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American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 191–193.
Published: 01 March 2016
..., Autonomy, and Contemporary Native American Writing . By Kirwan Padraig . New York : Peter Lang . 2013 . xi , 342 pp. Paper, $72.95 ; e-book, $72.95 . Settler Common Sense: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance . By Rifkin Mark . Minneapolis : Univ...
View articletitled, Progressive Traditions: Identity in Cherokee Literature and Culture Sovereign Stories: Aesthetics, Autonomy, and Contemporary Native American Writing Settler Common <span class="search-highlight">Sense</span>: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 621–624.
Published: 01 September 2008
...Annette Trefzer © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction . By Martyn Bone. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2005. xvi, 275 pp. $49.95. Ordering the Facade: Photography and Contemporary Southern Women's Writing...
View articletitled, The Postsouthern <span class="search-highlight">Sense</span> of Place in Contemporary Fiction; Ordering the Facade: Photography and Contemporary Southern Women's Writing; Lovers and Beloveds: Sexual Otherness in Southern Fiction, 1936–1961; Desire, Violence, and Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction: Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy
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On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled Middlebrow Queer: Christopher Isherwood in America
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 415–417.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Benjamin Kahan On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility . By Martinez Ernesto Javier . Stanford, CA : Stanford Univ. Press . 2013 . xiii , 200 pp. Cloth , $70.00 ; paper , $22.95 . Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled . By Cobb Michael . New York : New...
View articletitled, On Making <span class="search-highlight">Sense</span>: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled Middlebrow Queer: Christopher Isherwood in America
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A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature; Surface and Depth: The Quest for Legibility in American Culture
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 622–624.
Published: 01 September 2004
... contexts, ‘‘structured by the con-
cept of ‘representation’ in its multiple senses, only partially stabilized in the
complex disagreements of the Founders’’ (6). For example, Emerson’s use of
his father’s notebooks anchors a chapter on ‘‘Class Actions and the discus-
sion does indeed demonstrate that t...
View articletitled, A <span class="search-highlight">Sense</span> of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature; Surface and Depth: The Quest for Legibility in American Culture
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From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, 1749-1826; Surveying the Interior: Literary Cartographers and the Sense of Place
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 200–202.
Published: 01 March 2005
... Hill: Univ. of North
Carolina Press. 2003. xix, 289 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.95.
Surveying the Interior: Literary Cartographers and the Sense of Place.ByRickVan
Noy. Reno: Univ. of Nevada Press. 2003. xxii, 220 pp. Cloth, $44.95; paper, $21.95.
Shared interests in space, place, and mapping...
View articletitled, From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Pastoral, 1749-1826; Surveying the Interior: Literary Cartographers and the <span class="search-highlight">Sense</span> of Place
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Disseminating Common Sense : Thomas Paine and the Problem of the Early National Bestseller
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American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Trish Loughran Duke University Press 2006 Trish Disseminating Common Sense:
Loughran Thomas Paine and the Problem of
the Early National Bestseller
Two figures stand out as icons of Revolutionary
communication and community. The first is Paul...
View articletitled, Disseminating Common <span class="search-highlight">Sense</span> : Thomas Paine and the Problem of the Early National Bestseller
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“An Extreme Sense of Protest against Everything”: Chester Himes’s Prison Novel
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 111–140.
Published: 01 March 2018
... diminished its political disruptiveness. Cast the First Stone labors to contain the “extreme sense of protest” that Yesterday dramatizes so powerfully. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 criminality incarceration queer race state violence penology The most deadly prison fire...
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Redistributions of the Sensible: An Introduction to “Senses with/out Subjects”
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American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 447–457.
Published: 01 September 2023
... both species and interplanetary boundaries. In Dawn (1987), for instance, surviving a planetary apocalypse and centuries of racial capitalist violence and war making requires the reeducation of the senses. When she wakes up on a spaceship after nuclear war has made most of Earth uninhabitable...
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Edgar Huntly and the Regulation of the Senses
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 419–445.
Published: 01 September 2013
.... of Pennsylvania Press . Van Sant Ann Jessie . 1993 . Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Novel: The Senses in Social Context . New York : Cambridge Univ. Press . Washington Harriet . 2006 . Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial...
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“Polluted Luxuries”: Consumer Resistance, the Senses of Horror, and Abolitionist Boycott Literature
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 2018
... consumer and producer, self and other, in ways that have horrific, haunting implications for market society, then and now. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 abolition boycott consumption poetry senses Oh press me not to taste again Of those luxurious banquet sweets! Or hide...
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Obeah’s Sensations: Rethinking Religion at the Transnational Turn
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 715–741.
Published: 01 December 2012
...-dreadfuls, and pantomimes share a common fascination with the occult forms of sensation obeah enabled, explaining away these experiences as misrecognitions of a stable material reality. Jaudon draws together recent reassessments of the history of the senses by anthropologists and challenges to secularism...
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Black Feminist Geohaptics and the Broken Earth
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American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 569–596.
Published: 01 September 2023
... the article terms Gumbs’s and Jemisin’s Black feminist geohaptics crafts new political forms of sensory dwelling and planetary futures of environmental liberation for Black life. Sense, these works show, makes legible and transforms the Anthropocene’s geographies of power, unearthing how the categories...
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“Unquestioned Citizenship”: History, Poetry, and Black and Native Military Service in Hampton Institute’s Southern Workman
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 579–605.
Published: 01 December 2024
... publicly, through imaginative verse, Black and Native military service. These writers share a hope that military service might usher in the benefits of formal citizenship. But that hope is accompanied by a sense of skepticism, in that wartime did not always yield a completely united American front...
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“Ain’t Any Chance to Rise in the Paper Business”: Poverty, Race, and Horatio Alger’s Newsboy Novels
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 473–496.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Emily Gowen Abstract This essay reconsiders literary engagements with the figure of the newsboy in terms of their own ambivalences, critiques, and calls for social reform. Taking Horatio Alger’s dime novels as a primary case study, this piece explores Alger’s sense that the growth of literary...
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The Dream of Property: Law and Environment in William T. Vollmann’s Dying Grass and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead
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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 705–731.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Ted Hamilton Abstract This article describes how the law inflects the narration of environmental conflict in William T. Vollmann’s Dying Grass (2015) and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead (1991). By focusing on the legal common sense of settler colonialism—its emphasis on private property...
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Hearing Lost, Hearing Found: George Washington Cable and the Phono-Ethnographic Ear
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 519–551.
Published: 01 September 2010
... (1880)—a text that constantly signals its own inability to reproduce the speech and music of New Orleans's Afro-Creole community—in order to illustrate the growing sense among late-nineteenth-century U.S. writers that the written word was fundamentally inadequate as a sound archive. The second half...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 443–469.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of the new Republican party: the long-standing American resentment of foreign aristocratic judgment and the growing belief that the slave oligarchy worked its will by overawing Northerners into a sense of inferiority. The novel helped to strengthen the parallel between these two anxieties by representing...
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Speculative Fictions of Slavery
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American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 779–805.
Published: 01 December 2010
...—that began to gain momentum in the 1970s. Dubey argues that the suspicion of history found in speculative fictions of slavery bespeaks a strong sense of uncertainty and pessimism about future prospects for racial politics in post–Civil Rights decades. © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Madhu...
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Angels in (Mexican) America
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American Literature (2014) 86 (4): 683–711.
Published: 01 December 2014
... of a text—its language, tone, syntax, and style—but also to the technological and social mechanics of its circulation. The methodologies of literary studies may offer some inroads to the historical study of secularism, because secularism is like literature in the sense that each is reliant for its existence...
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Ugly Data in the Age of Weather Satellites
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 815–837.
Published: 01 December 2016
... sensing and imaging, satellite media often pass as uninterpreted weather reality for popular audiences, offering visual and textual narratives of weather crises that abstract the human from environmental disaster. This essay considers the twentieth-century turn toward uninterpreted and visually centered...
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