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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 619–647.
Published: 01 September 2019
... figures through the lens of satire, both novels denounce black exceptionalism as a necropolitical tool of oppression that entrenches the social death and civic exclusion of black people in a modern US society that purports to be color-blind and postracial. Emerging within the postmodern turn...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 419–445.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Emily Ogden Controversy over Freudian approaches to Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly (1799) has obscured the novel’s sensory politics. Psychoanalytic readers like Leslie Fiedler, in Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), discovered in Brown’s novel a striking confirmation...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 523–551.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Stefan Andriopoulos Abstract How was it possible that numerous nineteenth-century readers believed in the authenticity of a made-up sensational story about a mesmerist experiment that supposedly arrested its subject between life and death? By juxtaposing Edgar Allan Poe’s “Facts in the Case of M...
FIGURES
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 549–577.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of race even as they are motivated by
impending violence or death.17 Theresultsofsuchasubstitutionofself
for race ring both heroic and apocalyptic, as the individual death can
signify the death of racism or the death of the race. Interrogating the
intersection of social death and phenomenological...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 389–411.
Published: 01 June 2011
... his naming of the phenomenon of
social death, that awkward reality in which the slave becomes indis-
pensable to the functioning of society to the extent that the liberal
recognition of innate rights and responsibilities is suspended, I would
propose that it is time for us...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 206–209.
Published: 01 March 2009
...
norms, is to live among the socially dead” (9). A number of concerns come
together under the rubric of disrupted or stigmatized kinship: “From the
social death of slavery, to the imagined threat of contamination and devolu-
tion that miscegenation posed in postbellum America and beyond...
Journal Article
American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 196–198.
Published: 01 March 2009
...
norms, is to live among the socially dead” (9). A number of concerns come
together under the rubric of disrupted or stigmatized kinship: “From the
social death of slavery, to the imagined threat of contamination and devolu-
tion that miscegenation posed in postbellum America and beyond...
Journal Article
American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 193–196.
Published: 01 March 2009
... under the rubric of disrupted or stigmatized kinship: “From the
social death of slavery, to the imagined threat of contamination and devolu-
tion that miscegenation posed in postbellum America and beyond, to contem-
porary anxieties that the birth of gay marriage portends the death...
Journal Article
American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 199–200.
Published: 01 March 2009
...
norms, is to live among the socially dead” (9). A number of concerns come
together under the rubric of disrupted or stigmatized kinship: “From the
social death of slavery, to the imagined threat of contamination and devolu-
tion that miscegenation posed in postbellum America and beyond...
Journal Article
American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 201–203.
Published: 01 March 2009
... under the rubric of disrupted or stigmatized kinship: “From the
social death of slavery, to the imagined threat of contamination and devolu-
tion that miscegenation posed in postbellum America and beyond, to contem-
porary anxieties that the birth of gay marriage portends the death...
Journal Article
American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 203–205.
Published: 01 March 2009
...
norms, is to live among the socially dead” (9). A number of concerns come
together under the rubric of disrupted or stigmatized kinship: “From the
social death of slavery, to the imagined threat of contamination and devolu-
tion that miscegenation posed in postbellum America and beyond...
Journal Article
American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 307–327.
Published: 01 June 2021
...). A perhaps more unlikely optimist in the academy is the very scholar whose work has been pivotal for Afropessimists. Orlando Patterson has noted the irony of Afropessimists finding an important analytical rubric in his classic Slavery and Social Death (1982). Suggesting that “[w]e’re going through a period...
Journal Article
American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 29–58.
Published: 01 March 2023
... that naturalizes migrant death and undocumented social death. In chapter 8, “On the Need for Self-Amnesty,” Ledesma reproduces a 2013 speech delivered at UC Berkeley’s Latinx Alumni Association, in which he brings undocumentedness to the forefront and promotes the practice of “self-amnesty” as a way...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 409–412.
Published: 01 June 2020
..., to Perry’s statement in her last chapter that she has “never believed in theories of social death”: “people live in the zone of non-personhood. They may be treated as ‘dead’ before the law. But their creations have always persisted, and they trouble and haunt the dominant order. Their life and love...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 115–143.
Published: 01 March 2021
..., the narrator refers to the same tunnel as “deathless” (100). Like the railroad, Black life is often formulated as limned with death (social, civil, corporeal) that nonetheless fails to totalize Black existence. 18 Moreover, though the railroad does not carry Cora to freedom, it still seems imbued...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 243–269.
Published: 01 June 2010
... of their Sunday
school books, students like Topsy had to endure a social death before
they could be brought back to life through education.
Yale University
Notes
This essay on pedagogy has benefited immeasurably from the graduate
instruction of Wai Chee Dimock, who nurtured it from...
Journal Article
American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 115–121.
Published: 01 March 2023
... life/social death. Moreover, Douglass’s choice is then shared out in his writings, speeches, and activism, nourished by and nourishing a collective freedom movement that informed his choice and its subsequent aesthetic crafting. Unlike the Sartrean tradition and its individual isolate, a Black...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 447–457.
Published: 01 September 2019
... : 1–2). Poststructuralist theory’s critique of the West’s supposed rational social organization challenged conceptions of the subject. If the modern state is structured by its power over life and death rather than its composition by a polity of autonomous subjects amalgamated through collective...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 123–150.
Published: 01 March 2005
... but to a social death.13 As she becomes the marital property
of St. Elmo, her presence is erased from the novel she has dominated;
she ceases to exist as an independent mind and, indeed, as an autono-
mous person.
Readers of St. Elmo have tended to use the devastation of the novel’s
conclusion to assess...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 23–50.
Published: 01 March 2015
... : Random House . Patterson Orlando . 1982 . Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study . Cambridge : Harvard Univ. Press . Pluchon Pierre . 1987 . Vadou, sorciers, empoisonneurs de Saint-Domingue à Haïti (Voodoo sorcerers, poisoners: From Saint Domingue to Haiti) . Paris...
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