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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 204–205.
Published: 01 March 2005
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Nebraska Press. 2003. x, 233 pp. $50.00.
Gambling and Survival in Native North America. By Paul Pasquaretta. Tucson: Univ.
of Arizona Press. 2003. xviii, 202 pp. $40.00.
Toward a Native American Critical Theory attempts a thorough interroga-
tion of the critical works of Paula Gunn Allen, Craig...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 183–185.
Published: 01 March 2008
... © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Sucking Salt: Caribbean Women Writers, Migration, and Survival . By Meredith M. Gadsby. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2006. vii, 225 pp. $39.95. Caribbean Women Writers and Globalization: Fictions of Independence . By Helen C. Scott...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 333–359.
Published: 01 June 2009
... the Vanishing American, who, in the national imaginary, vanished into haiku's province: nature. And yet Native American poets (Gerald Vizenor, William Oandasan) have also written haiku for precisely the opposite reason: for resistance and survival. What we discover in the varied uses of haiku among Japanese...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 463–466.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Elizabeth Archuleta Native Liberty: Natural Reason and Cultural Survivance . By Gerald Vizenor. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2009. ix, 321 pp. Paper, $30.00. Writing Indian, Native Conversations . By John Lloyd Purdy. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2009. xvii, 282 pp. $45.00...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 827–830.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Dean Rader How Did Poetry Survive? The Making of Modern American Verse . By Newcomb John Timberman . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois Press . 2012 . xi, 338 pp . $75.00 . Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys: Poverty, Labor, and the Making of Modern American Poetry . By Marsh John...
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Published: 01 September 2019
Figure 1 Cedrick Tamasala, How My Grandfather Survived , 2015, installation view, Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise , SculptureCenter, New York, 2017. Chocolate. 15 by 8.3 by 9.4 inches (38 by 21 by 24 cm). Courtesy the Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 791–798.
Published: 01 December 2020
... existence like the one predicted in Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1974 novel The Dispossessed . Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 apocalypse dystopia survival In a critical scene in The Matrix , Cypher (Joe Pantoliano) journeys solo into the Matrix to meet secretly with Agent Smith (Hugo...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (4): 643–670.
Published: 01 December 2024
... subjects made in order to survive the material deprivation and other brutal constraints of enslavement. In dialogue with this scholarship, this article proposes a different view of theft as a method not simply of surviving on unfavorable terms but of redefining the art of living. In particular, it suggests...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 443–469.
Published: 01 September 2008
... to demystify rather than reproduce the slave oligarchy's cultural authority. Through this means, the novel helped the Republicans to set the stakes of political victory as the survival of a Northern subject capable of keeping its distance from the residual standards and ideological reflexes whose effect...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 29–56.
Published: 01 March 2017
...), an operatic cantata that until now has never been examined. In this text, Johnson incorporates and evolves the Old Negro into a contemporary literary tradition that challenges the racial violence of Jim Crow and celebrates black survival. References Andrade Heather . 2006 . “ Revising Critical...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 309–341.
Published: 01 June 2020
..., and struggles for survival. Then, in the 1960s and 1970s, the Alianza Federal de Mercedes revived the Pueblo Olvidado, an imagined environment saturated with laws, treaties, and cultural traditions. Despite many differences, both generations shared a desire to settle on and profit from Native lands. But though...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 595–622.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., and cofounder of Brothertown, a political experiment in Indigenous survivance in the face of settler colonial incursion during the late colonial era and the early republic. For Occom and his fellow Algonquians, reading and writing, to say nothing of readerly pleasure, were not foregone conclusions. Reading...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 733–761.
Published: 01 December 2022
... theorizes ambivalent contingency —a mitigated agency and constrained privilege from within institutional contingency that reflects contradicting intersections of power within and beyond the individual—as a strategy for surviving the institution without reproducing its logics of exclusion. dsishii...
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 297–324.
Published: 01 June 2024
... texts produce direct sensory effects. Scott Smith’s The Ruins (2006) is a horror novel, William Goldman’s Marathon Man (1974) a thriller, and Aron Ralston’s Between a Rock and a Hard Place (2004) (film: 127 Hours ) an adventure-survival memoir. Reading pain in each of three triple texts—book, film...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 399–438.
Published: 01 September 2022
... insights into the rigid constraints upon acceptable disability presentation in this era, as well as the creative choices made by veterans who peddled literature in order to survive. Whether to prevent such criticism or out of a sense of self-regard, mendicant narrators insistently cast their activity...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 347–375.
Published: 01 June 2018
.... The comic thus models the temporalities of surviving trauma. The feminist temporalities of survivorship here also model utopian futures that are homosocial, queer, often ecstatic, and resistant to normative scripts of what should give women comfort. Undergirded by a radical feminist perspective that sees...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 585–612.
Published: 01 September 2018
... represent an attempt to refigure poetic labor as a collective act, and I explore the implications that this has for the survival of the lyric poem and lyric modes of address. This article devotes sustained attention to a long-neglected period of Hughes’s career and provides a new reading of the Soviet avant...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 338–341.
Published: 01 June 2021
... length. These narratives of disaster or atrocity distill human purpose to pure survival, thereby providing a (more desirable?) substitute for what many experience as the inescapable ennui and alienation of modern life. Caring for a child at the beginning of the end of the world recasts survival...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 649–652.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Figure 1 Cedrick Tamasala, How My Grandfather Survived , 2015, installation view, Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise , SculptureCenter, New York, 2017. Chocolate. 15 by 8.3 by 9.4 inches (38 by 21 by 24 cm). Courtesy the Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 811–839.
Published: 01 December 2019
... for a new purpose or modifies material goods to survive, continually revising local and national affiliation. It is a move away from the fixity of sovereign space to belonging to a current of shifting state structures, and it is most visible in the reconceptualization of gender roles as a strategy...
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