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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

Michael D’Alessandro
American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 589–591.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8616223
Published: 01 September 2020
... 2020 Provocative Eloquence: Theater, Violence, and Antislavery Speech in the Antebellum United States . By Laura L. Mielke . Ann Arbor : Univ. of Michigan Press . 2019 . ix, 284 pp. Cloth, $75.00 ; e-book, $59.95 . Creole Drama: Theatre and Society in Antebellum New Orleans...
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“An Extreme Sense of Protest against Everything”: Chester Himes’s Prison Novel

Thomas Alan Dichter
American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 111–140.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4326427
Published: 01 March 2018
... to contemporary sociological and popular discourses of state violence and racial liberalism. A pervasive midcentury ideology posited that rationalizing state violence could resolve both social disorder and racial injustice. I argue that Yesterday ’s representation of the excessiveness of prison violence...
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Democratic Aesthetics: Scenes of Political Violence and Anxiety in Nari Ward and Ocean Vuong

Matthew Scully
American Literature (2021) 93 (4): 685–712.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9520236
Published: 01 December 2021
...Matthew Scully Abstract By attending to art and writing that interrogates US citizenship and state violence, this essay foregrounds the structural antagonism between democracy as an instituted form of rule, which depends on inegalitarian hierarchies, and democracy’s egalitarian drive. It argues...
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Cripping the Archive: Analyzing Archival Disorder in the Yamashita Family Archives and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Letters to Memory

Hayley C. Stefan
American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 755–782.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10950792
Published: 01 December 2023
... as not only content to be examined, but also users and creators whose disorder animates alternative ways of knowing personal and state violence. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 disability Japanese American incarceration time digital humanities archives...
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Emersonian Terrorism: John Brown, Islam, and Postsecular Violence

Michael Ziser
American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 333–360.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-004
Published: 01 June 2010
..., religiously motivated group of individuals—an Emerson of the terror cell. © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Michael ​ Emersonian Terrorism: John Brown, Islam, Ziser and Postsecular Violence But let us honestly state the facts. Our America has a bad...
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“Just Like Home”: Richard Wright, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the New Deal

Susan Louise Edmunds
American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 61–86.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2395519
Published: 01 March 2014
..., Bigger also opposes and illuminates an otherwise invisible order of violence instituted by the welfare state. Wright associates this second order of violence with a disembodiment of white racial power, which he traces to the historical figure of the good white sentimental woman whose activism mediates...
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Afro-Asian Antagonism and the Long Korean War

Kodai Abe
American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 701–728.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10950766
Published: 01 December 2023
...” military than they became assimilated into the logic of the Cold War American warfare state wreaking formally deracialized violence. After the armistice—not a peace treaty—in 1953, however, the figure of the Black soldier, having acquired global visibility, faced deferred and enduring effects in Asia...
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The Scene of Eviction: Reification and Resistance in Depression-Era Narratives of Dispossession

Cody C. St. Clair
American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 497–525.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10084526
Published: 01 September 2022
.... In the writings of H. T. Tsiang and Ralph Ellison in particular, eviction constitutes a spatial politics of violence and exclusion, revealing the state’s protection of private property and bourgeois class interests over the well-being of its working-class and unemployed residents. Illustrating the sociospatial...
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“Multiplied without Number”: Lynching, Statistics, and Visualization in Ida B. Wells, Mark Twain, and W. E. B. Du Bois

Benjamin J. Murphy
American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 195–226.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9003554
Published: 01 June 2021
... is striking considering how—as we have seen—the same bloody color functioned in Du Bois’s writings to address postemancipation racial violence in that same state. This suffusion of a violent hue past slavery’s collapse belies the stark distinction otherwise suggested by the data. 24 At the same time...
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The Age of Anxiety: Patricia Highsmith, Existential Psychology, and the “Decline” Of American Naturalism

Benjamin Mangrum
American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 769–798.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3329590
Published: 01 December 2015
... psychologies flourished in the United States, and one consequence of these shifts is that violence and class The Age of Anxiety  771 conflict were increasingly construed as phenomena of the largely auton- omous arena of the psyche. Such trends in American...
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Agonistic Audiences: Comic Play in the Early National Theater

Emily Banta
American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 429–455.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8616139
Published: 01 September 2020
...Emily Banta Abstract This essay considers how rowdy theater audiences contributed to a broader cultural understanding of democratic politics in the early United States, showing how raucous and occasionally riotous theater patrons enacted a form of popular rule that was predicated on the paying...
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“Jack In, Young Pioneer”: Frontier Politics, Ecological Entrapment, and the Architecture of Cyberspace

Suzanne F. Boswell
American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 417–444.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9361251
Published: 01 September 2021
... Sprawl trilogy (1984–1988) to the Telecommunications Act of 1996, this essay argues that cyberspace’s infinite, virtual territory provided a solution to the apparent ecological crisis of the 1980s: the fear that the United States was running out of physical room to expand due to overdevelopment...
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War on Dirt: Aesthetics, Empire, and Infrastructure in the Low Nineteenth Century

Andrew Kopec
American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 361–390.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9361223
Published: 01 September 2021
..., as awesome so as to justify its ecological and social violence and, subsequently, as banal so as to render it invisible within the settler state. Oscillating between awe and irritation, the sublime and the stuplime, then, these texts both expose the rhythm of infrastructure’s long—that is, low—relation...
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Shocking Therapy: Narrating Racism’s Psychobiological Injuries in Ralph Ellison’s Factory Hospital

Cera Smith
American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 241–267.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11218886
Published: 01 June 2024
...” in the novel’s frame narrative. Scholarship on the novel thoroughly attends to the trope of the protagonist’s invisibility but regularly overlooks his corporeal presence. Invisible Man experiences social invisibility, not as a metaphor but as an embodied, somatic state initiated through racializing violence...
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Sono-Montage: Langston Hughes and Tony Schwartz Listen to Postwar New York

Lisa Hollenbach
American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 275–302.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2886127
Published: 01 June 2015
... employ montage to expose listening as a mediated and socially constructed act often intertwined with the structural violence of racial and economic discrimination. In response, both develop alternative models of collective listening, which together offer contrasting perceptual strategies for remapping...
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Sacred Geographies: Religion and Race in Women's Holy Land Writings

Molly Robey
American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 471–500.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-019
Published: 01 September 2008
... Land, especially during times of national vulnerability. In the late 1850s and 1860, when the outbreak of sectarian violence in Mount Lebanon provoked further anxiety about growing sectional and racial hostilities in the United States, women writers imagined the American woman capable of reordering...
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Racism and Violence in Current US Literary and Cultural Criticism

James Dawes
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 177–184.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1959580
Published: 01 March 2013
... with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State: If we are to embrace this university in ruins as still having something we can use in building less violent and more responsible collective American Literature, Volume 85, Number 1, March 2013 DOI 10.1215/00029831-1959580  © 2013 by Duke University...
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Enemies of All Humankind: Fictions of Legitimate Violence Gendered Asylum: Race and Violence in U.S. Law and Politics

Claudia Sadowski-Smith
American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 162–164.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8056644
Published: 01 March 2020
.... Developed by philosopher Augustine of Hippo and jurist Hugo Grotius, who both also contributed to just war theory, the concept of hostis humani generis, Schillings argues, serves as a kind of legal fiction to justify the violence a sovereign power or nation-state perpetrates in order to defend a community...
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The Prestige of Violence: American Fiction, 1962–2007 Under the Shadow: The Atomic Bomb and Cold War Narratives

Richard Purcell
American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 843–845.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3329698
Published: 01 December 2015
.... of Georgia Press. 2011. vii, 172 pp. Paper, $24.95; e-book, $24.95. Under the Shadow: The Atomic Bomb and Cold War Narratives. By David Seed. Kent, OH: Kent State Univ. Press. 2013. 312 pp. Cloth, $60.00; e-book available. Sally Bachner’s The Prestige of Violence is a daring reassessment...
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Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination Ain’t Got No Home: America’s Great Migrations and the Making of an Interracial Left Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s

Alexis Pauline Gumbs
American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 415–418.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3533434
Published: 01 June 2016
..., none of these texts escape the disastrous impacts of the flow of ideological, physical, and state violence. And the disaster is not over. ...
View articletitled, Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination Ain’t Got No Home: America’s Great Migrations and the Making of an Interracial Left Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s View PDF for article titled, Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination Ain’t Got No Home: America’s Great Migrations and the Making of an Interracial Left Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s