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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 527–554.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Jake Mattox According to his 1868 biography, in 1852 Martin Delany had been elected mayor of the Nicaraguan town of San Juan del Norte, a port attracting gold rush travelers, international capitalists, canal engineers, Miskito Indians, free African Americans, and British subjects. This claim...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 879–881.
Published: 01 December 2003
.... The Post-Utopian Imagination: American Culture in the Long 1950s. By M. Keith 6986 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:4 / sheet 191 of 255 Booker. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2002. 226 pp. $59.95. This Is the Beat Generation: New York, San Francisco, Paris. By James Campbell...
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Published: 01 June 2020
Figure 1 La República de San Joaquín del Río de Chama. Image number 000-654-0040, Reies López Tijerina Photograph Collection, Center for Southwest Research, University Libraries, University of New Mexico More
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 607–641.
Published: 01 December 2024
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 151–177.
Published: 01 March 2005
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American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 March 2012
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American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 191–193.
Published: 01 March 2012
... for new ways of reading African American Literature. Gardner’s Unexpected Places emphasizes the mobility of black writing. He finds nineteenth-­century African American texts in scattered cities (St. Louis, Indianapolis, San Francisco), in varied media (the pamphlet and the periodical...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 227–257.
Published: 01 June 2005
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 805–832.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Kaplan Page Harris One of the foundational scenes of Language poetry was the San Francisco Bay area in the 1970s and early 1980s, specifically the urban concentration of activist poets who—in the face of regressive national politics—curated reading and lecture series, launched independent presses...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 755–786.
Published: 01 December 2016
... country, yet in contrast to Britain, France, or Hungary, the first black republic is seldom considered a serious actor within Uncle Tom ’s reception history. This essay considers how Stowe’s cautionary specter of the “San Domingo hour” was translated to Haiti and, in turn, the diverse ways in which...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (3): 355–380.
Published: 01 September 2024
... staging of religious declension within the theater of enslavement aboard the San Dominick , this essay shows how the novella positions the practice of human slavery as an object of belief and obligation, thereby rendering human slavery into a coherent feature of the national landscape. bryce.traister...
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Published: 01 September 2021
Figure 1 Perham Wilhelm Nahl’s lithograph The Thirteenth Labor of Hercules . Created for the Panama–Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915, this poster was selected as the exposition’s official image. 100 Years: Panama–Pacific International Exposition 1915–2015 (website) More
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 487–517.
Published: 01 September 2006
... with the ways in which the valences of sexual difference inform the turn-of-the-century fascination with and fear of ethnic and class others. Given Frank Norris’s fascination with capturing and exploring the ethnic, racial, and class diversity of San Francisco and his interest in diffusing the boundaries...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 495–520.
Published: 01 September 2000
... radicalism quietly slides into solipsistic despair. We should locate the politics of ‘‘Benito Cereno’’ upon this slippery slope—some- where between the San Dominick’s allegory and the tale’s unknow- able silences, between...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 141–166.
Published: 01 March 2008
... United States represent cultural, ethnic, racial, and sexual difference—rise to the surface. The novel is - nar rated in the waiting room of a hospital by Louie Mendoza, a jazz musi- cian from the El Paso barrio now living with his white girlfriend, la Mollie, in San Francisco. His...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 797–826.
Published: 01 December 2012
..., and James Williams’s Life and Adventures During California’s economic depression in the 1870s, Philip Alexander Bell’s San Francisco–based black weekly, the Elevator, began expressing open support for Chinese exclusion.1 In the face of intensifying labor competition, Bell, a former...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 485–511.
Published: 01 September 2020
... Literary Naturalism .” In Newlin 2011b : 71 – 91 . London Jack . n.d. Jack London Papers . Huntington Library, San Marino, CA . Lowenthal David . 2016 . “ Origins of Anthropocene Awareness .” Anthropocene Review 3 , no. 1 : 52 – 63 . Malm Andreas . 2016...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 543–569.
Published: 01 September 2020
... of the novel, Conchola, like the military at large, calls the Vietnamese “gooks, dinks, VC number one, Mama-san, Papa-san, baby-san.” In turn, Hai and his fellow villagers call the Americans “foreigner, demon, imperialist, enemy, invader.” Upon this irreconcilable enmity, Janko deploys numerous formal...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 400–403.
Published: 01 June 2020
... recognized, even by Beat aficionados, as highly problematic. In any case, the desire to codify a Beat canon seemed to run against the slipperiness of such classifications during the 1950s, when Beat, Black Mountain, New York school, confessional, San Francisco Renaissance, and other movements served...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 29–56.
Published: 01 March 2007
... of the territories to which she sends emigrants.”46 In addition, after 1905 opponents of Japanese immigration on the West Coast became more vocal as the working-class, labor-dominated Asian Exclusion Leagues and mainstream middle-class newspapers such as the San Francisco Chronicle joined forces...