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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 657–660.
Published: 01 September 2018
...-book available. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 In these three works, fraught mobilities, precarious senses of belonging, and alternative social forms emerge and recede against the backdrop of a homogenizing yet nonhomogeneous United States. Informed by sociological theory (Christopher C...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 607–641.
Published: 01 December 2024
..., African Americans formulated an ideal of economic citizenship that translated Black material successes and social mobility into an extra-legal symbolic citizenship; in particular, class stratification among African Americans was mobilized to counter the presumption of immutable, ontological Black...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 769–798.
Published: 01 December 2015
... become the dominant template for understanding society and the self. Patricia Highsmith's novels provide a nodal point for this political and intellectual history as she recasts representations of violence, murder, alienation, class envy, and social mobility in ways that both represent and helped define...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 141–170.
Published: 01 March 2018
... on interpretations of minority mobility. Bildungsroman hermeneutics understands social relations as organized around individual development. This model undermines the collective politics many critics sense in Cisneros’s text and obscures her revisions of the genre. Furthermore, bildungsroman hermeneutics intersects...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 271–304.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Michael C. Cohen Cohen excavates the social history of the contraband song, a genre of poetry and music popular during the American Civil War. Written in the voices of “contrabands,” former slaves living under the protection of the Union army, contraband songs emerged in the intersections...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 361–388.
Published: 01 June 2010
... constituted by economically, socially, and culturally mobile, not to mention aesthetically pleasing, bodies. Both Jewish and American, these bodies serve as touchpoints for their own desiring gazes, positing a model of assimilative empathy for “native” and immigrant alike in which “looks” refer to both an act...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 181–209.
Published: 01 March 2022
... dimensions of one’s play experience. There is perhaps nothing more American than this. In moments like these, Papers, Please reveals how gamification mobilizes procedural models of social difference as a mechanic that modulates play within dominant notions of nationhood and political representation...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 57–89.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Emily Hainze Abstract This essay explores the 1907–11 Child-Rescue Campaign run by the Delineator , a fashion magazine for women edited by Theodore Dreiser. I argue that the campaign mobilized social science to reconceptualize maternity as based in affective expertise rather than biological...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 151–177.
Published: 01 March 2005
..., participation in the upper classes was perceived as contingent on one’s unques- tionable social standing, the nation’s commercial embrace of norms for social mobility now made wealth the only determinant. In this new context of myriad, unreliable appearances, Potter’s expert gaze exposes the theatricality...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 886–888.
Published: 01 December 2019
.... Berman underscores how Fitzgerald’s characters reflect the nation’s concerns, rhythms, and tendencies from the 1910s across the 1920s. The 1920s Jazz Age, he reminds us, relied on and extended aspects of the previous decade—the emergence of the motor car, jazz music, economic and social mobility...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (2): 420–422.
Published: 01 June 2019
... change,” usually reassuring readers that schooling would not promote social mobility (22). For example, many common school narratives depict children declaiming selections of poetry, classical orations, and political speeches without apparent comprehension as an argument for textbook materials more...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 153–180.
Published: 01 March 2000
...-dream’’ of economic mobility to the ‘‘reality’’ of social Darwinism, An American Tragedy begins to thematize a new narrative economy based on spectacular relationships and the value of visibility within them...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 March 2002
... citizenship, from the ways in which he is denied status as privatepropertyowner.11 Indeed, Johnson recognizes how agents of restrictive covenants and Jim Crow legislation work to preclude unre- stricted mobility through the social landscape of New York. For John- son, then, New York does not represent...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 119–140.
Published: 01 March 2003
... can be seen as the meeting point of cultural production and the drama of class and social mobility that the literary market appeared to him to broker. Harland had great hopes for TheYokeoftheThorah,anovelcon...
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American Literature (2025) 97 (1): 155–184.
Published: 01 March 2025
... norms around masculinity, social mobility, and patriotism. The genre “demands agreement, homogeneity, [and] consensus” because it both reflects and builds a national culture (Moretti 1987 : 15). Like other authors of color, 5 Asian American writers have often deployed the bildungsroman...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 March 2004
... described as the ongoing con- struction process for social class (NPC, 144, 148–49)—in this case, the discursive mobilization of a national, maternal teaching class. Meanwhile, however, because domestic literacy narratives over- generalized an ideal of maternal pedagogy, they ignored ways in which...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 373–401.
Published: 01 June 2002
... and revivalists underscore sentimentalism’s investment in class and gender hierarchy. The mobility of both threatened the sen- timental ideals of the patriarchal family and its domestic harmony as foundational aspects of a stable social structure.11 The anxieties about social order expressed in Fall River...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 585–612.
Published: 01 September 2018
... and social mobility; it was undercut, of course, by the system of forced labor on which the nation’s economic prowess and capitalist accumulation rested. Hughes satirized this ideology in his early poetry. In “Elevator Boy” from Fine Clothes to the Jew , for example, the eponymous speaker’s only glimpse...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 355–377.
Published: 01 June 2017
...” charter schools make their choice: students succeed by will alone. Critics of “no excuses” decry a blindness to the structural issues that prevent social mobility, an air of corporate endorsement with hints of right-wing defenses for the meritocratic social order, a gorging on teaching labor whose workers...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 29–58.
Published: 01 March 2023
... education undocumented In the most widely read memoir of Latinx literature, Hunger of Memory , Richard Rodriguez ( 1982 ) formulates an enduring vision of educational mobility. 1 Rehearsing a familiar ascendant arc of a “scholarship boy” (4), beginning as a “socially disadvantaged” (1) child...
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