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Figure 4 Glimmering grains of sand surround the statue head. © Tuan Andrew Nguyen 2023. Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan, New York

Glimmering grains of sand surround the statue head. © Tuan Andrew Nguyen 20...

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in Touching Ash in Vietnamese Diasporic Aesthetics > American Literature
Published: 01 September 2023
Figure 4 Glimmering grains of sand surround the statue head. © Tuan Andrew Nguyen 2023. Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan, New York More
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Clean: Death and Desire in Samuel R. Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand

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Robert F. Reid-Pharr
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 389–411.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266099
Published: 01 June 2011
... surrounding the HIV/AIDS pandemic are similar to those surrounding the history of African enslavement. In particular, Reid-Pharr criticizes the all-too-common assumption that the disasters of both slavery and AIDS have been a necessary precursor to the modernization—and maturation—of both blacks and “queers...
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Dread

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Jennifer C. James
American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 689–696.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8780899
Published: 01 December 2020
...Jennifer C. James Abstract Reinterpreting nineteenth-century philosopher Søren Kierkegaard’s theory of “dread,” this essay situates the fear surrounding COVID-19 within a larger historical framework to consider the affective dimension of the virus’s emergence for African Americans. Copyright ©...
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As She Lay Dying: Locating the Gothic in Kaui Hart Hemmings’s The Descendants

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Amber P. Hodge
American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 227–253.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9003568
Published: 01 June 2021
... plantation inheritances from the southernmost US state, Hawai‘i, and the southeastern United States. Ultimately, I argue that vestiges of the wrongs borne of their plantation origins, in both the southeastern United States and Hawai‘i, manifest across gothic forms in distress surrounding land and legacy...
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Talking to Bessie: Richard Wright's Domestic Servants

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Julieann Veronica Ulin
American Literature (2013) 85 (1): 151–176.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1959571
Published: 01 March 2013
... oral history of these spaces and in a novel that should transform the critical conversation surrounding Wright and women. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 References Cook Cara . 1940 . Confidential. Report of Committee on 'Street Corner Markets' (Including Government and Civic...
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Revising “Harriet Jacobs” for 1865

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Anna Stewart
American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 701–724.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-042
Published: 01 December 2010
... and make a life for themselves. Stewart reads the revised selection from Jacobs's narrative as a case study of core tensions in Child's Reconstruction rhetoric and, more broadly, the anxious rhetoric surrounding the postemancipation status of African Americans in 1865. In The Freedmen's Book , Child...
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Cripping the Archive: Analyzing Archival Disorder in the Yamashita Family Archives and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Letters to Memory

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Hayley C. Stefan
American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 755–782.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10950792
Published: 01 December 2023
... experience of incarceration out of chronological order, encouraging new connections across a massive collection of materials: letters, photographs, federal surveillance documents, paintings, sermons, and other ephemera surrounding World War II Japanese American incarceration. Their respective acts...
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Antebellum Apathy: A Study of Indifference in Melville

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David Faflik
American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 529–556.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4160882
Published: 01 September 2017
... in his work. In Melville’s writings, we discover an alternative affective register for the characteristic emotionalism of US literary culture in the decades surrounding the nation’s Civil War. Meanwhile, apathy continues to pose a challenge to the emotionally implicated modes of reading, reception...
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Houses of Contention: Tar Baby and Essence

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Susan Edmunds
American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 613–641.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-6994829
Published: 01 September 2018
...Susan Edmunds Abstract This essay argues that Essence magazine provides a crucial intertext for understanding Toni Morrison’s engagement in Tar Baby with the political debates that surrounded the “Black Is Beautiful” slogan in the black power era and her use of the Tar Baby story to dramatize...
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The Shining and the Media Conglomerate; or, How All Work and No Play Made Jack a Creative Artist in the 1970s

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Palmer Rampell
American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 151–182.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7335385
Published: 01 March 2019
... with the Overlook Hotel, the larger, phantasmal structure of capital that surrounds him. In King’s version the hotel represents publishing and other aspects of the literary field, whereas Kubrick identifies it more closely with Warner Brothers, which distributed and financed the film. Understanding The Shining...
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“He Fell Just Short of Being News”: Gatsby 's Tabloid Shadows

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Christopher P. Wilson
American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 119–149.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1540968
Published: 01 March 2012
...Christopher P. Wilson Wilson's essay examines The Great Gatsby 's depiction, displacement, and appropriation of the urban tabloid journalism of its day. By offering a direct look at the rhetorical forms and visual cues of the tabloids surrounding F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel—and in particular...
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Wondrous Strange: Eco-Sickness, Emotion, and The Echo Maker

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Heather Houser
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 381–408.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587386
Published: 01 June 2012
... environmental investment and scientific interest. In line with much environmental writing, the novel aspires to increase readers’ awareness of their surroundings as a way to promote ecological protection. However, it also rethinks the trajectories of wonder under the pressures of neurological injury. The novel...
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Seriality and Settlement: Southworth, Lippard, and The Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley

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Melissa Gniadek
American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 31–59.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2395510
Published: 01 March 2014
... in relation to issues of empire surrounding the US-Mexico war, the essay refocuses attention on broader discourses of settler colonialism. Attending to the recurrence embedded in the ostensibly linear forms of these works, and to images in which they confront US settlement of lands that contain other...
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Colored Empires in the 1930s: Black Internationalism, the U.S. Black Press, and George Samuel Schuyler

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Etsuko Taketani
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 121–149.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-071
Published: 01 March 2010
... that gained global currency in the media surround of the mid-1930s, triggered by the rumored alliance of two colored empire-nations, Ethiopia and Japan. Black Empire , narrated in the first person by one Carl Slater, ex-reporter for the Harlem Blade , presents a rendition of race war that both participates...
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Figure 2 Honoré Daumier, “Les sprites” (Le Charivari 1865). Black-and-white drawing of a female medium who is looking upward with her mouth ajar to channel an invisible spirit through writing. The medium is positioned to the left-hand side of the image and is surrounded by male observers. Two older men stand at the forefront of the image and speak to one another. As the caption explains, the man to the left says, “Quiet! . . . My daughter is in communication with Dante! . . . ” Photograph courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Honoré Daumier, “Les sprites” ( Le Charivari 1865). Black-and-white drawin...

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in Extra Consciousness, Extra Fingers: Automatic Writing and Disabled Authorship > American Literature
Published: 01 September 2023
Figure 2 Honoré Daumier, “Les sprites” ( Le Charivari 1865). Black-and-white drawing of a female medium who is looking upward with her mouth ajar to channel an invisible spirit through writing. The medium is positioned to the left-hand side of the image and is surrounded by male observers. Two More
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Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe

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Edwin J. Barton
American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 418.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-2-418
Published: 01 June 2001
... the legends surrounding Poe’s demise. The most persistent of these is ‘‘that Poe was captured by an electioneering band [in Baltimore], ‘cooped’ [imprisoned inacellar],drugged,draggedtothepolls,andafterhavingvotedthe 6363 AMERICAN...
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Brief Mention

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American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 229–240.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-79-1-229
Published: 01 March 2007
... similarities: both women were daughters of Scot- tish immigrants and Loyalists, were separated from their families during the war, and were imprisoned for property disputes with their husbands. These complementary texts highlight many of the issues surrounding female agency and the political economy...
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Frank O'Hara Nude with Boots: Queer Ekphrasis and the Statuesque Poet

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Brian Glavey
American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 781–806.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2007-039
Published: 01 December 2007
... in 1951 as part of James Ensor’s first major American exposi- tion. In it, the painter’s face is completely surrounded by masks, enact- ing a complex understanding of the revelatory nature of portraiture. Are we to see Ensor’s unconcealed features as a mark of contrast with his carnivalesque...
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Brief Mention

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American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 431–440.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-80-2-431
Published: 01 June 2008
....” Throughout, Bird links Twain’s metaphorics with issues surround- ing race, gender, humor, and dreams. Twain’s performance of the figural even extended beyond the page, Bird suggests, arguing that the pseudonym Mark Twain was less an alter ego and more a “metaphorized self.” Gender Play in Mark...
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Brief Mention

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American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 419–428.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-78-2-419
Published: 01 June 2006
... about her past or giving conflicting stories in order to deceive a continually prying public. With access to many new archival and personal papers, Unrue seeks to rectify the historical inaccuracies surrounding Porter’s biography, probing beneath the screen of her public deceptions to find...
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