Search Results for sery

...Mark Fulk Duke University Press 2007 Straight Writ Queer: Non-Normative Expressions of Heterosexuality in Literature . Ed. Richard Fantina. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2006. 274 pp. Paper, $45.00. Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer” (Series Q...

...Rocco Marinaccio Duke University Press 2002 Rocco George Oppen’s I’ve Seen America’ Book Marinaccio Discrete Series and the Thirties Road Narrative In the late twenties, George and Mary Oppen left George’s well-to-do San Francisco family for two long...

...”—a figure popularized in Marvel Comics's acclaimed X-Men series—whose genetic difference from humanity positioned the superhero as a cultural outsider akin to racial, gender, and sexual minorities struggling for political recognition in the post–Civil Rights period. In this essay, Fawaz theorizes...

... of the self as distinct from earlier modes of numerical self-understanding, the author argues that the data presented in White’s essay are information that index an individual within a series of existing schemas, while much of the impersonal personal data of the present are not indexical but statistical...

... Blackness in the critical genealogy of modern neurodiversity, which has largely been associated with recent movements to recognize people with autism or ADHD and has focused on the middle-class white child. Through an examination of Pauline Hopkins’s essay series for the Colored American Magazine , “Famous...

..., particularly during the material processes involved in a document’s creation and execution. Focusing on law’s materiality, this article uncovers an understudied literary vein in which Black authors represent documents as materially fragile and vulnerable to destruction in order to theorize law as a series...

... in the historiography of wartime culture. Cohen analyzes a series of contraband works: abolitionist poems by John Greenleaf Whittier; African American spirituals like “O Let My People Go”; minstrel songs like “Kingdom Coming”; and an assortment of anonymous poems published as broadsides and in periodicals...

... the novel's anti-Communism as primarily a resistance to scientism at the same time that it foregrounds a new set of historical contexts through which to see one of the novel's main series of motifs. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Scott “Simply by Reacting The Sociology of Selisker...

... is inseparable from an experience of it, the Mars books challenge preparedness by emphasizing ongoing change rather than the containment of a never-ending series of disasters. Lindsay Thomas is assistant professor of English at Clemson University. Her current book project, “Training for Catastrophe...

... presents the oscillation between familiarity and strangeness as the mechanism of wonder, both in the brain and in narrative, and performs wonder by taking readers through a series of dialectics that aim to defamiliarize the everyday. The Echo Maker ’s narrative complexity uncovers the obverse of wonder...

...Sarah Ensor In this essay, Ensor suggests that the figure of the spinster can help resolve the problems of futurity that confront queer ecocriticism insofar as the spinster practices an avuncular form of stewardship, tending the future without contributing directly to it. By looking at a series...

... and transformation that emerge from Brown’s self-duplication, I therefore argue that Clotel and its successors provide a new historiography of systemic trauma that is highly relevant to current debates on redress and reparations in the United States. Read together, this interlinked series reshapes what narrative can...

... camouflages him or her among the crowds of caricatures that inhabit West’s Hollywood. The second is what I term grotesque laughter —an affective overspill that dismantles subjectivity into a series of ontologically unstable performances. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 feeling form...

... Americans by a series of values that were much recommended to them: literacy, filial devotion, Christian charity, and group allegiance. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 racialization intertextuality signifyin(g) Nella Larsen Edith Wharton literacy It became generally...

... a decades-long struggle between the United States and the Sauks, as well as other native peoples in the western Great Lakes region, over how to conceptualize native landholding, diplomacy, and trade. The narrative explores the effects of reducing a complex regional matrix to a series of treaty-mediated...