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Creole Drama: Theatre and Society in Antebellum New Orleans Provocative Eloquence: Theater, Violence, and Antislavery Speech in the Antebellum United States
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 589–591.
Published: 01 September 2020
...” address; another investigates a dramatization of abolitionist John Brown’s life, Kate Edwards Swayze’s Ossawattomie Brown (1859), beside speeches by African American leaders and Henry David Thoreau. The dramas remained problematic, of course, especially as playwrights often favored white characters...
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Portrait of Joseph Cinque (Cinquez) with a fragment of his speech given on ...
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in Revolutionary Worldmaking: James Monroe Whitfield’s Poems in Martin Delany’s Blake; or, The Huts of America
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Published: 01 March 2025
Figure 3 Portrait of Joseph Cinque (Cinquez) with a fragment of his speech given on board the Amistad , 1839. Library of Congress
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Melville's Subversive Political Philosophy: “Benito Cereno”and the Fate of Speech
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American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 495–520.
Published: 01 September 2000
...Maurice S. Lee Duke University Press 2000 Maurice S. Melville’s Subversive Political Philosophy:
Lee ‘‘Benito Cereno’’ and the Fate of Speech
6141 AL 72:3 / sheet 39 of 237...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 858–861.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Yoonmee Chang 2005 Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech . By Patti Duncan. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2004. xvi, 274 pp. $34.95; Crossing Cultures: Creating Identity in Chinese and Jewish American Literature .By Judith Oster. Columbia...
View articletitled, Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of <span class="search-highlight">Speech</span>; Crossing Cultures: Creating Identity in Chinese and Jewish American Literature; Imagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique
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Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James; Troubling Minds: The Cultural Politics of Genius in the United States, 1840-1890
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American Literature (2007) 79 (2): 417–419.
Published: 01 June 2007
...Wendy Graham Duke University Press 2007 Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James . By J. Hillis Miller. New York: Fordham Univ. Press. 2005. xiii, 350 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $24.00. Troubling Minds: The Cultural Politics of Genius in the United States, 1840-1890...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (2): 427–430.
Published: 01 June 2007
...Dalia Kandiyoti Duke University Press 2007 Sounds of Defiance: The Holocaust, Multilingualism, and the Problem of English . By Alan Rosen. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2005. xiv, 248 pp. $45.00. Dialect and Dichotomy: Literary Representations of African American Speech...
View articletitled, Sounds of Defiance: The Holocaust, Multilingualism, and the Problem of English; Dialect and Dichotomy: Literary Representations of African American <span class="search-highlight">Speech</span>; The Language of Caribbean Poetry: Boundaries of Expression; Their Right to Speak: Women's Activism in the Indian and Slave Debates
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Infidel America: Puritan Legacy and Antebellum Religious Persecution in Frederick Douglass’s Transatlantic Speeches, 1841–49
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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 723–752.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Daniel Grace Abstract This essay examines Frederick Douglass’s oratory of the 1840s, when religious appeals drove his abolitionist rhetoric. In addressing the lack of critical attention paid to his early oratory and evangelism, the essay argues that these speeches, which he delivered to audiences...
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My Way, Speeches and Poems
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American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 663–664.
Published: 01 September 2000
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‘‘distort[ed] the history of women’s participation in the political process’’ (1).
A well-documented study, Well-Tempered Women is illuminated by numer-
ous archival materials as well as by recently published collected speeches...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Laura L. Mielke This essay claims that antebellum theatrical star Edwin Forrest registered the era’s investment in oratorical eloquence and anxiety concerning the potentially incendiary nature of free expression in a democracy marked by economic and racial inequality. Forrest’s July 4, 1838, speech...
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Heartfelt Thanks to Punch for the Picture: Frederick Douglass and the Transnational Jokework of Slave Caricature
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 57–90.
Published: 01 March 2010
... citation of these images in various mid-nineteenth-century speeches, Chaney argues that this intertextual and transatlantic dialogue with Punch enabled Douglass to renegotiate inscriptions of racialization, authority, and iconic celebrity. Beyond the cartoons, key pieces of evidence utilized in the essay...
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The Unsentimental Woman Preacher of Uncle Tom's Cabin
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American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 265–292.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Dawn Coleman Challenging the critical commonplace that Uncle Tom's Cabin is, in effect, a sentimental sermon, this essay takes the novel's relationship to preaching, one of the most culturally authoritative forms of speech in antebellum America, as itself an object of analysis. It shows that Stowe...
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Hearing Lost, Hearing Found: George Washington Cable and the Phono-Ethnographic Ear
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 519–551.
Published: 01 September 2010
... (1880)—a text that constantly signals its own inability to reproduce the speech and music of New Orleans's Afro-Creole community—in order to illustrate the growing sense among late-nineteenth-century U.S. writers that the written word was fundamentally inadequate as a sound archive. The second half...
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Marianne Moore’s Depression Collectives
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 333–361.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Odile Harter The Great Depression engendered a special kind of first-person plural, which drove fundamental changes in Marianne Moore’s quoting practice during the period. She moved toward a quotation practice that was less dense, drawn increasingly from mottoes and collective speech, and couched...
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The Arts of Antifascist Black Transnationalism during the Spanish Civil War
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American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 639–669.
Published: 01 December 2023
... that extends work by Brent Hayes Edwards, Robert F. Reid-Pharr, and Nadia Nurhussein. To manifest this argument, this article examines Paul Robeson’s speeches at rallies in London that he later reprinted in his autobiography Here I Stand (1958) and Claude McKay’s posthumously published novel Amiable with Big...
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“A silence that only they understand”: Amiri Baraka and the Silent Vernacular of The Dead Lecturer
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 791–820.
Published: 01 December 2017
... improvisation on the iconography of black vernacular life. In the middle of this cacophony of frantic chant and scream, Baraka posits silence, and not speech, as the condition of black cultural distinctiveness. In doing so, he presents a vision of black vernacular culture that does not privilege orality...
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“Times When Greater Disciplines Are Born”: The Zora Neale Hurston Revival and the Neoliberal Transformation of the Caribbean
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 117–145.
Published: 01 March 2014
... and cultural nationalist gender and sexual binds. By juxtaposing the spatiotemporalities and affects of these fantasies alongside those of Ronald Reagan’s speeches and CIA literature produced in the wake of the Grenada invasion, the essay shows how these Hurstonian fantasies of the Caribbean worked to both...
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The Vernacular Sonnet and the Resurgence of Afro-Modernism in the 1940s
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 253–273.
Published: 01 June 2015
... in this development. As a consciously synthetic form of writing, the vernacular sonnet allowed poets to combine black everyday speech and high-modernist elements without subordinating one to the other. The essay examines the transformations these idioms underwent in response to each other and traces the emergence...
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Embodied Eloquence, the Sumner Assault, and the Transatlantic Cable
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 489–518.
Published: 01 September 2010
... the transatlantic cable and that served, over the course of the decade, as a metonym for advanced telecommunications technology. In Congress, Brooks's assault was depicted by Senator Andrew Butler as a rejoinder to Sumner's speech as an improper—because prepublished and internationally distributed—abolitionist...
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“It Spoke Itself”: Women's Genius and Eccentric Politics
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 33–63.
Published: 01 March 2005
..., Number 1, March 2005. Copyright © 2005 by Duke
University Press.
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and entirely spontaneous—public speech. As she listened to a man at a
Quaker meeting oppose granting women political rights, she jumped
up without premeditation and replied with her own speech. She re-
calls...
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Mourning the Promised Land: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Automortography and the National Civil Rights Museum
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 549–577.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Thomas H. Kane Duke University 2004 Thomas H. Mourning the Promised Land: Martin Luther
Kane King Jr.’s Automortography and the National
Civil Rights Museum
When Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his final
speech on the night of 3 April 1968...
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