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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 432–434.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Robin E. Field © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Transcending the New Woman: Multiethnic Narratives in the Progressive Era . By Charlotte J. Rich. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2009. viii, 230 pp. $39.95. Native Speakers: Ella Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 333–361.
Published: 01 June 2013
... for aesthetic excellence but opts to place the poem’s lyric speaker not aloft with the solitary and expert artist but below with a set of well-meaning but inept creatures. This shift in Moore’s artistic priorities provides a lens for understanding the topicality and fond humor of her later poetry...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 645–680.
Published: 01 December 2015
... that the vocabulary lists reveal forms of linguistic sovereignty whereby the indigenous speakers interviewed for the project refused to have their languages condemned to the atavistic detritus of American antiquity. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 American Philosophical Society early republic language...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 253–279.
Published: 01 June 2009
... material limitations. Many of Whitman's 1860 poems, however, also encounter a deathliness of matter (the speaker figured as a “trail of drift and debris,” for instance, in “As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life”). In his “Calamus” cluster especially, Whitman speaks as though from the margins of his own oeuvre...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 666–668.
Published: 01 September 2019
... for a nonlinear approach that problematizes narratives of health activism. Ghostly Figures explores how “postwar poems often depict speakers who remember the past only partially, in ways that reveal that memory is itself obstructed” (1–2). For Keniston, belatedness is as psychological as it is formal...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 541–561.
Published: 01 September 2005
... to mediate the division between the personal and the public.5
The conventional elegy moves the reader and the speaker through
the mourning process to achieve consolation. But as Alexie asks in
the opening poem for his third collection, Old Shirts & New Skins
(1993), what happens when the speaker...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 33–63.
Published: 01 March 2005
... agency, just as
their spontaneity might appear to express their stereotypical impul-
siveness. Women speaking politically through the convention of ge-
nius certainly resemble the trance speakers who, Anne Braude has
argued, were permitted the platform because they channeled a con-
tent...
Journal Article
American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 539–567.
Published: 01 September 2023
... as an illustration of a refugee passage through fire. This transit evokes what Anne Harris ( 2015 : 47) describes as the “intertwined ontologies” of fire and the human. As the poem’s speaker intimates, however, not all intertwinings are consensual or easily embraced. Harris’s overview of fire’s entanglement...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 273–300.
Published: 01 June 2012
... objects of trade as the central figures for the speaker’s nostal-
gia. More concretely than the breeze of “Subway Wind,” these objects
evoke the Jamaican landscape of slavery—specifically the provision
ground. The tropics are in New York in the form of “Bananas ripe and
green, and ginger root...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 769–795.
Published: 01 December 2012
... to effortlessly
inhabit the subject position of the speaker, thus generating an imag
ined community of readers sharing similar emotions and experiences.
This intimate association was taken to its extreme conclusion by those
who claimed the poem as their own. What Akers Allen calls “a queer
freak...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (2): 393–411.
Published: 01 June 2007
..., but heartbreaking or heartwarming affair of omis-
404 American Literature
sions and commissions the greatest of which will seem infinitesimal,
ludicrously beneath notice” (“PP,” 500). Hence, “The Fish.” Coming
to whatever understanding of the fish that the poem’s speaker comes
to and then letting...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (4): 685–712.
Published: 01 December 2021
... appears as the more immediate effect, if not the cause. While the speaker turns the gunshot against his oppressors, “like a true // Charlie,” reappropriating the derogatory label used against the Vietnamese, he also seems indistinguishable from those oppressors. This emphasizes the relational nature...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 451–481.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., and illustrated lectures on natural history.19 Herworkfromthis
period constructs a new kind of didactic poetry, mimetic of the free
evening lecture, as her speakers deliver digressive talks on an eclectic
range of disciplines, ranging from horticulture Camellia Sabina to
geology The Octopus to archaeology...
Journal Article
American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 511–539.
Published: 01 September 2005
... to land and it is difficult to walk.
With a gentle breeze I arrived at the city thinking all would be so.
At ease, how was one to know he was to live in a wooden
building? 1
This speaker, one of hundreds who wrote poems on the walls of Angel
Island, highlights the difficulties of his passage...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (4): 655–683.
Published: 01 December 2021
... and the socialist feminist group Bread and Roses) uses analogy to broaden rather than delimit the grounds on which women might relate to one other and elaborate their own politics. “My woman’s body” is “like Venezuelan oil,” but it’s also “like yours.” Rather than straining the speaker or dissipating her energies...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 113–141.
Published: 01 March 2007
.... Although the poem shares
the magazine’s agenda of “changing the false opinions that most whites
have of us,” as one black reader put it,18 Brooks’s speaker sometimes
puts herself at odds with Ebony’s readership from the black middle
class. As she presents Satin-Legs Smith to them and to liberals...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 59–88.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., female speaker through the embodied actions of learning a language: “She mimicks the speaking. . . . Bared noise, groan, bits torn from words. . . . She would take on their punctuation. . . . She would become herself, demarcations . . . dissolving her ” (Cha 1982 : 3–5). Shot through with disjointed...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 275–306.
Published: 01 June 2004
...
alone before 1890. Far more typical is the portrayal in William Cullen
Bryant’s ‘‘The Crowded Street’’ (1843), whose speaker surveys an
‘‘ever-shifting train’’ of walkers and concludes that the city is a space
defined by structural incoherence: ‘‘Each, where his tasks or pleasures
call, / They pass...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 2018
... spanning the Northeast (Ripley et al. 1991 , 137). Harper, one of the most prolific African American writers and speakers of the nineteenth century, was highly active in integrated networks; she wrote for, spoke with, and lived among both African American and white audiences (Foster 1990 , 13). Both...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 791–820.
Published: 01 December 2017
... lull. Cold morning to night, we go so slowly, without thought to ourselves. (Enough to have thought tonight, nothing finishes it. What you are, will have no certainty, or end. ( 1964b , 9) A familiar scene defamiliarized: the speaker catches the eye of a stranger, who in turn signals...
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