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Cesar Chavez’s Video Collection
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 811.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Curtis Marez Marez’s author statement introduces a Scalar project titled “Cesar Chavez’s Video Collection,” which finds in Chavez’s store of graphics, photos, films, and videos from the 1940s to the 1990s evidence of farm workers’ appropriation of visual technologies to project social alternatives...
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Holocaust Survivors on Schindler’s List
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 813–814.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Jeffrey Shandler Shandler’s author statement introduces a Scalar project titled “Holocaust Survivors on Schindler’s List ; or, Reading a Digital Archive against the Grain.” Examining references to the 1993 film Schindler’s List in videotaped interviews with Holocaust survivors at the USC Shoah...
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Chaos and Control
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 815–816.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Steve Anderson Anderson’s author statement introduces a Scalar project titled “Chaos and Control: The Critique of Computation in American Commercial Media (1950-1980),” which examines the critiques of computing culture posed by TV and movies during the mainframe computer age by looking closely...
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Making the Perfect Record
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 817–818.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Jentery Sayers Sayers’s author statement introduces a Scalar project titled “Making the Perfect Record.” This project unpacks the often ignored, pre-1940s history of magnetic recording, with particular attention to how—through an interweaving of print fiction, sound transduction, storage media...
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Index to Volume 85 (March 2013-December 2013)
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 845–862.
Published: 01 December 2013
...–1980)” (Scalar project), DOI 10.1215/00029831
-2370221.
Scalar Project Author Statement: “Chaos and Control,” 815–16.
Blum, Hester. Review: Elmer, On Lingering and Being Last: Race and Sover-
eignty in the New World, 591–93.
Review: Levine, Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 615–628.
Published: 01 December 2013
...) come into close contact with theories of race,
temporality, labor, and knowledge. More specifically, the six essays
you hold in your hand in the print issue of the journal (or, perhaps more
likely, are reading online as PDFs) and the four Scalar projects that
reside on our website address...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 687–688.
Published: 01 September 2011
... that use new media
in their very form. If you are interested in submitting a more experimental
piece, please contact the editors before submitting. Some production support
may be available for these works, especially for work undertaken in the new
authoring platform Scalar. Scalar is designed...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 231–232.
Published: 01 March 2012
... pieces that use new media
in their very form. If you are interested in submitting a more experimental
piece, please contact the editors before submitting. Some production support
may be available for these works, especially for work undertaken in the new
authoring platform Scalar. Scalar...
Journal Article
Announcements
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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 889–891.
Published: 01 December 2011
...
in their very form. If you are interested in submitting a more experimental
piece, please contact the editors before submitting. Some production support
may be available for these works, especially for work undertaken in the new
authoring platform Scalar. Scalar is designed to make it easy for authors...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 863.
Published: 01 December 2014
... Prize, awarded annu-
ally by the Don D. Walker Prize Committee and the Western Literature Asso-
ciation for the best essay published on western American literature in the
previous year.
Curtis Marez was awarded an honorable mention for “Cesar Chavez’s Video
Collection,” a Scalar project...
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An Overstory for Our Time
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 799–807.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and populations vulnerable to infection. A similar scalar logic is at work at the end of The Overstory , which finds Nick Hoel—his surname an expression of both completion and emptiness—finishing a work of land art in which downed trees spell out the word STILL. With this “word life has been saying, since...
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When Citizenship and National Belonging Diverge
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 757–768.
Published: 01 December 2024
... with captivity in boarding schools for Native American children in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. What Brady calls scalar logic seems to inflect her use of eighteenth-century casta paintings to set up racialized exclusion in the twentieth-century United States. While casta art provides...
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Darkness on the Edge: Revisionary Black Radicalism in the Depression Era
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 573–584.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., of invisibility, of absence. In a neoliberal order whose imagination orbits around the concepts of growth, accumulation, and expansion, at all scalar levels from the individual life to the multinational corporation, to lack property is to risk lacking properties , to become opaque and unnarratable, to attract...
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The Language of the Stones: The Agency of the Inanimate in Literary Naturalism and the New Materialism
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 225–252.
Published: 01 June 2015
... to a single explanation for Hurstwood’s crime is not a
flaw in the text but rather an attempt to account for the actions of his
character in a more realistic fashion. His novel might therefore be seen
to exemplify a “trans-scalar imaginary” that assists us in developing a
fuller picture of reality.9...
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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
... Jack Gieseking ( 2018 ) and Geraldine Pratt and Victoria Rosner ( 2012 ), who argue for a scalar framing of global-intimate. 16 Borrowing from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick ( 2003 : 131), I suggest here that the focus on rising seas has become a particular paranoia of climate change discourse, “blotting...
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The Plantation Countermelodies of Dunbar and Du Bois: Writing Agropolitical Subjecthood in the Nadir
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 557–586.
Published: 01 September 2019
... attention to cotton is perhaps most significant, for as Beckert has demonstrated, cotton was ab initio the raw material that catalyzed the Industrial Revolution and solidified the bond among modern global markets. To calibrate these scalar relationships, the novel pans out to the macrocosm—underlining...
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Archipelagic Diaspora, Geographical Form, and Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
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American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 121–149.
Published: 01 March 2013
... and
hypothetical island-space arrives through the novel’s dedication to
the type of geographically scalar play that earlier permitted her to
look at a mud-puddle and see an ocean with ships. Now, as the hurri-
cane remaps Palm Beach County, the storm offers an impetus for the
explicit vision of archipelagic...