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The Covert Sphere: Secrecy, Fiction, and the National Security State No Accident, Comrade: Chance and Design in Cold War American Narratives the Naked Communist: Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War

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Daniel Grausam
American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 194–197.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2400415
Published: 01 March 2014
...Daniel Grausam The Covert Sphere: Secrecy, Fiction, and the National Security State . By Melley Timothy . Ithaca, NY : Cornell Univ. Press , 2012 . x , 289 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper , $26.95 . No Accident, Comrade: Chance and Design in Cold War American Narratives...
View articletitled, The Covert Sphere: Secrecy, Fiction, and the National <span class="search-highlight">Security</span> State No Accident, Comrade: Chance and Design in Cold War American Narratives the Naked Communist: Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War View PDF for article titled, The Covert Sphere: Secrecy, Fiction, and the National <span class="search-highlight">Security</span> State No Accident, Comrade: Chance and Design in Cold War American Narratives the Naked Communist: Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War
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Liberalism and the Culture of Security: The Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric of Reform Downwardly Mobile: The Changing Fortunes of American Realism

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William J. Maxwell
American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 619–621.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2717452
Published: 01 September 2014
...William J. Maxwell Liberalism and the Culture of Security: The Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric of Reform . By Henry Katherine . Tuscaloosa : Univ. of Alabama Press . 2011 . xiv , 213 pp. Cloth , $36.50 ; e-book , $36.50 . Downwardly Mobile: The Changing Fortunes of American...
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Enumerations: Data and Literary Study Passwords: Philology, Security, Authentication The Digital Banal: New Media and American Literature and Culture

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Aarthi Vadde
American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 820–824.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8781079
Published: 01 December 2020
...Aarthi Vadde Enumerations: Data and Literary Study . By Andrew Piper . Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press . 2018 . xiii, 243. Cloth, $90.00 ; paper, $27.50 ; e-book available. Passwords: Philology, Security, Authentication . By Brian Lennon . Cambridge, MA : Harvard...
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Figure 2 The security AI *Mute in Analogue: A Hate Story. Screenshot by the author, 2020

The security AI *Mute in Analogue: A Hate Story . Screenshot by the author...

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in Making Queer Asiatic Worlds: Performance and Racial Interaction in North American Visual Novels > American Literature
Published: 01 March 2022
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Figure 4 A flowchart of operations at US airport security checkpoints from the US Customs and Border Protection website: https://www.cbp.gov/frontline/frontline-preclearance. Screenshot taken by author

A flowchart of operations at US airport security checkpoints from the US Cu...

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in Gaming Borders: The Rhetorics of Gamification and National Belonging in Papers, Please > American Literature
Published: 01 March 2022
Figure 4 A flowchart of operations at US airport security checkpoints from the US Customs and Border Protection website: https://www.cbp.gov/frontline/frontline-preclearance . Screenshot taken by author More
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Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the Making of Early America; The Backcountry and the City: Colonization and Conflict in Early America

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Duncan Faherty
American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 605–607.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-022
Published: 01 September 2007
...Duncan Faherty Duke University Press 2007 Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the Making of Early America . By Jennifer J. Baker. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2005. x, 218 pp. $50.00. The Backcountry and the City: Colonization and Conflict...
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“Just Like Home”: Richard Wright, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the New Deal

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Susan Louise Edmunds
American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 61–86.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2395519
Published: 01 March 2014
... absorbed into a new, federally configured social order that promises but ultimately fails to deliver security. When Bigger kills Mary Dalton in her bed and then uses her dead body to heat her parents’ home, he makes a mockery of the very idea of domestic security. Through his recourse to physical violence...
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Forms of Duration: Preparedness, the Mars Trilogy, and the Management of Climate Change

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Lindsay Thomas
American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 159–184.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3453696
Published: 01 March 2016
...Lindsay Thomas This essay examines two kinds of speculative fiction focused on the management of climate change: preparedness documents on climate change as a threat to national security, and Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy (1993–96), a science fiction trilogy about the terraformation...
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“Tendrils of Association”: World War I Narrative and the U.S. Political Imaginary

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Jonathan Vincent
American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 553–581.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-024
Published: 01 September 2010
... the sometimes monolithic focus on modernist or experimental writing in assessments of the postwar moment as an antiwar watershed. Vincent emphasizes war narrative's continuities with prior Progressive-Era longings for compulsory civic foundations as well as the bourgeoning culture of national security...
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Enforcement on a Grand Scale: Fugitive Intelligence and the Literary Tactics of Douglass and Melville

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Jeffrey Hole
American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 217–246.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2079143
Published: 01 June 2013
... and of conflict itself—that is, conflict as an aesthetic device within narrative as well as the thing being narrated, the manifestation of force between actors aboard the slave ship. Because the enforcement of US law and security by 1850 tended toward something supra-territorial if not transnational in scope...
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The Killing Joke of Sympathy: Chester Himes's End of a Primitive Sounds the Limits of Midcentury Racial Liberalism

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Jodi Melamed
American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 769–797.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-038
Published: 01 December 2008
... shaped a dominant practice of reading that had a regulative effect, narrowing what counted as acceptable antiracism. Melamed reads Chester Himes's End of a Primitive as a novel where we see satire deliberately misfired in an attempt to dehegemonize racial liberal meanings secured through the discourse...
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Whitman's Atom and the Crisis of Materiality in the Early Leaves of Grass

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Mark Noble
American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 253–279.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-002
Published: 01 June 2009
... ambivalence about the plenitudes secured by materialist thinking. © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Mark Whitman’s Atom and the Crisis of Materiality Noble in the Early Leaves of Grass When Justus von Liebig’s Organic Chemistry in Its Application...
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“Return of the Native”: Sterling Brown’s A Negro Looks at the South and the Work of Signifying Ethnography

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Sonnet Retman
American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 87–115.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2395528
Published: 01 March 2014
... that Brown uses signifying ethnography to craft a radical counterhistory: as he dismantles glorified depictions of the South, Brown locates alternative geographies of dissent in which to secure modern black political identities. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 References Anderson David R...
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Transparent Citizenship: The Racialization of Privacy in Post–World War II Japanese American Fiction

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Erin Suzuki
American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 521–545.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11557497
Published: 01 December 2024
... was contingent upon enforced transparency to the broader suspicion of the more generalized “Oriental” as a figure whose opacity becomes an excuse for racialized surveillance and policing in the name of national security. As formerly interned or imprisoned individuals, Yamamoto’s and Okada’s protagonists begin...
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How Quarantine Attempts to Universalize the Black Condition

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Kelly L. Bezio
American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 697–706.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8780911
Published: 01 December 2020
... of marginalized, historically disenfranchised populations to secure supply chains and ensure access to basic goods, foodstuffs, and medicines for those sheltering at home. Structuring its claims within the critical race theories of Saidiya V. Hartman, Achille Mbembe, and Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, it draws...
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Gaming Borders: The Rhetorics of Gamification and National Belonging in Papers, Please

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Gary Kafer
American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 181–209.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9697057
Published: 01 March 2022
...Figure 4 A flowchart of operations at US airport security checkpoints from the US Customs and Border Protection website: https://www.cbp.gov/frontline/frontline-preclearance . Screenshot taken by author ...
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Postapocalyptic Fantasies in Antebellum American Literature The Poetics of Insecurity Consuming Catastrophe: Mass Culture in America’s Decade of Disaster

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Lindsay Thomas
American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 159–161.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8056637
Published: 01 March 2020
... Voelz’s The Poetics of Insecurity seeks to uncover how American authors have responded to the threat of disaster. Voelz’s book is focused on the intertwined concepts of security and insecurity. Through a wide-ranging series of readings of American literature from the early republic to the twenty-first...
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The Literary Afterlife of the Korean War

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Joseph Darda
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 79–105.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2865199
Published: 01 March 2015
... video, 1:00:37. From an interview streamed by Google on February 27. Posted March 4 . www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBDARw5fdrg . NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) . 1947 . National Security Act of 1947. Pub. L. No. 80–253, 61 Stat. 495 . ———. 1949 . National Security Act...
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Metadata, Metafiction, and the Stakes of Surveillance in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad

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Katherine D. Johnston
American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 155–184.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3788753
Published: 01 March 2017
... as much control over their data profiles as they do over financial markets. Sure, we can post only the most prudent pics under the most restrictive security settings or pick only the most prudent investments, but ultimately, the algorithms and systems that govern both are largely opaque (see Pasqual 2015...
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Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages. By Mimi Thi Nguyen Neocitizenship: Political Culture after Democracy

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Russ Castronovo
American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 435–437.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7529275
Published: 01 June 2019
... ). In complementary ways, then, these texts illustrate the evolution of modern governmentality that, as Michel Foucault describes in Security, Territory, Population (2004), transformed from exercising power over individual subjects to counting, documenting, assessing, and governing an entire population...
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