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“Indelicate Exposure”: Sentiment and Law in Fall River: An Authentic Narrative

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Jeanne Elders DeWaard
American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 373–401.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-2-373
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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Claudia Sadowski-Smith
American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 185–187.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-1-185
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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John Gennari
American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 649–652.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-3-649
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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-80-1-193
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 Editions Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate: A Tale of the Times. By Walt Whitman. Ed...
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Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River 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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Tyler Nickl
American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 839–841.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2811670
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...
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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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Caroline Wigginton
American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 1–31.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8056576
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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Nicole M. Merola
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 440–442.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587656
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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Mark Rifkin
American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 677–705.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-035
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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T. Austin Graham
American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 725–752.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-043
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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Brian Glavey
American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 781–806.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-039
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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Introduction: The Infrastructure of Emergency

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Jessica Hurley, Jeffrey Insko
American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 345–359.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9361209
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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Kelly McKisson
American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 473–496.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9361279
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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Chadwick Allen
American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 807–834.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-046
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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Cynthia Dobbs
American Literature (2001) 73 (4): 811–835.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-4-811
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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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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Arthur Riss
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 437–440.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587647
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 View PDF for article titled, 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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Amy T. Hamilton
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 442–444.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587665
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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Amy Abugo Ongiri
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 445–447.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587674
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...
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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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Jeehyun Lim
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 447–449.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587683
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...
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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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Suzanne Schneider
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 450–452.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587692
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...
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Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature / Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging

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Karen Dubinsky
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 452–454.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587701
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 View PDF for article titled, Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature / Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging