forfeit...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 345–359.
Published: 01 September 2021
... Arroyo, from where it entered the Río Puerco. Following its course though the Navajo Nation, the irradiated river left radiotoxic sediments and radioactive groundwater in wells and aquifers across Dinétah. Built on land known to be geologically unsound and displaying large cracks as early as 1977...
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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
... management, processes of river engineering and resource extraction that continue to accelerate the natural rates of subsidence. 4 Ward’s focus on sinking land as failing infrastructure develops an aesthetics of subsidence that not only describes an actual process experienced by those who live...
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Serpentine Figures, Sinuous Relations: Thematic Geometry in Allison Hedge Coke's Blood Run
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American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 807–834.
Published: 01 December 2010
...-called mounds
that once composed the Oneota site known as Blood Run, located
on both sides of the Big Sioux River on what is now the Iowa–South
Dakota border.
What remain of the largely devastated earthworks at Blood Run are
mostly unknown to contemporary citizens of the continent...
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Flooded: The Excesses of Geography, Gender, and Capitalism in Faulkner's If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem
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American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 811–835.
Published: 01 December 2001
...—the physical character—of the Mississippi
River also served as a rich source of metaphor for Faulkner. Notori-
ously unpredictable and idiosyncratic in its flows, the Mississippi be-
comes an apt metaphor in the novel for a certain conception of
Woman, for the dangerous unpredictability of capitalism...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 437–440.
Published: 01 June 2012
... of Rivers: Flow and Reflection in American Literature. By T. S.
McMillin. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2011. xviii, 220 pp. Paper, $34.95.
Environmental Evasion: The Literary, Critical, and Cultural Politics of “Nature’s
Nation.” By Lloyd Willis. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press...
View articletitled, An American Body/Politic: A Deleuzian Approach / American Spaces of Conversion: The Conductive Imaginaries of Edwards, Emerson, and James / Love’s Whipping Boy: Violence and Sentimentality in the American Imagination / Revolutionary Deists: Early America’s Rational Infidels
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Women Writers of the American West, 1833–1927 / Lost Homelands: Ruin and Reconstruction in the Twentieth Century Southwest
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 442–444.
Published: 01 June 2012
... is undergoing a similar transformation. If so, one won-
ders if the twenty-first century will, perhaps, be known as Deleuzian.
Arthur Riss, Salem State University
DOI 10.1215/00029831-1587647
The Meaning of Rivers: Flow and Reflection in American Literature. By T. S.
McMillin. Iowa City...
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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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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 445–447.
Published: 01 June 2012
... of Rivers: Flow and Reflection in American Literature. By T. S.
McMillin. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2011. xviii, 220 pp. Paper, $34.95.
Environmental Evasion: The Literary, Critical, and Cultural Politics of “Nature’s
Nation.” By Lloyd Willis. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press...
View articletitled, 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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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 447–449.
Published: 01 June 2012
.... If so, one won-
ders if the twenty-first century will, perhaps, be known as Deleuzian.
Arthur Riss, Salem State University
DOI 10.1215/00029831-1587647
The Meaning of Rivers: Flow and Reflection in American Literature. By T. S.
McMillin. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2011...
View articletitled, Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature / How to Be South Asian in America: Narratives of Ambivalence and Belonging / Writing the Ghetto: Class, Authorship, and the Asian American Ethnic Enclave
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Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination / Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 450–452.
Published: 01 June 2012
...
DOI 10.1215/00029831-1587647
The Meaning of Rivers: Flow and Reflection in American Literature. By T. S.
McMillin. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2011. xviii, 220 pp. Paper, $34.95.
Environmental Evasion: The Literary, Critical, and Cultural Politics of “Nature’s
Nation...
View articletitled, Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination / Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body
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Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature / Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 452–454.
Published: 01 June 2012
..., 249, 254). Perhaps
current cultural theory is undergoing a similar transformation. If so, one won-
ders if the twenty-first century will, perhaps, be known as Deleuzian.
Arthur Riss, Salem State University
DOI 10.1215/00029831-1587647
The Meaning of Rivers: Flow and Reflection...
View articletitled, Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature / Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging
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