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No Safe Spaces: Recasting Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in the American Theater / Enacting Others: Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith

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Patricia Ybarra
American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 675–677.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1664836
Published: 01 September 2012
... Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith . By Smith Cherise . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press , 2011 . xiv , 307 pp. Cloth , $89.95 ; paper , $24.50 . © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Book Reviews Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663–1880. By Phillip H...
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Captaine Smith, Colonial Novelist

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Ed White
American Literature (2003) 75 (3): 487–513.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-3-487
Published: 01 September 2003
...Ed White Duke University Press 2003 Ed Captaine Smith, Colonial Novelist White 6903 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:3 / sheet 3 of 209 The novel has become the leading hero in the drama...
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The Paris Paradox: Colorblindness and Colonialism in African American Expatriate Fiction

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Laila Amine
American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 739–768.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3329578
Published: 01 December 2015
... love songs to racially liberal Paris to William Gardner Smith's shrewd attack on French colonialism, the trope of interracial romance undergirds both the construction and the questioning of a colorblind Paris. I argue that as African American expatriate writers included North African characters...
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The Cod and the Whale: Melville in the Time of Extinction

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John Levi Barnard
American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 851–879.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4257892
Published: 01 December 2017
...John Levi Barnard Abstract This essay tracks the interrelated histories of the cod and the whale from John Smith’s colonial American vision of abundance to the near disappearance of the living resources he described as inexhaustible. Working at the intersections of animal studies, food studies...
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Shocking Therapy: Narrating Racism’s Psychobiological Injuries in Ralph Ellison’s Factory Hospital

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Cera Smith
American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 241–267.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11218886
Published: 01 June 2024
...Cera Smith Abstract Taking seriously Ralph Ellison’s interest in the sympathetic nervous system and his involvement in the Black hospital movement, this article demonstrates how the protagonist’s pain in Invisible Man ’s factory hospital scene influences the narrator’s writerly “choices...
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Ouch: Pain, Heard and Referred

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Catherine Belling
American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 297–324.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11218900
Published: 01 June 2024
... texts produce direct sensory effects. Scott Smith’s The Ruins (2006) is a horror novel, William Goldman’s Marathon Man (1974) a thriller, and Aron Ralston’s Between a Rock and a Hard Place (2004) (film: 127 Hours ) an adventure-survival memoir. Reading pain in each of three triple texts—book, film...
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Harriet Jacobs among the Militants: Transformations in Abolition’s Public Sphere, 1859–61

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Caleb Smith
American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 743–768.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1901427
Published: 01 December 2012
...Caleb Smith This essay examines previously unexplored divisions within the antislavery movement’s published responses to Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl . Revisiting Jacobs’s conflict with her editor, Lydia Maria Child, over the suppressed chapter about John Brown, Smith...
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Love and Theft: Plagiarism, Blackface, and Nella Larsen’s “Sanctuary”

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Barbara Hochman
American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 509–540.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3650223
Published: 01 September 2016
...Barbara Hochman Abstract When Nella Larsen’s story “Sanctuary” appeared in the Forum in 1930, readers noted its similarity to “Mrs. Adis,” a tale by the popular British writer Sheila Kaye-Smith. Scholars concur that “Sanctuary” turns a story about British class-consciousness into a story of African...
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Organic Shrapnel: Affect and Aesthetics in September 11 Fiction

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Rachel Greenwald Smith
American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 153–174.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-066
Published: 01 March 2011
...Rachel Greenwald Smith Smith's essay examines history, politics, and literary form in September 11 fiction. It begins with the contention that the traditionally conceived relationship between trauma and form poses a problem for the analysis of September 11 fiction. It is often posited...
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A Poetics of Dissociability: Poetry and Punk in Los Angeles, 1976–83

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Diarmuid Hester
American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 183–207.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7335397
Published: 01 March 2019
... Coast in orientation: the so-called punk poets of LA, who are the subject of this article, revered the New York school poetry of John Ashbery, Ted Berrigan, and Joe Brainard but also idolized downtown punks like Patti Smith. Focusing in particular on Dennis Cooper, his punk poetry periodical, Little...
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Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.s. Prison Regime; Fitting Sentences: Identity in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Prison Narratives

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Caleb Smith
American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 225–227.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-094
Published: 01 March 2007
...Caleb Smith Duke University Press 2007 Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime . By Dylan Rodriguez. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2006. 322 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95. Fitting Sentences: Identity in Nineteenth...
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Emerson and Incarceration

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Caleb Smith
American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 207–234.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-001
Published: 01 June 2006
...Caleb Smith Duke University Press 2006 Caleb Emerson and Incarceration Smith Absolute solitude, the violent turning inward on the self, whose whole being consists in the mastery of material and in the monotonous rhythm of work...
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Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions: Gender, Culture, and Nation Building; Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere; Hemispheric Imaginings: The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire

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Claudia Sadowski-Smith
American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 624–627.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-032
Published: 01 September 2006
...Claudia Sadowski-Smith Duke University Press 2006 Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions: Gender, Culture, and Nation Building . By Debra J. Rosenthal. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2004. 182 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $19.95...
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Computing: What's American Literary Study Got to Do with IT?

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Martha Nell Smith
American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 833–857.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-4-833
Published: 01 December 2002
...Martha Nell Smith Duke University Press 2002 Martha Computing: What’s American Literary Study Nell Got to Do with IT? Smith Two encounters, five years apart, inspired the ques- tion in my essay’s title. The first one occurred in spring 1995, when...
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The Fence and the River: Culture and Politics at the U.S.-Mexico Border

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Claudia Sadowski-Smith
American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 185–187.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-1-185
Published: 01 March 2002
...Claudia Sadowski-Smith By Claire F. Fox. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 1999. x, 188 pp. Cloth, $47.95; paper, $18.95. 2002 Book Reviews Coming into Communion: Pastoral Dialogues in Colonial New England. By Laura Henigman. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 1999. xi, 234...
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One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820–1870; Modern Love: Romance, Intimacy, and the Marriage Crisis; The Novel and the Obscene: Sexual Subjects in American Modernism

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Stephanie A. Smith
American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 849–851.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-054
Published: 01 December 2009
...Stephanie A. Smith © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820–1870 . By Karen Woods Weierman. x, 214 pp. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2005. $34.95. Modern Love: Romance, Intimacy...
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Anachronism and Its Others: Sexuality, Race, Temporality; Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century

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Stephanie A. Smith
American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 201–203.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-074
Published: 01 March 2011
...Stephanie A. Smith © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Anachronism and Its Others: Sexuality, Race, Temporality. By Valerie Rohy. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press. 2009. xvi, 178 pp. $70.00. Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century...
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Emily Dickinson and the Religious Imagination Uncertain Chances: Science, Skepticism, and Belief in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Secularism in Antebellum America: With Reference to Ghosts, Protestant Subcultures, Machines, and Their Metaphors; Featuring Discussion of Mass Media, “Moby-Dick,” Spirituality, Phrenology, Anthropology, Sing Sing State Penitentiary, and Sex with the New Motive Power

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Erin A. Smith
American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 821–824.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2367355
Published: 01 December 2013
...Erin A. Smith Emily Dickinson and the Religious Imagination . By Freedman Linda . New York : Cambridge Univ. Press . 2011 . x, 210 pp . $90.00 . Uncertain Chances: Science, Skepticism, and Belief in Nineteenth-Century American Literature . By Lee Maurice S. . New York...
View articletitled, Emily Dickinson and the Religious Imagination Uncertain Chances: Science, Skepticism, and Belief in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Secularism in Antebellum America: With Reference to Ghosts, Protestant Subcultures, Machines, and Their Metaphors; Featuring Discussion of Mass Media, “Moby-Dick,” Spirituality, Phrenology, Anthropology, Sing Sing State Penitentiary, and Sex with the New Motive Power View PDF for article titled, Emily Dickinson and the Religious Imagination Uncertain Chances: Science, Skepticism, and Belief in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Secularism in Antebellum America: With Reference to Ghosts, Protestant Subcultures, Machines, and Their Metaphors; Featuring Discussion of Mass Media, “Moby-Dick,” Spirituality, Phrenology, Anthropology, Sing Sing State Penitentiary, and Sex with the New Motive Power
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Barbaric Intercourse: Caricature and the Culture of Conduct,1841-1936

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Shawn Michelle Smith
American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 396–397.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-2-396
Published: 01 June 2004
...Shawn Michelle Smith By Martha Banta. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2003. xiv, 433 pp. Cloth,$75.00; paper, $30.00. 2004 Book Reviews Emerson’s Life in Science: The Culture of Truth. By Laura Dassow Walls. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2003. viii, 280 pp. $35.00...
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The Rhetoric of Uneven Modernization: Hybrid Cultures in “The South”

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Jon Smith
American Literature (2006) 78 (4): 707–709.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-78-4-707
Published: 01 December 2006
...Jon Smith Duke University Press 2006 The U.S. South in Global Contexts: A Collection of Position Statements The following collection of position statements seeks to probe the academic possibilities of ‘‘a new Southern studies’’ as an intellectual enterprise that aims to be, as Houston...
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