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How Literature Understands Poverty: A Genealogy of the Kitchen Table
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 585–594.
Published: 01 September 2022
.... If you’re poor it’s a constant thing, everyday, everyday. In some ways it’s almost more constant than race . . . ” —Beverly Smith, “Across the Kitchen Table: A Sister-to-Sister Dialogue” ( 1981 ) In response to the implicit inquiry driving this special issue—how does American literature understand...
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Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life, and the Turning World; Counter-revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945–1960
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 201–203.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Philip Beidler © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life, and the Turning World . By Bonnie Costello. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2008. xvii, 205 pp. $29.95. Counter-revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945...
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Colored Empires in the 1930s: Black Internationalism, the U.S. Black Press, and George Samuel Schuyler
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 121–149.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Etsuko Taketani First in the chronological table of world affairs relevant to any argument concerning the black internationalism of the 1930s is the Italo-Ethiopian War. George Samuel Schuyler, then the most prominent black journalist in the United States, stood in for international-minded black...
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Beyond Protest: Voice and Exit in Contemporary American Poetry
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 841–870.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Seth McKelvey Abstract In liberal political economy, voice (voting, complaining, etc.) and exit (dissociating, boycotting, etc.) are the two primary feedback mechanisms for improving large organizations. When it comes to the political state, however, exit is off the table: no one leaves the state...
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The Image of Absence: Archival Silence, Data Visualization, and James Hemings
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 661–688.
Published: 01 December 2013
... of Hemings’s archival trace with Jefferson’s own charts and tables, Klein demonstrates how we must rethink the empiricist epistemology of the visible that endures to this day. After a brief discussion of data visualization as it relates to the construction of race, Klein turns to the issue of labor...
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Touching Ash in Vietnamese Diasporic Aesthetics
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American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 539–567.
Published: 01 September 2023
... achievement in which she manages to overcome her pyrophobia to deftly wield fire for her own purposes. On Earth ’s penultimate chapter houses the novel’s climax, presented as Little Dog’s memory of a table in a room on fire. The room does not burn down in one quick instance. Rather, Little Dog remembers...
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The Digital Afterlives of This Bridge Called My Back : Woman of Color Feminism, Digital Labor, and Networked Pedagogy
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 255–278.
Published: 01 June 2017
... Table. In fact, writing just in the wake of the 2013 buyout, Fink and Miller ( 2014 , 616) speculated that the site’s most marginalized networks, including those of trans and queer people, would not “survive” Yahoo!’s monetization, as advertising and mainstream exposure could drive the site to downplay...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 611–635.
Published: 01 September 2010
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whether the university is paying every department what it “earns”
through teaching, or whether it is giving various departments more or
less than what they might expect for their teaching effort.
The next figure offers one example of such a calculation from the
year 2001–2 (see table 1...
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A scene of automatic writing in the mid-nineteenth century. A person wearin...
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in Extra Consciousness, Extra Fingers: Automatic Writing and Disabled Authorship
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Published: 01 September 2023
Figure 1 A scene of automatic writing in the mid-nineteenth century. A person wearing a suit is seated at a round table with a feather pen in their right hand and a paper beneath their arm. Two spirit-like figures place their hands near the writer’s head. The figure on the left is a woman
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Revising “Harriet Jacobs” for 1865
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American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 701–724.
Published: 01 December 2010
... was ultimately framed to encourage self-
esteem and character along with reading and writing, the book’s very
material presence bore out such goals as well. Indeed, the table of con-
tents visually honors black achievement for its readers by noting that
“the names of the colored authors are marked...
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What the Afterlife of SCUM Can Teach Us about Autotheory
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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 677–703.
Published: 01 December 2022
... by intervening in the publishing landscape itself. Kitchen Table Press, which Audre Lorde and Barbara Smith founded in 1980, became a hub for supporting and distributing autoethnographic writing (Smith 1989 : 11). Kitchen Table published many key precursors to autotheory that were rooted in the aesthetic...
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American Literary Realism and Nervous “Reflexion”
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American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 715–745.
Published: 01 December 2002
... ‘‘impressions from one retina to the other 23 More
grandly, in The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), Holmes declares
that physiologists are becoming more and more interested in ‘‘the
automatic and involuntary actions of the mind and then, invoking
William Carpenter, he notes that such automatisms...
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Domesticity beyond Sentiment: Edith Wharton, Decoration, and Divorce
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American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 479–507.
Published: 01 September 2011
... them. As we will see, these
images also functioned to rebut the visual precedent set by another
popular guide to interior design, Clarence Cook’s The House Beautiful:
Essays on Beds and Tables, Stools and Candlesticks (1877).
What I find in Wharton’s corpus is thus a bifurcation...
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“Multiplied without Number”: Lynching, Statistics, and Visualization in Ida B. Wells, Mark Twain, and W. E. B. Du Bois
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American Literature (2021) 93 (2): 195–226.
Published: 01 June 2021
... in its yearly necrology tables initiated a national shift to viewing lynching as an unjustified and specifically anti-Black crime. 2 The Tribune ’s statistics spurred early mainstream journalism on lynching and were featured in the first sociological study of the topic. 3 Although mob murder has...
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The Cod and the Whale: Melville in the Time of Extinction
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 851–879.
Published: 01 December 2017
... to a vision of a “red hell” and “an argument for the pit” (471, 470). The Try Pots Inn both looks and smells far more appealing than the tryworks on the Pequod . “A warm, savory steam” emanates from the kitchen, and when the chowder appears on the table Ishmael’s description of the dish—which is marked...
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Writing and Democracy in the Early United States
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 571–584.
Published: 01 September 2020
... combatants in a methodical ping-pong match, the opposed members took their turns at the table of party loyalty and repeated statements about what it meant to be persecuted or “not above the law.” The question of the law seemed so entwined with the question of democracy that it became a dizzying exercise...
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Brief Mention
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 213–220.
Published: 01 March 2015
... of
poverty in the picture books of Eve Bunting.
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The Children’s Table: Childhood Studies and the Humanities. Ed. Anna Mae
Duane. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2013. viii, 265 pp. Cloth, $69.95; paper,
$24.95; e-book, $24.95...
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Announcement
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 891–893.
Published: 01 December 2009
... Literature
new dimensions of existence, from creation stories of the past to speculations
about the future, science fiction, fantasy, and myth have variously captured
the human imagination, making the familiar strange and the strange inevi-
table. From the vantage point of the twenty-first century...
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What Do We Critique When We Critique Technology?
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 305–319.
Published: 01 June 2023
... toward different kinds of critique at all kinds of levels and scales (see table 1 ; note the large swathes occupied by technocritical approaches today). That is, all except a very few. Practices, techniques, and the machines themselves—all of which are rather inconvenient bogeymen for public-facing...
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Charles Brockden Brown and the Conundrum of Complicity
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American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 665–693.
Published: 01 December 2016
... (a scenario that happens to evoke the climax of Wieland as well as Brown’s short fiction piece, “A Case of Murder” [1850]). Someone sets dinner knives around a table before a meal, and during the meal a diner picks up one of the knives and stabs another diner, killing him (Feinberg 1970 , 166). Normally...
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